Exhibition Period｜2024.3.23 Sat.-2024.5.5 Sun.
Open Time｜Tuesday to Sunday 10:00-22:00 Closed on Mondays and National Holidays
Location｜Treasure Hill Artist Village
After three years of the pandemic, although the world seems to have returned to normal, what can be seen is that, despite living in a modern society with technology and artificial intelligence, humans, in response to the uncertainties brought by the pandemic and the resulting unknown anxieties and fears, often appeal to religious rituals, divination ceremonies, or mind-body-spirit therapies beyond scientific explanations. They hope to glimpse into the future and the unknown, seeking solace for their souls.
The Treasure Hill Light Festival is held annually from the last week in March to early May. Eight to 10 art creators from Taiwan and abroad are invited to redefine the form and meaning of light together with the public through different research and creation methods such as technology, academic theory, religion, fieldwork, and mysticism.
About this unique location; Treasure Hill Artist Village (THAV) / 寶藏巖國際藝術村 is a historical community located along the Xindian River. Treasure Hill was listed in 2011 as the first “historic settlement” of Taipei City. Originally an illegal settlement, it was founded by the Kuomintang military veterans at the end of the 1940s and served originally as an anti-aircraft position.
Over twenty years of demonstrations and activism by locals persuaded the city to preserve the area, and it was turned into an "artist village" with studios and exhibition spaces. Artists from Taiwan and abroad live alongside ordinary residents. In 2004, the Taipei City government designated the once illegal settlement a historical site, with the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs in charge of its refurbishment beginning in 2006.
The hillside neighborhood was lauded by a 2006 New York Times report as one of Taipei’s must-see locations.
Location of THAV / 寶藏巖: No. 2, Alley 14, Lane 230, Section 3, Tingzhou Rd, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Taiwan.