RAN Focus features a specific country or region by presenting art works and performances by artists who are active in that location. This year’s RAN Focus closes in on artists from Taiwan.

Pu Chen was born in Taiwan, where he continues to reside. Connecting the perspectives of biomorphology and bioarchaeology, he creates a diverse body of work using digital media while his creative process starts from painting. He integrates the virtual and real realms by evolving his ink and pen drawings into 2D and 3D animation, AR, NFT, installations, workshops, and more. His works have been exhibited at the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum and many other locations around the world, such as Paris, Hamburg, Guangzhou, and Taipei.

Exhibition Location: Tokyo Midtown Plaza, 1st Floor

Taiwanese artist Hsiao-Chi Tsai and Japanese artist Kimiya Yoshikawa are a duo living and working in London. Tsai studied textiles and Yoshikawa studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art in England. With an eye on the dynamic energy and stunning presence of the natural world, they create site-specific, fantastical sculptures and installations that continue to captivate audiences throughout Asia and Europe, transforming indoor and outdoor spaces into otherworldly environments.

Exhibition Location: Roppongi Hills West Walk, 2nd Floor

Founded in 2010 by Ho Hsiao-Mei (b. 1963 in Taiwan), MeimageDance is recognized by their powerful visual presentation and usage of cultural style as seen in renaissance of its ashes (2019) and New Paradise of Silent Island (2017). Besides the public performances, they carry out a project to offer young talented Taiwanese dancers living abroad support for their work production back home in Taiwan.

Exhibition Location: Roppongi Hills Arena

Cheng-Ta Yu (born 1983 in Tainan, Taiwan) and Ming Wong (born 1971 in Singapore) began collaborating as the Watermelon Sisters in 2017. Inspired by 1960s Peking Opera films and the works of Ming-Liang Tsai, the duo adopt the personas of gender-fluid queer sisters to support the path to sexual liberation through art, music and dance.

Exhibition Location: Ignoppor, 1st Floor (Exhibition) / Roppongi Hills Arena (Performance)

Goang-Ming Yuan was born in Taipei in 1965, where he continues to reside. Known as a pioneer of the video art in Taiwan, Yuan renews the possibilities for it with the use of self-made filming devices and other equipment, and poetically expresses the problems facing humanity in his works. He has participated in international exhibitions such as Taipei Biennale (1996, 1998 and 2002), Taiwan Pavilion of Venice Biennale (2003 and 2024), and Aichi Triennale 2019. Currently Professor in the Department of New Media Art, Taipei National University of the Arts.

Exhibition Location: Giotto House, 1st Floor

Aka Chang is a media artist, who began his career as a VJ. He has contributed to Taiwan’s VJ culture for many years. Experimenting with light and smoke, he has been exploring their relationship to the medium and their potential impact on human perception. Among his previous works, Rainforest of Oslo which was selected by the 2008 Taipei Digital Art Award, and the Multimmersion series created between 2017 and 2021.

Exhibition Location: San Bldg. No.3, 1st Floor

Qi Xin (born 1993) studied traditional ink painting at National University of Tainan. She co-founded Fake Fire Atelier in 2016, and has since been actively involved in artistic production and curation. Xin has always been trying to protect the time and space surrounding her from the constant changes in the urban environment and landscape of Taipei where she spent her childhood. Through the environmental art and landscape installations in recent years, she has continued to depict the vanishing landscapes.

Exhibition Location: Ignoppor, 2nd Floor