The Culture Division of the Taipei Representative Office in the United Kingdom (TRO), with the support of the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, has helped bring the work of Taiwanese artists Li Yuan-chia and Tehching Hsieh to London. Their artwork will feature in Whitechapel Gallery’s Spring Exhibition, ‘A Century of the Artist’s Studio 1920-2020’, open to the public from 22nd February to 5th June.
All works of art come to being in a particular time and place, and for most, that place is the artist’s studio. This multi-media exhibition explores the original contexts in which art is created, and considers ways in which the studio itself can become a work of art. The exhibition will present paintings, sculptures, illustrations, and film depicting the creative possibilities of the studio, as well as a series of ‘studio corners’ which recreate the actual environments in which great artists have worked. The exhibition will bring together more than 100 works by over 80 artists and collectives from Europe, Africa, South Asia, China, Japan, North and South America, the Middle East, and Australasia.