Next Art Tainan Award 2027
A Tainan City Government award and gallery-exhibition programme for young artists, designed to select approximately ten individual or group recipients and connect their work with professional galleries in Tainan.
Official Call / Opportunity Page URL: https://next-art.tainan.gov.tw/index.php?id=3&inter=about
Deadline: 4 September 2026 at 17:30 Taiwan time. Online applications open on 20 July 2026 at 00:00.
Application Fee / Participation Fee: No application fee is stated in the official submission guide.
Eligibility
• Applicants must have been born in or after January 1986 and must not have an exclusive gallery representation contract.
• Applicants must be citizens of the Republic of China (Taiwan), or hold an ROC residence permit or other legal residence right.
• Individual and group applications are accepted. Every group member must meet the eligibility rules.
Application / Project Requirements
• Online application only.
• Personal details, education, exhibition history, award history, and identification documents.
• Declaration confirming that the applicant has no exclusive gallery representation contract.
• One principal work and two reference works, with title, medium, dimensions, year, and a statement of up to 200 Chinese characters.
• Accepted administrative categories are two-dimensional, three-dimensional, video, and installation. The official guide gives detailed file-size, resolution, duration, and format requirements for each category.
Funding / Support / Benefits
• Approximately ten recipients are scheduled to be selected.
• Exhibition in professional gallery spaces in Tainan.
• Approximately three recipients may be arranged to participate in one domestic or international art fair.
• Each recipient receives an exhibition-activity fee of NT$70,000 after submission of the required results report and receipt.
• Marketing support, printed promotional materials, press conference, award ceremony, and exhibition catalogue.
Application Method
• Apply through the online system linked from the official Next Art Tainan website.
• The official schedule lists September 2026 as the tentative result-announcement period.
Additional Conditions Stated by the Organizer
• Recipients are responsible for transportation of artworks, installation, de-installation, and related travel and accommodation; the organizer does not provide additional payment for these items.
• All exhibited works must be available for sale. Prices are negotiated with the matched gallery.
• For art-fair transactions, the official guide states that 50 percent of sales income goes to the gallery and 50 percent to the artist.
• The tentative gallery exhibition period is 11 March-11 April 2027.