柯念璞

Alice, Nien-pu Ko has worked as a curator on contemporary art, film, video, sound and interdisciplinary projects. At Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, where she has curated and co- curated local and international projects included Pan Austro-Nesian (2021), Tony Oursler: Black Box (2021), SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now (2019), Tomb of the Soul, Temple, Machine, and Self (2018) and a wide range of public programs.

Previously, she worked with major art institutions and museums, selected exhibitions including Flags, Transnational – Migrants and Outlaw Territories (Tokyo Wonder Site, 2016), Beyond the Borderline – Exiles from the Native Land (2015), Reverse Niche – Dialogue and Rebuilding at the City’s Edge (2013).

• 2021

  Co-curator, Pan Austro-Nesian, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

• 2021

  Co-curator, Tony Oursler: Black Box, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

• 2019

  Associate curator, SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, in partnership with Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

• 2018

  Curator, Tomb of the Soul, Temple, Machine, and Self, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

• 2017

  Assistant curator, Still Waters Run Deep, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

• 2016

  Curator, Flags, Transnational – Migrants and Outlaw Territories, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan

• 2015

  Curator, Beyond the Borderline – Exiles from the Native Land, Tainan, Beijing, Hong Kong, Seoul and Tokyo, Howl Art Space, Tainan, Taiwan.

• 2013

  Curator, Reverse Niche – Dialogue and Rebuilding at the City’s Edge: An exhibition in Hong Kong, Osaka and Taiwan, Hong-gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2015

  National Kaohsiung Normal University, Master of Interdisciplinary Art

• 2010

  National Dong Hwa Univeristy, Bachelor degree of Modern History

• 2017-2021

  Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, assistant curator

• 2010-2017

  Independent curator

• 2020

  Liminality Reconfiguring – Dumb Type’s Audiovisual Aesthetics, Art Accrediting No.92

• 2019

  Comparisons and Intersections of Art Histories in Southeast Asia, Art Accrediting No.86

• 2018

  Editor of Surviving on Time: Curatorial Report from Asia, Taipei: National Culture and Arts Foundation

• 2018

  Zones of Silence: Spaces and Histories of Migration – Spatial Politics of Postwar Japan Revisited, in Surviving on Time: Curatorial Report from Asia, Taipei: National Culture and Arts Foundation

• 2017

  Graveyard of Fire and Ocean: Flowing, Turning, and Termination of Japan’s Southward, in “Mandalas of Monsoon Asia”, Art Critique of Taiwan No.70

• 2014

  Reverse Niche, After the Social Turn? in “Breaking Through Political Boundaries: An Alliance of Taiwan and Hong Kong”, Art Critique of Taiwan No.57

• 2019

  Speaker, Tsai Ming Liang – Contemporary Taiwan and Malaysia Film and Video Art Conference, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Japan, Tokyo, Japan

• 2019

  Presenter, The 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden, the Netherlands

• 2018

  Speaker, Academy of Failure, organized by University of Amsterdam and International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Beijing, China

• 2017

  Speaker, Asian Curatorial Forum, organized by National Culture and Arts Foundation, Britto Arts Trust and Bengal Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh

• 2017

  Speaker, The Geography of Kimin – Spatiality, Resistance and Lived Aesthetics, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference, Seoul, Korea

• 2015

  Speaker, TransActions in the Field: Challenging the Role of Citizen Participation through Participatory Public Art, organized by Goethe-Institut Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• 2015

  Speaker, In the Name of Art – Hong Kong Contemporary Art Exhibition Forum, MoCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2015

  Speaker, Public and Space, organized by Taiwan Sociological Association, HCS Calligraphy Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2014

  Participant, Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture, Hong Kong, China

• 2010

  Participant, Survival Scene – China and Taiwan Photography Exhibition, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan