West Central District, Tainan · Artist-run art space

Soil Space

Name: Soil Space
Address: 3F, No. 56, Lane 64, Section 2, Minquan Road, West Central District, Tainan, West Central District, Tainan, TW

A third-floor room in a lane off Minquan Road, showing one exhibition at a time and closed Wednesdays and Thursdays.

A small sculpture roughly seventeen centimetres high; a pink, gray and orange body carries a lion's face at each end, its surface covered in fine ridges and mineral flecks. — Qiāomǎoyuán — Lion
Chan Yung-jen · 2026 · Resin, mica, quartz and pigment, 17 × 20 × 15 cm
Qiāomǎoyuán — Lion. Resin, mica, quartz and pigment, 17 × 20 × 15 cm. Two outward-looking faces share one ridged, mineral-flecked body. Artwork: Chan Yung-jen. Image: Soil Space / Chan Yung-jen. Editorial use.
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Right now it holds Chan Yung-jen's Accretions of Time: two sculptures barely larger than household objects on narrow wall shelves, above a granular floor-sized field. The exhibition catalogue is available by request.

Soil Space sits inside Lane 64 of Minquan Road Section 2, on the third floor. The room is small enough to take one exhibition slowly and to ask about the work.

Hours are Friday to Tuesday, 11:00–19:00, closed Wednesday and Thursday. From Tainan Station, bus 77 to Minzu Road leaves a short walk into Lane 64.

A crimson block of a sculpture with pine trunks, branches and low park relief wrapping around its sides and upper edge. — Qiāomǎoyuán — Pine
Chan Yung-jen · 2026 · Resin, mica, quartz and pigment, 19 × 22 × 20 cm
Qiāomǎoyuán — Pine. Resin, mica, quartz and pigment, 19 × 22 × 20 cm. Pine trunks, branches and park relief wrap around a crimson block. Artwork: Chan Yung-jen. Image: Soil Space / Chan Yung-jen. Editorial use.
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A visitor stands at a white wall looking at two small sculptures on narrow shelves, with granular brown material and a larger installation covering the floor below. — The lion and pine at human scale
Chan Yung-jen · 2026 · Soil Space, Tainan
A visitor faces the two works on narrow wall shelves above the larger installation. Artwork: Chan Yung-jen. Image published by Soil Space / Tu Xing Studio. Editorial use.
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Granular brown material covers the gallery floor, with a tall curved white fragment standing near the centre and smaller forms scattered around it. — Accretions of Time, installation view
Chan Yung-jen · 2026 · Soil Space, Tainan
Installation view, Accretions of Time. Granular brown material covers the floor beneath a tall white architectural fragment and smaller forms. Artwork: Chan Yung-jen. Image published by Soil Space / Tu Xing Studio. Editorial use.
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Get there

3F, No. 56, Lane 64, Section 2, Minquan Road, West Central District, Tainan ↗

Directions in Google Maps ↗

Public transport

From Tainan Station, take bus 77 to Minzu Road, then walk into Lane 64 off Minquan Road Section 2. The gallery is on the third floor and closes Wednesday and Thursday; ask the space directly for the exhibition catalogue.

Sources

Soil Space: Accretions of Time exhibition page ↗ — Dates, hours, address, visitor information, and the exhibition catalogue

Related writing

The Lion Looks Both Ways
One small sculpture has two lion faces, and you only meet the second by walking to the other end. Beside it, a pine grows around a crimson block. Close looking, in a room you can finish.

Artists

Chan Yung-jen
Sculpture, mold-making, resin and mineral materials