王俊傑

In 1996, Jun-Jieh Wang graduated from the HdK Art Academy in Berlin, completing a master class (supervised by Valie Export and Heinz Emigholz). In 1984, he started working with video, and became one of the pioneers of new media art in Taiwan. Wang is currently director of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and professor at the Department of New Media Art of the Taipei National University of the Arts.

Jun-Jieh Wang received the Hsiung-Shih New Artists Award in 1984 in Taiwan. In 1995, Wang received the Berlin Television Tower Award for his video installation Little Mutton Dumpling for the Thirteenth Day. In a review, Der Tagesspiegel wrote: “The Taiwanese new media artist Jun-Jieh Wang wishes ... to expose the madness of advertising through irony, exaggerations and improbabilities.... The commercial clip aesthetics demonstrates Far Eastern precision.” In 2000, Jun-Jieh Wang was selected by the prestigious Japanese art magazine Bijutsu Techo as one of “100 notable artists.” In 2002, Wang was commissioned by the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum to create the public video installation Twin Cities. In the same year, he was the subject of a 30-minute NHK documentary “Asian Who’s Who”, which was aired on NHK’s global channel. In 2009, he received the one million NTD Taishin Arts Award in the visual art category for his video installation David’s Paradise.

Jun-Jieh Wang has been active on the international contemporary art arena from an early stage. Invitations to major international exhibitions came from, among others, the American Film Institute Video Festival, the Gwangju Biennale, the Venice Biennale, the Johannesburg Biennale, “Cities on the Move” at the Vienna Secession, Taipei Biennial, the First Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, West Bund Biennial Shanghai, Ars Electronica Linz, Transmediale Berlin, Dogo Onsen Art and European Media Art Festival etc.

In 2004, Jun-Jieh Wang curated “Navigator: Digital Art in the Making”, the first exhibition to introduce digital art to Taiwan on a large scale. Encompassing the classic works of digital art since the 1990s, it stimulated the discussion on technological art in Taiwan. His main work as curator and exhibition designer includes: “Faces of the Time” (National Palace Museum, 2002), “The Post-Stone Age” (Art Taipei 2005), “b!as: International Sound Art Exhibition” (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2005), “2006 Taipei Biennial: Dirty Yoga” (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2006), “The Grand Illusion – International New Media Arts Festival” (Culture Gallery at National Concert Hall, 2009), “The 4th Taipei Digital Art Festival” (MoCA Taipei, 2009), “Videonale: Dialogue in Contemporary Video Art” (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 2011), “Transjourney: 2012 Future Media Festival” (Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, TNUA, 2012) etc.

Wang’s work in interdisciplinary theatre and design in recent years includes: serving as Staging Visual Director for the Taiwan premiere of Wagner’s complete opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen in collaboration with the National Symphony Orchestra, Taiwan in 2006; as Multimedia and Visual Director for the musical Turn Left, Turn Right based on Jimmy’s picture book in 2008, the closing performance of the Taipei Arts Festival (Taipei Arena); as Stage and Visual Designer for Mackay – The Black Bearded Bible Man (National Theater, 2009), Taiwan’s first original opera sung in Taiwanese dialect; co-directing the technological media theatre work L’Après-midi de la Gravité with Wang Chia-Ming in 2010; directing unmanned technological media theatre Sin City in 2013 and creating The Night of Sodom (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2015).

