Know WHATZ
Founded in 2021, it is composed of a group of passionate art lovers and is dedicated to promoting contemporary Taiwanese art.
Discover and showcase the high-quality creations of Taiwanese artists, while actively promoting in-depth exchanges and cooperation with the international art community, injecting more possibilities and momentum into Taiwanese art.
Total visitors
Total participating artists
Nationality of participating artists
Which year
60,000
380
20
6
WHATZ's Vision
Themed Art Fair
Every year, with a new theme, the fair combines art fairs, online communities, new generation collectors and non-profit art and cultural institutions, integrates into the art industry chain, promotes diversified art exchanges, and explores innovative exhibition formats and forward-looking presentation models.
Cultivating a new generation of artists and curators
The "WHATZ Supernova" Art Newcomer Award is continued, and we are committed to supporting the new generation of artists to enter the industry, find suitable gallery cooperation opportunities for them, and display their works in the exhibition area of the conference. At the same time, we provide practical opportunities for new curators, integrate art trends and business models, and create more value.
Deepening international artistic exchanges and cooperation
With Taiwan as the core, we invite potential international artists to participate in the exhibition, expand the diversity of participating countries and regions, and actively seek cooperation with the Asia Hotel Expo to enhance the international visibility and cultural influence of Taiwanese art.
WHATZ's judges
Wu Guanlin
In 2011, he obtained a Master of Fine Arts from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia. He currently teaches at several art institutions in Hong Kong. His works are centered on modern ink painting, covering multiple media such as installation, photography, sculpture, public art and landscape art. His style integrates modern industrial production processes and traditional aesthetics. His inspiration often comes from daily life in Hong Kong, and he is deeply concerned about social issues such as land reclamation. He has won important awards such as the "Hong Kong Urban Council Art Award" and the "10th National Fine Arts Works Special Award". His works are widely collected, including the Hong Kong Cultural Museum, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the University of Hong Kong Museum of Fine Arts and private collectors.
Hou Zhongying
Currently a full-time assistant professor in the Department of Visual Arts and Design at the National Tainan University, he once studied at the Prince's College of Traditional Arts in the United Kingdom and was commended by the Prince of Wales. His works start from realistic painting, integrating traditional craftsmanship with contemporary artistic thinking, and carry out contemporary and diverse artistic expressions, focusing on the essential issues of human desire and power, viewing and artistic cognition, and often use "hands" as the theme to express the complex and ever-changing relationship between people and the world. His works have been exhibited in China, the United Kingdom, Japan and other places, and have been collected by the Prince's College of Traditional Arts in the United Kingdom, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, the Chi Mei Museum and other institutions.
Hong Yunting
In 2010, he was awarded the "Excellent Artist" diploma by the Institute of Plastic Arts of the National Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden, Germany. During his study abroad, he co-founded the tamtamART art space in Berlin with two other Taiwanese artists who were also studying in Germany, trying to bring Taiwan into the European art field and promote dialogue and exchanges with the world. He is good at connecting the audience's body and the exhibition venue through his works, becoming a medium to guide the audience's imagination and in-depth spatial experience. In recent years, his creation and curation have focused on issues such as speed, mobility and non-place in contemporary social culture. His works have been exhibited in New York, Paris, Berlin and Israel, showing a cross-regional international influence.
Xu Tangwei
He was a 2009 Asian Cultural Association Award winner. Since 2010, he has been living in San Francisco's Headland Center for the Arts and Brooklyn's ISCP International Art Studio, starting his life between the United States and Taiwan. The excitement of diverse cultures and environments has become a rich source of nourishment for his artistic creation. He is good at using smooth lines and diverse media techniques to create unique themes that are both mechanical and biological, which has become a signature creative style. His exhibitions have been held in New York, California, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. In 2013, he collaborated with the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) on the "Magic Monkeys: A Fictional Journey to the West" public art installation project, becoming the first artist to install public art in New York City.
Zhang Tingya
Currently a full-time creator and adjunct assistant professor at the Department of Fine Arts at the National Taiwan University of Arts. While growing up, he learned ink painting and Western painting techniques, and is proficient in a variety of printing techniques. He focuses on using watermark woodcut techniques in his creations, combining the ink rhythm of water-based media such as ink and watercolor with the wood grain texture left over from the printing process, reorganizing everyday elements and objects to create a fantastic and unique spatial scene. The audience can travel through it through their imagination and feel the artistic conception of Eastern ink painting that is "feasible, visible, and navigable." His works have been exhibited at the 2012 Taipei Biennial, the French Print Triennial, and the Ulsan International Woodcut Print Exhibition in South Korea, and he is often invited to hold exhibitions in Taiwan, Japan, and Europe.
Feng Yili
Master of Arts and Literature from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Museum Studies from the University of Leicester, UK. Currently an ink and mixed media artist, he teaches the Chinese Calligraphy Diploma Program at the School of Professional and Continuing Education of the University of Hong Kong. His artistic practice focuses on the modern expression of experimental calligraphy and explores issues such as human senses, identity and history in the contemporary context. In recent years, his works have been exhibited in Hong Kong, Italy, the United States, Taiwan, Japan and other places. His art criticism has won the first and second Yokoyama Calligraphy Museum Calligraphy Research and Criticism Biennial Award in the art criticism category. At the same time, he deeply thinks about the multiple possibilities of calligraphy and contemporary art through his creation and research criticism.
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You Mengshu
He holds a Master of Fine Arts from Michigan State University, a PhD in Visual Arts from the University of Sydney, Australia, and is currently an associate professor at the Department of Art and Plastic Design at the National Taipei University of Education. He is an artist, curator, and art educator. His creative practice spans multiple fields, and he has participated in international exhibitions such as the Jakarta Biennial, the Australian Ceramic Triennial, the Korean Ceramic Biennial, the National Conference on Education of Ceramic Art (NCECA), and the Formosa Sculpture Biennial. His works use object installations, the appropriation of religious traditions, and the visual vocabulary of popular culture codes as a means of expression. He has long been concerned with and researched global and regional cross-cultural issues, showing a profound and diverse artistic perspective.
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