The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) is delighted to welcome guest resident curator Danilo Lovisi for a one-month residency from July 13 to August 13.

To foster meaningful, deep dialogues with Taiwan’s vibrant art community and the wider public, Lovisi has developed an engaging series of events. We cordially invite you to join us, engage firsthand with the curator, and explore the boundless possibilities of contemporary curatorial methodologies.

|| Curatorial Workshop: Visual Pairings / Object-Narratives ||

//Time//

14:00-17:00 Saturday, July 25, 2026

//Venue//

NTMoFA Residency Studio

//Themes explored//

- Memory

- Islandness

- Intimacy

- Circulation

- Found objects

- Affective relationships with images and materials

//Participants may//

- Bring a personal object or printed image

- Select images from a pool prepared during the residency by Danilo Lovisi

- Create visual constellations or narrative associations accompanied by Danilo Lovisi

- Discuss the emotional, poetic or symbolic connections emerging from these pairings.

//Introduction//

The workshop on July 25 is conceived as a public and pedagogical extension of the working process developed by Danilo Lovisi during his residency. During the first two weeks, the project will focus on observing selected artworks from the NTMoFA collection and collecting modest urban fragments through walks in Taichung. The workshop will share this method with participants by inviting them to experiment with intuitive visual pairings between images, objects, textures and memories. Through this collective exercise, participants will create associations and short narratives, while being introduced to the project’s main gestures: looking, associating, mapping and narrating. The aim is to make the residency’s core method accessible to the public through a participatory format, and to explore how meaning can emerge through proximity, contrast and eventual resonance.

//Format//

A collaborative workshop inviting participants to create intuitive visual associations between everyday objects, personal images and reproductions of artworks from the museum collection pre-selected by Danilo Lovisi, around the themes of islandness, memory, affective relationships with images and materials.

Inspired by visual mapping practices, the workshop encourages participants to build unexpected resonances through memory, form, texture, symbolism or personal experience. The workshop is conceived as accessible and inter generational, open to participants without requiring prior theoretical or artistic knowledge.

|| Final Presentation ||

//Time//

14:00-16:00 Saturday, August 8, 2026

//Venue//

NTMoFA Residency Studio

Throughout his month-long residency, Danilo has immersed himself in research within the NTMoFA collection, captured the pulse of local streets, and engaged in dialogues with Taiwanese experts and scholars. On Saturday, August 8th, he will present the culmination of his residency!

This open studio distills the creative fragments of his journey and the inspiring sparks from public interactions into a tangible visual experience. We warmly invite you to step into his studio and explore this creative experiment with us!

|| Capsule Exhibition ||

//Time//

August 8 - 13, 2026

//Venue//

NTMoFA Residency Studio

A temporary studio-based display combining artworks reproductions, found objects, annotated maps, visual pairings and short texts produced during the residency.

***Events will be conducted in English by the residency curator, Danilo Lovisi, with professional interpreters providing consecutive translation into Chinese throughout the session.

How to Participate: Please register via the museum’s official website. The list of accepted participants and the waitlist will be announced on the website in the order of registration. If an accepted participant is unable to attend, please cancel the registration online or by phone at least three days prior to the event.