• 2018

  Re-Base: When Experiments Become Attitude, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2014

  Digital Art Festival Taipei “Ecosystem”, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2013

  Digital Art Festival Taipei “Data-Neurons”, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2012

  Digital Art Festival Taipei “Artificial Nature”, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2012

  Future Media Festival: “Transjourney”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2011

  Videonale: Dialogue in Contemporary Video Art, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

• 2010

  Quanta Tech Art & Performance Festival “Transfuture”, Quanta Computer Inc. headquarters, Taoyuan, Taiwan

• 2009

  Digital Art Festival Taipei “FUNKY LIGHT”, MoCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2009

  The Grand Illusion – International New Media Arts Festival, Culture Gallery at National Concert Hall, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2006

  Taipei Biennial: Dirty Yoga, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2005

  b!as: International Sound Art Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2005

  The Post-Stone Age, Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2004

  Navigator: Digital Art in the Making, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

• 2002

  Faces of the Time, National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

• 1996

  HdK Art Academy in Berlin with a Meisterschüler (master’s) degree under the direction of professors Valie Export and Heinz Emigholz

• 2021-

  Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Director

• 2015-

  Department of New Media Art, Taipei National University of the Arts, Professor

• 2017-2021

  Department of New Media Art, Taipei National University of the Arts, Director

• 2013-2014

  Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Director

• 2011-2014

  Taipei National University of the Arts, Professor

• 2009-2017

  TNUA Center for Art and Technology, Director

• Solo Exhibitions (Excerpt)

• 2015

  Project Rrose: Indifferent Sélavy, MoCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2014

  Sin City 00:00:00:00, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2011

  Project Rrose: Love & Death, Galerie Grand Siècle, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2008

  The Final: Cullinan +, IT Park, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2008

  Project David III: David’s Paradise, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2001

  Microbiology Association: Hotel Project (Bibless), IT Park, Taipei, Taiwan

• 1998

  Aura 52 in Japan, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan

• 1998

  Aura 52, Dimension Endowment of Art, Taipei, Taiwan

• 1997

  Neon Urlaub/Agency Version, Agfa-Gallery, Goethe Institut, Hong Kong

• 1997

  Neon Urlaub/Expo Version, Information Science & Technology Exhibition Center, Taipei, Taiwan

• 1994

  Little Mutton Dumplings for the Thirteenth Day, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

• Group Exhibitions (Excerpt)

• 2021

  Phantasmapolis—2021 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

• 2021

  Chrono-contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2020

  Pseudo Site, Arts Center of the National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu City, Taiwan

• 2019

  Spectrosynthesis II, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

• 2019

  CINEMQ 29: Juno, CINEMQ, Shanghai, China

• 2019

  Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s-1990s, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea; National Gallery Singapore, Singapore

• 2018

  Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s-1990s, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

• 2018

  Screen Test: Chinese Video Art Since 1980s, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China

• 2016

  European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, German

• 2015

  The Night of Sodom, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2014

  Dogo Onsen Art, Snack Tsubaki, Matsuyama City, Japan

• 2014

  Transmediale - Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0, Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin, German

• 2013

  Participation in Interdisciplinary Theatre and Design Sin City, Director, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2013

  Ars Electronica - Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0, Linz, Austria

• 2013

  West Bund 2013 - A Biennial of Architecture and Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China

• 2010

  Participation in Interdisciplinary Theatre and Design L’Après-midi de la Gravité, co-directed with Wang Jia-Ming, TNUA Center for Art and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2009

  Participation in Interdisciplinary Theatre and Design Mackay: The Black Bearded Bible Man, Stage and Visual Design, National Theater, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2008

  Participation in Interdisciplinary Theatre and Design, musical Turn Left, Turn Right based on Jimmy’s picture book, Multimedia and Visual Director, Taipei Arena, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2002

  5th Kwangju Biennial - Pause, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, S. Korea

• 2000

  The Sky is the Limit: 2000 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

• 1999

  The 3rd Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia

• 1999

  The First Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

• 1998

  Taipei Biennial: Site of Desire, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

• 1997

  Cities on the Move, Secession Building, Vienna, Austria

• 1997

  The 2nd Johannesburg Biennial, Johannesburg, South Africa

• 1997

  The 47th Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo delle Prigioni, Venice, Italy

• 1995

  Kwangju Biennial '95- InfoART, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, S. Korea

• 1989

  American Film Institute Video Festival, Los Angeles, U.S.A