Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture

Where Do We Come From? Where Are We Going?

—Navigating the Cultural Coordinates and Developmental Visions of Art Institutions 

Time: May 31 (Sun.), 2026, 14:00-16:00

Venue: Yuan Hall, TS Holdings Tower (2F, No. 118, Sec. 4, Ren’ai Rd., Taipei)

The final selection committee for the Taishin Arts Award comprises scholars and experts from Taiwan and abroad. The day after the winners are announced, the Foundation will host a panel discussion featuring three international curators and institution directors, all prominent and influential in their respective fields. They will share insights into the urban culture of their institutions’ locations, their management experiences, and their future plans for these institutions. The discussion will also cover their impressions and observations of contemporary Taiwanese artworks from this year’s Taishin Arts Award.

Speakers:

Elisabeth Millqvist (Director of Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden)

Yoshiji Yokoyama (Dramaturg of SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center, Japan)

Robin Peckham (Executive Director of JD Museum, Shenzhen, China; Former Co-Director of Taipei Dangdai) 

Moderator:

YEN Chi-ping (Chief Executive Officer, National Culture and Arts Foundation)

※English-Mandarin simultaneous interpretation is provided (ID required to rent interpretation devices)

※Free Admission. Please register in advance. Sign up here

About the Speakers

Elisabeth Millqvist 伊莉莎白・米爾奎斯特

Director of Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden

Photo © Helene Toresdotter

Elisabeth Millqvist is since 2022 the Director of Moderna Museet Malmö in Sweden funded by the City of Malmö, Region Skåne, and the Swedish Government. It is a division of Moderna Museet, the national public museum for modern and contemporary art, also including the public art agency and ArkDes. Millqvist’s dedication to art education underscores Moderna Museet’s mission to create an engaging museum exploring ways to vitalize connections between people, objects, and ideas both within and beyond the walls of the museum. Her most recently curated exhibition was “Best regards, Lee Mingwei”.  

With over a decade of experience as part of the leadership duo and artistic director of the renowned Swedish sculpture park Wanås Konst, her focus is on contemporary art. Millqvist is particularly known for close collaborations with artists with a wide range of practices, often focusing on ambitious site-specific works including collaborative working methods and aspects of performing. Commissioned works include Yoko Ono, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Kimsooja and Rana Begum. She has as well curated exhibitions in Germany and South Africa and prior to the sculpture park, she was curator at Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art in Stockholm for 8 years. Millqvist has a degree in art history from Stockholm University and serves on the board of institutions in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland.

Yoshiji Yokoyama 橫山義志

Dramaturg of SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center, Japan 

Photo © Matsumoto 

Dramaturg at SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center. He is also a programmer of the World Theatre Festival Shizuoka since 2007, and a board member of the Open Network for Performing Arts Management (ON-PAM) since 2015. He was a grantee of the Asian Cultural Council for an exchange at The Segal Theatre Center at the City University of New York Graduate Center in 2016, a member of the Asian Producers' Platform (APP) planning team from 2017 to 2024, and a director of the Tokyo Festival World Competition 2019. He lectures at Gakushuin University (Tokyo).

Yoshiji received a PhD in Performing Arts Studies from l'Université Paris X in 2008. His publications include La Grâce et l'Art du comédien. Pourquoi le théâtre a-t-il exclu le chant et la danse ? (The Grace and the Art of acting — Why did the theatre excluded singing and dancing?), Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2024.

Robin Peckham 岳鴻飛

Executive Director of JD Museum, Shenzhen, China

Former Co-Director of Taipei Dangdai Art & Ideas

Photo © Courtesy  Jessy Tsai

Robin Peckham is a curator and editor based between Taipei and Shenzhen. He is the Executive Director of JD Museum, scheduled to open in Shenzhen in 2027. He was most recently Co-Director of Taipei Dangdai Art & Ideas, and previously served as editor-in-chief of LEAP, the international art magazine of contemporary China, founded the Hong Kong exhibition space Saamlung, and organized exhibitions for Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Fosun Foundation, K11 Art Foundation, M Woods Museum, and City University of Hong Kong. Peckham served on the juries for the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award in 2015 and TAICCA's Cultural Content Technology Application Innovation Industry Flagship Project in 2020. He was named to Apollo Magazine's "Thinkers" list on 40 Under 40 Asia in 2016, and had his show "Art Post-Internet" listed by Artnews as one of the 20 most important art exhibitions of the 2010s. His writing and lectures focus on art in relation to technology, family, and popular culture

About the Moderator

YEN Chi-ping

Chief Executive Officer, National Culture and Arts Foundation

YEN is a curator and arts administrator with a background in museology and visual arts. With a lifelong passion for the arts, her career spans central government agencies, local cultural institutions, and the nonprofit sector. In recent years, she has been dedicated to serving as a bridge between Taiwan’s art community and the world, actively fostering international cultural exchange.

During her ten-year tenure at the Taipei Cultural Center in New York under the Ministry of Culture, she gained in-depth insight into the dynamics of the North American art industry and global cultural trends. Through a multi-dimensional curatorial approach, she developed international partnerships and built extensive professional networks. From 2022 to 2026, she served as Deputy Director of the National Taichung Theater, where she explored and implemented unconventional performing arts productions and advanced sustainability through green theater initiatives. Since 2026, she has served as Chief Executive Officer of the National Culture and Arts Foundation.