TSAI Ming-Jiun on her curatorial practice and on “We as Partners”, a project without artists.
TSAI Ming-Jiun, Deputy director of Asia University Museum of Fine Art.
Ep.109 | TSAI Ming-Jiun is a curator and an artist based in Taichung, Taiwan. Ming-Jiun shares her journey from studying art in Taiwan and the UK to her current role as a deputy director of Asia University of Fine Art. Ming-Jiun discusses her curatorial practice, emphasising her research while highlighting her recent project, "We as Partners," which focuses on the often-overlooked roles of art administrators. She reflects on Taiwan's complex cultural identity, the importance of collaboration in the creative field, and her work that focuses on the practice and research of contemporary curating.
How We Became Artists, Curated by TSAI Ming-Jiun, 2025
We As Partners, Curated by TSAI Ming-Jiun, 2025
How We Became Artists, Curated by TSAI Ming-Jiun, 2025
Ming-Jiun Tsai was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 1981; Nantou is her hometown, and now she lives and works in Taichung. Acting as an observer, her long-term relationship with art – studying and working in the field of art since junior high school – stimulates her interests in the relationship between art, public and the society. She has long-term care of environment, nature and ecology and she also has been deeply concerned about the history, cultural and social development in Taiwan, and these subject matters bring her research, collaborations, and practice gradually tend toward disciplines beyond visual arts.
As an independent curator and artist, Ming-Jiun Tsai’s projects are often site and context specific involving working closely with different collaborators and producing commissions. Recent selected curatorial projects including Listening to the Overtones of Fissures - Green Island Human Rights Art Festival (2023) in Green Island White Terror Memorial Park, How we became artists (2022) in TKG+ Project, A Rhythm of Tree Forming the Forest (2021) at Chiayi Art Museum, Survival of the exceptional (2020), Tainan Art Museum, 2019 Madou Sugar Industry Art Triennial (2019) in Madou District, Oasis (2018) in Vital Space: Live Forever Foundation.
Ming-Jiun Tsai focuses on the practice and research of contemporary curating and is currently Deputy Director of Asia University Museum of Fine Art after 10 years teaching in the Department of Fine Arts at Tunghai University.
Instagram @mingjiun.tsai
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