台湾艺术家指控光州双年展审查更名

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多位台湾艺术家指控韩国光州双年展在展品更名问题上进行审查，事件引发艺术界关注。

原文链接：https://www.artforum.com/news/taiwanese-artists-accuse-gwangju-biennale-censorship-1234757357/

By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. Taiwanese artist participating in the 16th iteration of the Gwangju Biennale allege that exhibition organizers changed the name of their pavilion in an act of political censorship. The group’s proposal was submitted by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) and accepted under the name “Taiwan Pavilion” but was unilaterally changed on posters promoting the event to “NTMOFA.” Other national and institutional names on the poster remained unrevised, including Mongolia, UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN), and the international artist-initiated platform Stateless Mind. The pavilion’s curator Chen Hsiang-Wen and its ten participating artists condemned the change, which comes amid threats to the nation’s sovereignty by China. In a New Year’s address, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to reunify the two countries and has insisted that other countries not officially recognize Taipei in order to maintain diplomatic ties with Beijing. In a statement posted to Instagram on August 15, the Taiwanese group wrote that “more and more, we are witnessing fellow artists across the international art world having their works altered or removed because of their nationality, gender, faith, or political positions. At the same time, major powers are increasingly using diplomatic pressure and economic resources to interfere beyond their borders.” According to Taipei Times, the South Korean artist group Artists’ Solidarity Against Censorship has called for the immediate restoration of the name “Taiwan Pavilion,” disclosure of the organizers’ decision-making process, and a formal apology. “Since its founding in 1995, the Gwangju Biennale has publicly upheld the history of the May 18 Gwangju Democratic Uprising and the values it represents: democracy, human rights, freedom and resistance,” the group said in a statement. An article in the South China Morning Post includes part of an August 19 statement from the Gwangju Biennale Foundation, which characterizes the dispute as an “administrative difference concerning participant classification and naming conventions” that “does not concern the content of an exhibition or freedom of expression.” The biennale’s theme is “You Must Change Your Life,” which takes its title from the last line of Rainer Maria Rilke’s 1908 sonnet “Archaic Torso of Apollo.” The exhibition runs from September 5 to November 15, 2026.

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