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2025-08-16
Betwee sun and rain, Meng-Chan Yu Solo Exhibition
Venue: Bicycle Warehouse, Dayi Area, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Date: 2025.8.16 - 8.24
Mon.-Thu. 11:00-17:00
Fri.-Sun. 11:00-19:00
Free Entry
Advisory Organization: Ministry Of Culture
Organizer: Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Kaohsiung City, Pier-2 Art Center
Exhibition Concept:
How do we live with the unknown?
In the past, salt production thrived in Yancheng. Salt workers worshipped the Sun God, praying for stable weather during the salt-drying process. Through their faith, they found spiritual support to help them cope with the uncertainty of the future.
At the Pier-2 Art Center, I work with salt and Xuan paper, using their light and semi-transparent qualities to express the intangible realm of the spirit. Yet unexpectedly, these materials also captured the lived experiences of salt workers who depended on the weather. Whenever it rains, the salt grains once fixed onto the Xuan paper absorb moisture and dissolve, rendering the finished work uncertain. My emotions rise and fall with it, just like those of the salt workers who once prayed for sunny days.
Looking back, I realize that ever since graduating from art school, my journey as an artist has been filled with uncertainty, and my works have been created in response to my encounters with the unknown. Suddenly, I understand: faith finds its meaning in a life filled with uncertainty.
2024-11-29
Playing with nature - Earth Art Festival in Pingtung, Taiwan
Three years ago, Dacheng Art Experimental Elementary School transitioned from a "regular school" to an experimental one, successfully averting closure due to a declining student population. Today, it has become a school with a waiting list for enrollment. This year, the school harnessed the community's cohesion to host Taiwan's first event that integrates primary education with an Earth Art Festival.
Artists from Mexico, Indonesia, Thailand, Belgium, and Taiwan have been invited to use local natural materials to create artwork on the campus and in the surrounding areas. The opening day of the Earth Art Festival is December 14, 2024, and I warmly welcome everyone to attend!
Please scan the QR code for detailed information.
2024-11-01
Walk & Workshop at Dat Bolwerck, Zutphen, the Netherlands
In Zutphen, the use of red bricks in constructions and the stone-paved streets complement the historical atmosphere. Inspired by the city's landscape and the regional collected soil and recycled building/road materials, Yu invites participants to experience the fun of creating - maximizing the inherent qualities of the materials while blending with the local character. Participants can take their creations home directly.
The program is made possible by the venue Dat Bolwerck and the foundation Art Futures, an international non-profit organization that supports and initiates activities with an unconditional belief in the value of art, culture, and education.
Date: 9. November 2024
Duration: 10:30 - 13:00
Location: Dat Bolwerck, Zaadmarkt 112, Zutphen
Language: English
Please book the ticket here.
2024-11-01
Hydromedia: Seeing with water - Group exhibition at Technische Sammlungen Dresden
Exhibition duration: 23. 11. 2024 - 16. 03. 2025
Location: Technische Sammlungen Dresden
Junghansstraße 1-3 (Eingang Schandauer Str.) 01277 Dresden
Opening hours:
Tue - Fri: 9:00 - 17:00
Sat, Sun, Public holidays: 10:00 - 18:00
23.12 – 25. 12. 2024, 30. 12. 2024 - 1. 1. 2025: closed
2024-08-20
Regionale 7
Exhibition opening: Friday, 20. 09. 2024 at 18:00
Exhibition duration: 21. 09. 2024 - 06. 10. 2024
Location: Overbeck-Gesellschaft
Königstraße 11 (Behnhausgarten) 23552 Lübeck, Germany
Free entrance
2024-05-27
... a silvery leaf touches the soil, Art Futures Fellow 2024, Meng-Chan Yu Solo Exhibition at [SiC] Space for International Cooperation in Athens, Greece
Exhibition opening: Friday, 07. 06. 2024 at 18:00
Artist talk: Saturday, 08. 06. 2024 (also streaming), 17.00-18.30 Athens time*.
Exhibition duration: 08. 06. 2024 - 12. 06. 2024
Opening hours: 18:00 - 22:00
Location: Nileos 6, 11851 Thisseio, Athina
Free entrance
*If you would like to join via streaming, please email me (info(AT)mengchanyu(DOT)com) before 06. 06. 2024 with your email address. Thank you.
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Text by Georgios Papadopoulos
For over fifteen years, Meng-Chan Yu has been refining her artistic practice, transitioning from pottery and ceramics to land art and eco-criticism. She employs innovative techniques to incorporate soil as the central element of her artistic expression. Meng-Chan has perfected a method for creating a spectrum of colors by mixing different kinds of soil, capturing and representing the essence of the places from which the soil is sourced.
Soil is a powerful storyteller, documenting regional characteristics and serving as a fundamental component of life. In her exhibition at [SiC] Meng-Chan explores and visualizes our connection to the natural world, following the trajectory of a silvery leaf that has drifted from its parent olive tree to touch the soil. Her work challenges us to reconsider our relationships to non-human life forms and natural processes, and to contemplate the cyclical nature of organic matter.
Cyclicality prompts a profound existential inquiry. What is our origin and what is our future? Soil embodies both life and death—it nurtures plants, sustains various life forms, and enhances recomposition. In our living environment, matter and energy circulate silently. When life ends and organic matter is segregated from the body in order to be converted and reused. The silvery leaf already knows that cyclicality is crucial to life, both human and non-human, so fearlessly it abandons the tree in order to touch the soil.
Meng-Chan Yu's exhibition is the culmination of her two months residency in [SiC] supported by the Art Futures an international non-profit organization that supports and initiates activities with an unconditional belief in the value of the arts, culture and education. [SiC] Space for International Cooperation, is an independent, non-for profit, project-space in the heart of Athens. Privately run, international.
2024-03-02
Open gallery day at Atelier Josepha
I would like to invite you to the OPEN GALLERY DAY on Saturday, 20th April from 12:30 - 18:00 at Atelier Josepha in Ahrenshoop.
Participating Artists: Oksana Yushko, Bärbel Praun, Angelia J. Trojnarski, Reinhard Krehl, Akvilė Anglickaitė, Meng-Chan Yu
Curator: Simone Kessler
Address: Atelier Josepha, Schifferberg 2 A, D-18347 Ahrenshoop, Germany
Date: 20. April 2024, 12:30 - 18:00
Free admission
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2024-01-17
Hydromedia: Seeing with water - Group exhibition
Exhibition opening: 16. 02. 2024 at 17:00
Location: AG – Ruimte voor nieuwe kunst en media | HKU
Minrebroederstraat 16, 3512 GT Utrecht, the Netherlands
Exhibition duration: 17. 2. 2024 - 3. 3. 2024
Opening hours: Wed–Sun, 13:00–18:00
Free entrance
Disabled access
2023-07-18
Selected as Artists-in-Residence Hydromedia: Seeing with Water 2023 at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (NL)
Hydromedia: Seeing with Water invites 12 artists to create visualization methods and protocols that promote citizen engagement for new strategies in ecological water management. These artists will work on sites specified by the three art institutions Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (DE), Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (NL) and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp (BE). The project will run from January 2023 through December 2024. Each institute will host four artists for a one-month residency in which they will be invited to develop their experimental procedures toward a wider public understanding of ecocentric visions, with a focus on water.
The first residency will take place in Antwerp, Belgium in April 2023, the second one in Utrecht, the Netherlands in October 2023, and the third and final one in April 2024 in Karlsruhe, Germany.
2023-07-18
Selected as Artists-in-Residence 2023 at Atelier Josepha, Ahrenshoop, Germany
In May 2018, Atelier Josepha celebrated its opening as a flexible showroom and workspace in Ahrenshoop. The studio offers artists a quiet place for inspiration between the Bodden and the Baltic Sea. Every year, the studio offers two artist residencies of respectively three weeks. A team of curators selects German and international artists who will be invited to work in the studio and stay at the neighboring Haus Josepha.
2023-07-18
Selected for XVIII International Contemporary Ceramics Award, Spain
It's an honor to be selected for CERCO 2023.
CERCO was born in the year 2000. Since then, it aims to seek contemporaneity in ceramics to exhibit it once a year in Zaragoza and Teruel. With its multidisciplinary and international nature, CERCO seeks to showcase the latest creations and trends in contemporary ceramics. Its biennial event allows for an expanded perspective on other parts of the world.
2023-05-14
Linked by soil - Meng-Chan Yu Solo Exhibition
Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center
International Artist in Residence Solo Exhibition
Exhibition duration: 19. 05. 2023 - 25. 06. 2023
Wednesday to Sunday: 9:00 - 17:00
Address: Red Brick Craft Building (紅磚工藝館) No. 5, Zongye, Madou Dist., Tainan City, Taiwan
Tel.: +886 (0)6 571 8123
Exhibition opening: 19. May 2023 (Friday), 10:00 in the Red Brick Craft Building (紅磚工藝館)
Welcome!
Which natural elements are essential for human survival? I connect soil to market vendors, fruit trees, forests, soil microorganisms, and the universe. The diverse combinations of soil and climate in different regions produce various agricultural products and ecosystems, inspiring the development of human cultures. Tracing back from the rich humanities appearance to the soil, I use soil-made images to reflect the local environment and simultaneously aim to communicate with people across regions.
2022-11-02