The National Human Rights Museum (NHRM) held a press conference for the opening of the Green Island Biennial 2025 at the Jing-Mei White Terror Memorial Park in Taipei on May 13. Titled “Duration of 149 Sea Miles – The Struggle of Memory against Forgetting (一四九海浬的時間：對抗遺忘),” the exhibition features 23 artists and art groups at home and abroad.
With Takamori Nobuo (高森信男) as the chief curator as well as Chang Wen-hao (張文豪) and Tseng Che-wei (曾哲偉) as co-curators, the Green Island Biennial 2025 reflects on the trauma and memories of the first group of political prisoners who departed from Keelung Harbor in 1951 and embarked on a 149-nautical-mile journey to Green Island.
The artist lineup includes seven international artists and collectives from countries and regions such as Haiti, Croatia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Vietnam, investigating contemporary narratives about human rights through diverse media including video, installation, and painting.
Minister of Culture Li Yuan expressed his commitment to promoting the values of human rights across the nation, with the aim of expanding the biennial from the outlying Green Island to Taiwan proper. Additionally, he hopes to establish the International Human Rights Film Festival as one of the country’s most significant cultural events.
The exhibition runs from May 17 through Sept. 21. For more information, visit the NHRM official website and Facebook page.