When Art Meets Nature

For the first time, the Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts and the National Gallery Singapore have come together to present When Art Meets Nature, a children’s art exhibition open from July 2 to November 9, 2025, at the Taoyuan Children’s Art Center. Interactive installations, audiovisual works, multi-sensory explorations, and immersive environments present a view of nature through the eyes of five artists from Taiwan and Singapore. Centered around themes of environment, ecology, and sustainability, the show reimagines an environmentally sustainable world, inviting families to reflect on the relationship between humans and nature.

“As an institution located in Taoyuan, the gateway to the nation, collaboration with leading international museums has been a key outreach strategy for Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts since our establishment in 2019. This partnership with the National Gallery Singapore was born from a shared and unwavering commitment to promoting art education for children, first initiated during an international forum on children’s education in 2022. Since then, we have been building a strong relationship of trust.”

—Lin Yung-Neng, Director of Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts

When Art Meets Nature is curated by Peng Hsiung, the in-house curator at the Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts, in collaboration with Annabelle Tan, Elaine Chan, and Wang Tingting, learning curators from National Gallery Singapore.

Artworks Inspired by Water and Hydrological Landscapes

Several artists in the exhibition draw their inspiration from Taoyuan’s local aquatic landscapes. Singaporean sound artist Zul Mahmod takes the local reservoir and its network of irrigation canals as a point of departure, imagining an underwater soundscape inspired by local water ecologies in “Beneath Silence, a Pulse” (2025). Rooted in photographic fieldwork along the Dahan River, Taiwanese artist Chen Po-I presents “River Lab” (2025), an educational project exploring how hydrological change is deeply entangled with human activity. In “Where the River Runs” (2025), Hsu Yenting weaves together sound, storytelling, and local field research to introduce children to indigenous ways of living in harmony with nature, revealing the wisdom embedded in coexisting with the environment.

Immersive Explorations of Forests, Habitats, and Ecological Diversity

Other participating artists focus on forest and habitat environments, creating immersive settings that encourage active exploration. Tan Zi Xi creates three interactive dome-shaped spaces that guide children to learn about ecological diversity and habitat forms in “The Invisible Forests” (2025). Through vivid illustration and tactile elements, Soh Ee Shaun transforms an independent gallery facing the nearby Chintan Park into a restorative space for playful imagination in “Peace Forest” (2025). 

Forums and Family Programs: Deepening Ecological Awareness Through Art

A thoughtfully curated series of parent-child educational outreach programs will take place throughout the exhibition period, including hands-on textile-making workshops, guided walks, and picture book storytelling sessions. The exhibition also features a learning area developed in connection with the collections of both institutions designed to foster a deeper connection between nature and art through direct participation.

For more details on the exhibition and programs, visit tmofa.tycg.gov.tw. 

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