About the event
RIVER ART GALLERY will present “Streaming Between the Virtual and the Real”, the latest solo exhibition by sculptor Xun Wang. The exhibition will take place at Taiwan KAO PENG, a century-old historic site, in collaboration with Limitless Arts and curator Wang Pin-Hua. The exhibition will showcase Xun Wang’s latest series: “Sculpture in the Digital Age”, alongside ongoing series including “Space in Time Sculptures”, “Parallax Sculptures”, and “Life Series Sculptures”. Through his contemporary sculptural practice, Xun Wang traverses diverse artistic contexts, spanning contemporary visual culture and the digital virtual realm, becoming a witness to the convergence of multiple eras.
This exhibition centers on the concept of “streaming”, responding to the multiple layers and flow of time within historical spaces. It will showcase the latest series “Sculpture in the Digital Age”, the artist's unique technological vocabulary which recalls the timeless motif of sculpture—human body, creating a cross-media creative path in the digital age. Suspended between the infinite virtual and the material, the works break from established frameworks in search of freedom and balance, articulating with precision the ever-shifting texture of the present moment. Sculpture, as the most profound corporeal language of human emotion, once again summons the weight of “being” within Taiwan’s last remaining Prefecture Confucian Examination Hall. A dialogue across time and space continues to unfold amid ongoing transformations, streaming between past and present and opening new perspectives on contemporary sculpture.
The exhibition will open on the afternoon of January 10, 2026, and RIVER ART GALLERY will host an artist talk and a guided tour led by curator Wang Pin-Hua. Through the virtual and real dimensions of the show, and the digital versus traditional contrast between artworks and the venue, an extraordinary artistic feast unfolds—a transcendent dialogue across time and space. We sincerely invite you to join us in person and experience firsthand the immersive, on-site allure of digital sculpture!
About the organizer
RIVER ART GALLERY was founded in 1998 in Taichung, Taiwan. The gallery’s initial years were known for, the director, Ray Hung’s interest in sculptural art; and in the process, discovering renowned Taiwanese artists, such as Li Chen and Hung Yi. After over two decades of focusing on working with Taiwanese artists domestically, the gallery gradually opened up its program to an international roster in 2021, with the presence of the new director, Ella Hung, the youngest daughter of gallery founder, Ray Hung. Ella Hung’s present-day program resides in a brand new, four-level, 1600 sqft gallery space in the heart of Taichung City.
The gallery made its first steps to broadening its roster with the addition of artists who are somewhat close to home, such as Taiwanese-Canadian artist; Yi-Shuan Lee, and Taiwanese-American artist; Timothy Bair. The decision for working with these 90s born artists who have spent time living outside of their motherland, is a direct way for the gallery to reintroduce a much more expansive, and yet contemporary, idea of what Formosan culture stands for on an international stage.
Now, a few years into Ella Hung’s program at River Art Gallery, along with the much larger premises to accommodate the demands of the wide range of exhibition practices in its steadily growing roster of internationally recognized artists; River Art Gallery strives to take on an even greater presence on the global stage, with a commitment to invigorate academic as well as educational purposes. The gallery’s program is based on a determination to build and grow alongside the top innovative figures of today, in radically rethinking the exhibition as a form and taking it as a critical medium.