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Heavyweight Directors from Six Countries Came to Taiwan to Share their Experiences of Connecting with the World through Art

The "2024 Fubon Art Museum International Directors Forum" was held today (27th) and invited directors from major art museums and museums in the Asia-Pacific region, including Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, India, Australia, etc., to share their respective breakthroughs and innovative changes, as well as the common challenges faced by art museums and museums. The forum seeks to explore the possibilities of co-operation and innovative development among international art museums, to create a blueprint for an international arts and culture co-prosperity circle through experience exchange, and to build a key platform for linking up global art museums and gaining insights into related trends.

Speakers at the "2024 Fubon Art Museum International Directors Forum" included Eugene Tan, Director of the National Gallery of Singapore (NGS) and Director of the Singapore Art Museum (SAM), Mami Kataoka, Director of the Mori Art Museum (MAM) and Director of the National Centre for Art Research (NCAR), Japan, Kamini Sawhney, Director of the Museum of Art and Photography (MAP), India and Lisa Havilah, CEO of the Powerhouse, Australia, Eun-ju Choi, Director of the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Korea and Philip Tinari, Director and Group CEO of UCCA, China. The forum was attended by six key art museums and museums directors from the Asia-Pacific region to gather together to publish the related topics of "Enterprises embrace the challenges-competition and opportunities of globalization and decentralization of art museums".

Maggie Ueng, Director of Fubon Art Museum, said that the international directors forum, as a prelude to the official opening of the Fubon Art Museum, announces that the Fubon Art Museum, in the face of cooperation in the global cultural landscape, proposes a structural model to link up the world to establish an international connection and deepen exchanges, and organizes and weaves together the wonderful perspectives and strategies of the global art museums/museums. It also echoes the Fubon Art Museum's goal of introducing Taiwan to the world and promoting Taiwan as a cultural hub, and its conceptual positioning and international capabilities of continuing to open dialogue and move toward a common global vision, demonstrating the ambitious mission of Asia's entrepreneurial art museums to embrace challenges and create a new era. Let Taiwan see the world, and let the world see Taiwan. In the future, the international directors forum will also break the limitations of borders and invite more international art museums outside the Asia-Pacific region to participate.

For the past 27 years, the Fubon Art Foundation has been continuously promoting art, culture, and aesthetic education. This year, with the birth of a new field in the Fubon A25, the Fubon Art Museum will adhere to the original intention of "sharing" and promote the concept and mission of art education and aesthetic life. With the design of a natural light filled art museum by the Pulitzer Prize winner and international architectural master Renzo Piano, the Fubon Art Museum will serve as a vehicle for art creation and sharing to bring the aesthetics of art and affluence to the people of Taiwan and enrich their daily lives in a more intimate way. On the eve of the opening, a series of warm-up activities will be held, including the 13th term “Very Fun Park” Contemporary Art Exhibition, which will be held in Xinyi District, symbolizing the continuity of the spirit from a wall-less art museum to a physical art museum, in the hope of injecting the Xinyi business district with a sense of aesthetics, so that the feelings of beauty and happiness can pervade the air of urban life, becoming the most important source of nourishment, and filling every day of life with hope through the use of imagination and the embracing of Art Everyday!