Don Gallery is pleased to share that ZHANG Ruyi will participate in the 14th Taipei Biennial 2025: Whispers on the Horizon.The Biennale will be held at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum from November 1, 2025 to March 29, 2026.
Co-curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, the exhibition brings together 54 artists from 35 cities worldwide, explores the notion of yearning, and expands it beyond mere desire into something more persistent, unresolved, and deeply embedded in the human condition.
Taiwan’s layered history - marked by colonial rule, shifting identities, and political transformation - forms the backdrop of the Taipei Biennial 2025. The exhibition’s inspiration is rooted in three literary and cinematic objects rooted in Taiwan that carry histories of yearning: a puppet - from Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s film The Puppetmaster (1993), a semi-biographical reflection on the life of the Taiwanese puppet master Li Tien-lu, in times of Japanese colonial rule; a diary - from Chen Yingzhen’s short story My Kid Brother Kangxiong (1960), chronicling the aspirations and struggles of a young man who committed suicide in a politically turbulent Taiwan; a bicycle - from Wu Ming-Yi’s novel The Stolen Bicycle (2015), where a son searches for traces of his father through a lost object, and who in the process gets entangled in Taiwan’s wartime history.
The exhibition features 33 newly commissioned works and site-specific installations that engage deeply with the museum’s unique architecture and context. The Taipei Biennial 2025 amplifies the voices of young and mid-career artists, with nearly half of the participants born after 1984.
9 July 2025
