Event Title-
Arts Shuttle Series Exhibition – Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Olafur Eliasson: Your Curious Journey

Event Description-
This summer, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum presents Your Curious Journey, the first large-scale solo exhibition in Taiwan by Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. The exhibition explores themes of perception, ecology, and non-human perspectives, creating a sensory journey that begins with you.

Here, a “journey” is not only about movement but also symbolizes an exploration of thought and senses. It invites audiences to heighten their environmental awareness, sparking resonance through everyday details and awakening a deeper sense of curiosity and self-awareness toward the world.

This event offers both Chinese and English guided tours, taking you on an imaginative and poetic artistic journey.

About the Exhibition-

Olafur Eliasson: Your curious journey reflects on the three-decade long career of Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. Featuring 17 works that span installation, painting, sculpture, and photography, the exhibition brings Eliasson's artistic practice to the Asia-Pacific region.

The concept of "journey" extends beyond the physical movement of visitors and artworks; it also represents a process of thought and exploration. Eliasson engages with natural elements, light, color, and movement to heighten our awareness of our surroundings. His works are not static objects, but dynamic entities that are activated only through the viewer's participation – encouraging us to reconsider conventional ways of seeing and to create shared experiences within space. The exhibition invites visitors to engage with the unseen aspects of everyday life, fostering new perspectives on the self, the museum, and the world.

Created in collaboration with Studio Olafur Eliasson, Your curious journey is part of a travelling exhibition that will also be shown at Singapore Art Museum, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki in New Zealand, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Museum MACAN in Jakarta, and MCAD Manila - Museum of Contemporary Art and Design.

About the Artist -

The works of Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967) explore the relevance of art in the world at large. Since 1997, his wide-ranging solo shows – featuring installations, paintings, sculptures, photography, and film – have appeared in major museums around the globe.

Eliasson is internationally-renowned for his exhibitions and public installations that challenge the way we perceive and co-create our environments. In 2003, he made 'The weather project', a glowing indoor sun shrouded in mist at Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in London. In 2008, Eliasson constructed four expansive artificial waterfalls along the Manhattan and Brooklyn shorelines for 'The New York City Waterfalls'. He has also explored art's potential to address climate change: for 'Ice Watch', he brought large blocks of free-floating glacial ice to the city centres of Copenhagen in 2014, Paris in 2015, and London in 2018. Passers-by could touch fragments of the Greenlandic glacial ice and witness its fragility as it disappeared before them. On the occasion of the 2020 German Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Eliasson created 'Earth Speakr' together with children around the world and support from the German Federal Foreign Office; the global artwork invites kids to speak up for the planet. In 2022, Eliasson opened 'Shadows travelling on the sea of the day', a cluster of large site-specific mirror pavilions that draw attention to the delicate habitat of the Qatari desert outside Doha.

In 2012, Eliasson founded the social business Little Sun and contributed to its growth until 2024. He and Sebastian Behmann founded Studio Other Spaces in 2014, an office for art and architecture. In 2019, Eliasson was named UNDP Goodwill Ambassador for climate action. In 2023, he received the Praemium Imperiale from the Japanese imperial family for outstanding contributions to the development, promotion, and progress of the arts.
Located in Berlin, Studio Olafur Eliasson comprises a large team of craftspeople, architects, archivists, researchers, administrators, cooks, art historians, and specialised technicians.

Event Date-
Friday, September 12, 2025
Chinese Session: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
English Session: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Check-in Time-
Chinese Session: 10:00 AM
English Session: 2:00 PM
Please arrive at the meeting point on time.

Meeting Point-
1st Floor Lobby, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
(No. 181, Sec. 3, Zhongshan North Road, Zhongshan District, Taipei City)

Event Schedule

Chinese Session (10:00 AM – 12:00 PM)

• 10:00–10:10 Check-in at the museum lobby

• 10:10–10:20 Headcount confirmation & ticket purchase

• 10:20–12:00 Special exhibition guided tour + free visit

English Session (2:00 PM – 4:00 PM)

• 2:00–2:10 Check-in at the museum lobby

• 2:10–2:20 Headcount confirmation & ticket purchase

• 2:20–4:00 Special exhibition guided tour + free visit

Capacity-

• Chinese Session: 30 participants (Applicants from the 31st onward will be placed on the waiting list. Please refer to the registration notes for details.)

• English Session: 30 participants (Applicants from the 31st onward will be placed on the waiting list. Please refer to the registration notes for details.)

Registration-

• For Chinese Session:Click here

• For English Session: Click here

Registration Notes:

1. This activity is free of charge. All costs (NT$30 per group ticket) are fully subsidized for each participant by the Bilingual Learning Program for College Students.

2. A waiting list will be available. If a confirmed participant cannot attend, a waiting list participant will be notified. Thank you for your understanding.

3. Please be punctual, as tickets will be purchased on-site based on the headcount at check-in. Latecomers will not be accommodated.

4. No meals will be provided during the event; please make your own arrangements.

5. Event photos will be taken on-site. If you do not wish to be photographed, please inform the organizers in advance.

Contact Person:
Center for General Education – Ms. Wu
Phone: (02) 2730-1182
Email: yachin0930@mail.ntust.edu.tw