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Nestled in the heart of Taipei, her house-turned-gallery is a haven for experimental voices

Chi-Wen Huang, the Taiwanese trailblazer championing Asian video art

Chi-Wen Huang is a woman on a mission: supporting the most experimental art coming out from Asia. For the last 14 years, the Taipei-based gallerist has focused on video and new media, championing art forms that, too often, remain considered challenging to collect. Artists dealing with such loaded subjects as politics, religion, and gender identity abound in the program she runs from her gallery in the heart of the Taiwanese capital. ‘The underground movements are what attracts me.’&nbsp; she says. ‘The new generations have a new energy. We need to bring it up.’The gallerist has recently moved to a space suited to her ambitions.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artbasel.com/catalog/gallery/1352/Chi-Wen-Gallery" target="_blank">Chi-Wen Gallery</a> is not just a white cube. A fully functioning house – where she also resides – it has been conceived as a multi-purpose space where artists and gallery guests are invited to spend time, and collectors encouraged to discover innovative ways of displaying new media in a domestic setting. Chi-Wen Gallery also features a Zen garden, which regularly hosts performances. In this new episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artbasel.com/hong-kong/gallery-portraits-Hong-Kong-2018" target="_blank">Meet the Gallerists</a>, Huang takes Art Basel on a tour of her unique setting and explains why video art is the medium for our time.Chi-Wen exhibited in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artbasel.com/artworks?showIds=701&amp;sectorIds=-6" target="_blank">Galleries</a> sector at Art Basel Hong Kong.Camera &amp; edit: Joshua Davy Sound: Thomas Rechberger Production: Art Basel

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