Taipei Artist Village (TAV) & Treasure Hill Artist Village (THAV)
Since its foundation, Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Taipei aligns with international artist-in-residence sites, provides artists from both Taiwan and abroad with residence opportunities, and creates an open platform that also acts as a web of solid, international connections, drawing in diverse communities in various disciplines to exchange and broaden each other’s perspectives.
After two years of postponement affected by the Covid-19 Pandemic, the 2024 AIR Taipei Open Call provides a unique artist-in-residence site for domestic and international artists to apply: the Treasure Hill Artist Village, a historical architectural community located by the Gongguan waterside. Additionally, AIR Taipei builds a partnership with the Puppetry Art Center of Taipei, encouraging international artists to apply the opportunity to explore Taiwanese puppetry art and culture; the selected artist is provided with resources and supports from both institutions.
On the other hand, AIR Taipei has collaborated with its international partner institutions to support domestic artists to connect with the global art scenes and provide a return flight ticket, accommodation, studio space, and allowance in the International Artist Exchange Project. In 2024, AIR Taipei will continue its partnership with Tokyo Arts and Space and BankART 1929 in Japan, the Silpakorn University in Thailand, the City of Munich in Germany (DAC+AOA+GI), the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and Ciné Tapis Rouge in Canada, expecting to facilitate more diverse interactions between artists and art spaces, generating greater prosperity.
Exhibition, artist talk, open studio, workshop.
- TAV features living quarters and studios (33-46 m2) for 12 artists, as well as a dance studio, a piano room, a dark room, a photo studio, a wood workshop, a recording studio, an exhibition space and two multifunctional halls
- THAV has 14 studios, where either Taiwanese or international artists can work and live, as well as a rehearsal room, a wood workshop, exhibition spaces and outdoor exhibition spaces
- Located in the city’s government office district, TAV is a four-story building renovated as part of ongoing efforts to reutilize vacant spaces. Its function is not merely to exhibit artworks, but to be a point of convergence for artists. In addition to office spaces and three multifunctional exhibition halls, TAV features living quarters and studios for 13 artists, as well as a dance studio, piano room and dark room, providing a spectrum of uses for resident artists.
- Nearest Train station: Taipei Main Station; By MRT: Shandao Temple Station Exit 1 or Taipei Main Station Exit M2.
- THAV is a unique artist residency located in a historical community of Taipei’s Gongguan district. Illegal shanties, erected mainly in the 1960s and 1970s, meander up the natural slope, haphazard and intricate, forming one of Taiwan’s unique visual landmarks.
- By MRT: Gongguan Station Exit 1