Past
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Koji Kamamoto：Fragmentary Records
20 Mar - 12 Apr 2025 BACK_Y This exhibition presents the 'painterly sculptures' of Japanese artist Koji Kamamoto, created using traditional metalworking techniques. Rather than applying paint, he utilizes the natural colors of metal to construct his compositions, allowing his works to exist in the space between painting and sculpture, forming a distinct visual language. Kamamoto’s subjects... Read more -
Naoya Inose：Metronome
20 Mar - 12 Apr 2025 BACK_Y The exhibition 'Metronome ' by Japanese artist Naoya Inose explores the theme of time. On Earth, time flows in a linear manner, and as it does, the timeline of human existence unfolds alongside it. The journey begins with 'Into the Metronome, ' a work inspired by the cave in Alice... Read more -
Wang Chun-Chieh: Insignificant
20 Mar - 12 Apr 2025 YIRI ARTS 'Lying on a pink sofa, I watch events from around the world on the internet, with occasional pop-up ads for pornography. Outside, the neighbor’s free-range dogs bark wildly; they bite anyone they see. An ambulance rushes by, carrying someone who has been hit by a car.' Life seems to be... Read more -
Soh Souen Solo Exhibition
20 Mar - 12 Apr 2025 YIRI ARTS Soh Souen：Sometimes you hurt. Sometimes you get hurt. Yet still you keep looking for a tender relationship with the world. Soh Souen has been presenting paintings, installations, and performance that examine phenomena related to lives through the relationships with the body not only in Japan but also oversea. He's been... Read more
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Evi Pangestu：Overthinking Squares
15 Feb - 8 Mar 2025 YIRI ARTS Text/ Gumilar Ganjar Evi Pangestu reimagines the square as more than just geometry—it becomes a site of control, fairness, and rebellion. Her Structure Control series, featuring Forced Interaction and Overthinking Squares, unfolds through vortical processes of squaring, de-squaring, and re-squaring. By disrupting foundational structures while simultaneously offering resolution, Evi’s practice... Read more -
Ana Malta：MENU
15 Feb - 8 Mar 2025 YIRI ARTS In Portugal, where the artist is from, a meal is not truly just, or at all, about food. Is about sharing, not just the necessary act of eating, but something of ourselves with others. Following this idea, the exhibition is arranged just as such - a menu for a banquet... Read more -
Hsieh Jung-Wei：Orbit
15 Feb - 8 Mar 2025 BACK_Y The understanding of space differs across cultures. In Western traditions, space is often perceived as immaterial or a negative form. In contrast, East Asian perspectives center on the concept of 'the space in between' (間 ), which emphasizes the intervals and connections between objects and events rather than simply categorizing... Read more -
Lan Chung-Hsuan: Clear-Air Turbulence
26 Dec 2024 - 24 Jan 2025 BACK_Y 'Clear-air turbulence' (CAT) refers to invisible, undetectable turbulence in clear skies. Its intensity and frequency have increased with climate change, posing frequent risks to flight safety. Borrowing from this invisible yet dangerous weather phenomenon, “Clear-air Turbulence”, an exhibition by Lan Chung-Hsuan, explores contemporary global issues through photography, installations, found objects,... Read more
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Keng Chieh-Sheng: Rise Again
26 Dec 2024 - 25 Jan 2025 YIRI ARTS What distinguishes a wooden plank from a living plant? In this solo exhibition, Keng Chieh-Sheng reexamines this question by placing both on a timeline, viewing them as different states of the same material—one inert and the other alive. Can this linear understanding of time be disrupted, allowing materials to return... Read more -
Anthrozoology
26 Dec 2024 - 25 Jan 2025 YIRI ARTS The exhibition Anthrozoology brings together works by five contemporary artists—Taiwanese artists Tsai Pou-Ching, Chen Sheng-Wen and Lin Kuan-Yin, Chinese artist Huang Qi-You, and Indonesian artist M. Irfan. Through diverse mediums such as painting, textiles, photography and video, these artists explore the multifaceted ways humans interact, influence, and coexist with the... Read more
