Each Modern
Each Modern is a research-driven gallery centered on rigorous selection between historical inquiry and market structures. Rather than pursuing stylistic diversity, the gallery is concerned with how ideas are repeatedly distilled, translated, and ultimately sedimented across different cultures, histories, and contexts.
One core focus of the gallery lies in minimalism, abstraction, and conceptual practices from the postwar period to the present. Each Modern examines how artists respond to fundamental questions of time, materiality, writing, spirituality, and identity. Within this trajectory, form is never an end in itself; conceptual clarity and continuity remain central. Particular attention is given to the underexamined intersections between East Asian spiritual abstraction and Western minimalist traditions, articulated through long-term curatorial projects that foster sustained cross-cultural dialogue.
A second focus is dedicated to the rereading of Eastern imagery and visual culture. Images are approached as carriers of cultural memory, corporeal politics, and structures of looking, spanning practices from historical photography to contemporary art. The gallery considers how images shape modes of perception under different historical and social conditions, and how they function as critical lenses for understanding East Asian modernity and contemporary experience.
The third focus engages contemporary artistic practices in Taiwan and China. Grounded in Taiwan’s context of discursive freedom, the gallery examines how artists renegotiate painterly subjectivity amid historical rupture, cultural inscription, and global awareness. Emphasis is placed on practices in which painting bears intellectual and conceptual weight, rather than serving as a vehicle for stylistic expression alone.
In addition, Each Modern maintains an open field for practices still in formation, accommodating experimental and cross-media works that resist immediate definition. This space allows ideas and forms to emerge gradually over time, rather than demanding instant resolution.
Operating under the single criterion of whether an idea can withstand time, Each Modern has developed extensive experience in collaborative curatorial projects with institutions including Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and Longlati Art Foundation. The gallery has also maintained a sustained presence at major international art fairs such as Art Basel Hong Kong, Paris Photo, ARCOlisboa, Art Collaboration Kyoto, and Tokyo Gendai.
Each Modern believes that art generates value—and continues to shape the future.
Member since 2023
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Each Modern
Taipei
forthcoming
Intellectual Structures: Trigger, Judgment, and Decision
25 Apr - 6 Jun 2026
3F, 97 Sec. 2 DunHua S. Road, 106, Taipei
Wed-Sat 12.30-6.30pm
not open today
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curated by Qi Chao, this group exhibition with DAZHI, Ding Hongdan, Jing Ao, Liang Yuanwei, Wenjue, and Xu Qu examines which aspects of human thought and artistic creation remain uniquely human
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