About the Exhibition
BIOCHRONY is a solo exhibition of Taiwanese artist Tsai Pou-Ching in Madeleine Gallery, in Taipei, from December 18th, 2025 to January 18th, 2026. This intimate show is exclusively revealing Tsai’s last work, The Birds of New-York (2025), a series of works on paper consisting in a bidimensional continuation of the artist’s practice and attachment to nature and its paradoxical role in nowadays societies worldwide. This work is displayed with two former major pieces, Reverberations at Altitude 2000 (2021) and Three Notes on War (2024) both made with video and installation. These two last works were deeply rooted into Taiwan’s colonial History, instead, The Birds of New-York is recalling the artist’s trip to the United-States. Thus, the exhibition features a multicultural perspective about the ambivalent role of animals in contemporary contexts that are mostly urban. This project is sponsored by the Tianmei Art Foundation, which also provided the venue. BIOCHRONY originates from the course “Curatorial Practice and Theory in the Arts” at the Graduate Institute of Art History, National Taiwan Normal University. This project was born after the initiative of Dr. Hsieh Pei-Chun, independent curator and professor at the Graduate Institute of Art History of the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei. She selected the artist, place and formed a curatorial team with students, mainly future art historians and curators. Hence, Biochrony is a young, experimental and innovative exhibition, offering an unprecedented view on one of the most significant artists of Taiwan’s emerging contemporary art scene.
About the Artist
Tsai Pou-Ching was born in Chiayi in 1986. He earned an MFA from National University of Tainan in 2014. He lives and works in Tainan. He has been repeatedly recognized through major Taiwanese contemporary art awards and grant programs, and maintains an extensive exhibition record that traces the development of his artistic engagement. He notably received the Kaohsiung Award’s First Prize in 2022. Biochrony is the artist’s eleventh solo show, coming just after its consecration at Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM), titled “Specimens of Empire” in 2024. This year, he further developed his work during an international program residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York. Inspired by animals and nature since childhood, he was deeply marked by Taiwan’s sharp contrast between nature and industrialisation. The artist’s practice is mainly focused on re-writing local history in an environmentally resilient and decolonial perspective, drawing on the notions of animality, wilderness and both conceptual and geographical borders.
