The 14th edition of the Taipei Biennial, titled Whispers on the Horizon, brings together 54 artists from 35 cities worldwide. Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, the exhibition features 33 newly commissioned works and site-specific installations that engage deeply with the museum’s unique architecture and context. The 2025 Taipei Biennial amplifies the voices of young and mid-career artists, with nearly half of the participants born after 1984.
Excavating the many dimensions of yearning
Taiwan’s layered history—marked by colonial rule, shifting identities, and political transformation—forms the backdrop of the 2025 Taipei Biennial: Whispers on the Horizon explores the notion of yearning, expanding it beyond mere desire into something more persistent, unresolved, and deeply embedded in the human condition.
Yearning is a force that stretches across time and geography. It is the ache of lost homes and forgotten histories, the quiet pull of a future that never fully arrives. It is not simply nostalgia, nor is it hope—it exists in-between, in the suspended space where past, present, and future collide. Whispers on the Horizon traces this longing as it manifests in personal narratives and collective memory, resonating between reality and illusion, belonging and displacement, permanence and disappearance.