Taipei Biennial 2023 Curators Announced: Freya Chou, Brian Kuan Wood, Reem Shadid to Lead

The Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) has revealed the curatorial team for the 13th Taipei Biennial, set to open in November 2023. Taiwanese curator Freya Chou, New York-based writer and educator Brian Kuan Wood, and Beirut-based curator Reem Shadid will lead the event. Chou, who splits her time between Taipei and Hong Kong, previously contributed to the 6th and 7th Taipei Biennials in 2008 and 2010, co-curated the 10th Shanghai Biennial in 2014, served as a guest curator for Hong Kong's collateral project at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, and was on the Curatorial Council for this year's Carnegie International. Brian Kuan Wood, a founding editor of e-flux, has taught in the MA Curatorial Practice program at the School of Visual Arts in New York since 2015. Reem Shadid, formerly deputy director of the Sharjah Art Foundation, is also co-curating the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter New Visions 2023 triennial. According to a press release, the curators aim to develop a collaborative methodology, though specific themes and details remain undisclosed.