According to the organizers’ recent announcement, Taipei’s version of the Taipei Dangdai will not be used as a “strategic re-evaluation” in 2026.
According to a statement posted on the Fair website, Art Convention Art Fair will “review the model, time, scale and format of any future activities”.
Taipai Dangdai held its sixth edition in May this year. The event received financial support from UBS and is one of three regional art fairs where the Asia International Fair Group oversees the Art Conference. The other two are Art SG in Singapore and Gendai in Yokohama, Japan. Exhibition consulting firm Angus Montgomery Arts is also a major and founding shareholder in all three art fairs.
The first edition of the fair was held in January 2019 and was led by former Basel Hong Kong former director Magnus Renfrew. The fair will feature over 90 participating galleries including the large Gagos, Hauser and Worth, Pace Gallery and David Zwener. Blue Chip Gallery also participated in the inaugural editions include Sadie Coles HQ, Perrotin, White Cube, Lehmann Maupin and Lisson Gallery.
The number of galleries participating narrowed to 54 times this year’s version, without Giant-Galileans.
News of the interruption in Taipei Dangdai will be held in October at the 37th Flagship Art Fair (ART) at Park Avenue Armoy in October.
Reviewed in a Wednesday email to members ArtnewsADAA leadership sees the “strategic pause” as the reason for the cancellation, adding that the board has made a decision “after careful review.” The fair was originally scheduled to open on October 28 and will open on October 28.
It is worth noting that information about previous versions of Taipei Dangdai has been removed from its website and the Art Fair has been removed from the website of Angus Montgomery Arts. Art-assembled Instagram page seems to be disabled.
Creo Arts of the Angus Montgomery arts department organized Photofairs, but the debut edition originally scheduled for Hong Kong this year was cancelled in December and the second edition of Photofairs in New York was cancelled in 2024.
Other art fairs at Angus Montgomery Art include the Art Centre in Hong Kong, the Indian Art Fair in New Delhi, the Contemporary Contemporary Art Fair in Sydney and the Aotearoa Art Fair in Auckland, New Zealand.
Artnews Have contacted Angus Montgomery Art for comment.
The stagnant news first reported Artnet.
