ART TAIPEI 2026 opens to the public at Taipei World Trade Center Hall 1 at 2pm on October 30. Donna Art offers two ways into material and space: a five-artist presentation at A18 and Hsu Chun-Yu in the MIT emerging-artist section at M01. One moves through ink, oil paint and glass; the other asks how metal wire constructs a person. October 29 is a VIP preview. Although the posters run from October 29 to November 2, ordinary visitors should plan around the public sessions.
October 29 is a preview; public access starts the next afternoon
Public hours are October 30, 2–7pm; October 31 and November 1, 11am–7pm; and November 2, 11am–6pm. October 29 opens to special VIPs at noon and VIPs at 3pm; October 30, 11am–2pm is also a VIP session, not early public admission. The venue is 5 Xinyi Road, Section 5, Taipei, accessible from exits 1 or 5 of Taipei 101/World Trade Center MRT station. Check ticket eligibility and admission conditions with the organiser.
A18: from flower paintings to light in layered glass
A18 brings together Hung Chien Hui, Lu Fang, Keita Sagaki, Toshio Iezumi and South African artist Mia Nel, who lives in Hong Kong. Rather than treating everything as flat painting, compare how each medium handles space. Hung transforms everyday imagery through ink; Lu explores flowers, plants and layers of oil paint; Sagaki draws attention towards detail through intricate rendering and composition. Iezumi’s layered glass responds to surrounding light through volume, transmission and refraction, while Nel reorganises everyday experience in mixed media.
The A18 publicity design uses Lu Fang’s 2026 work Flowers of the Landscape, labelled 102 × 84cm. White and pink flowers fill the foreground while mountain forms retreat into a grey-blue distance, creating different viewing depths. This is a fair publicity design, not a photograph of a finished booth. It introduces a visual direction but does not establish the size, price or hanging arrangement of every work. Moving from the bouquet’s overall shape towards petals and leaves offers one starting point for looking.
M01: Hsu Chun-Yu connects figures and space with wire
Donna Art partners with Hsu Chun-Yu for the MIT emerging-artist section at M01. Born in Hsinchu in 1996 and now living and working in Tainan, Hsu uses copper wire, iron wire and other metal strands, bending, wrapping and interweaving them into everyday figures. Unlike sculpture built around closed masses, a line can define an outline while leaving openings, keeping the figure connected to the space behind it. Wire functions as the structure of a gesture rather than merely decoration.
The M01 publicity image shows a hat-wearing figure, glasses, clothing textures and a row of rounded objects in front. Dense and overlapping black lines allow face and body to emerge through gaps. The photograph does not establish the person’s name or occupation, and the rounded objects should not be assigned an invented product identity. Follow the hat brim, glasses and arm, then imagine how front and back strands might overlap from another angle. This is a reading of the image, not a claim of an on-site visit.
The official M01 publicity design presents Hsu Chun-Yu’s wire figure for the MIT emerging-artist section, not a photograph taken on site by TIDEZINE.
Both booths belong to the same fair and can be considered together as a comparison between space inside a picture and space between lines. A18’s range of materials and M01’s concentrated study of everyday figures create a rhythm from breadth to focus. The fair ends November 2, closing earlier at 6pm on that final day. Check public hours and admission eligibility before locating the booths. Availability, prices and collecting terms require confirmation with the gallery; promotional language is not a market guarantee.
