Ku Chi-Chun's six-panel gold folding screen, painted in black ink, standing whole against a concrete wall

一生只做一件事 One pursuit, for a lifetime.

Ku Chi-Chun 辜琪鈞 · Taipei and Paris

Mineral pigment, ink and gold leaf. Shown at the Grand Palais Éphémère and at Art Shopping, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris; held by the Taiwan Ministry of Culture Art Bank.

合作品牌

Worked with
  • Gucci
  • Kiton
  • Stefano Ricci
  • Fabiana Filippi
  • Shiatzy Chen
  • Häagen-Dazs × Louvre
  • Mercedes-Benz
  • Toyota
  • Samsung
  • Citibank
  • Collaborations

展覽

Exhibited at
  • Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris
  • Art Shopping, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
  • ANIMA MUNDI, Venice
  • Discovery Art Fair, Frankfurt
  • Vision Art Expo, Lisbon
  • Art Busan
  • Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum 2025co-curated
  • Sotheby's Vienna × Rotary International charity auction2021
  • Selected CV

作品

Selected works

One pursuit across five series.

Mineral pigment, ground in the studio and bound with animal glue over more than twenty layers of hand-mounted paper; ink on rice paper; gold ink on black paper. Every series is in private and public collections. New work is made to commission.

A large red mineral painting in a mandala form on a white gallery wall, two smaller works in the same palette on the side walls
Series I · Mineral Painting 膠彩 Exhibition view, 博藝畫廊 Mineral pigment, gold leaf and crystal on hand-mounted paper

經書

Series IV · Buddhist Calligraphy

The Heart Sutra, one character at a time.

Each scroll is the Heart Sutra copied by hand, in the regular and cursive scripts of her training. It reads from right to left and closes with her seals. Gold ink on black paper is the ground she is known for.

Heart Sutra. Gold ink in ruled columns on black paper, a handscroll with small gold Buddha figures at the column tops and the artist's red seals at the left end
Series IV · Buddhist Calligraphy 經書 No. 14 Heart Sutra 心經 Gold ink on black paper, handscroll Private collection
Series IV · Buddhist Calligraphy 經書 Heart Sutra 心經 Ink on paper, regular script, handscroll
Read right to left
Heart Sutra. Regular script in black ink on cream paper ruled in columns, a line-drawn Guanyin at each end, a small gold bodhisattva at the centre and red seals, mounted in gold brocade
The lobby of CityInn Hotel on Fuxing North Road, Taipei, by day: two gold-ground panels of black ink calligraphy above the long reception desk on a concrete wall, a yellow ring-shaped bookshelf at right
Series V · Commissions 委託創作 Lobby commission, CityInn Hotel 新驛旅店, Fuxing North Road, Taipei Ink and colour on wood panels In situ
A guest-floor corridor at CityInn Hotel, Taipei: large white canvases of black ink calligraphy, with yellow blocks, line both walls to the far end
Series V · Commissions 委託創作 Corridor, CityInn Hotel Ink on canvas, guest-floor corridor In situ
  1. IMineral Painting膠彩Mineral pigment, gold leaf and crystal on hand-mounted paperView
  2. IICalligraphy書法Ink on rice paper; silver and gold leaf on silkView
  3. IIIHeroine女英雄Hand embroidery, engraving and foilView
  4. IVBuddhist Calligraphy經書Ink and gold ink on paper, handscrollsView
  5. VCommissions委託創作Interiors, brand calligraphy and installationsView
All works Guided viewings at the annual art fairs, by booking.

TEDxYongkangIndependently organized TED event · Tainan

The Power of Devoting a Lifetime to One Pursuit

一生只做一件事的力量

She has held a brush since childhood and has kept to it. The talk, given in Tainan, covers the notice she handed in to paint full time and what followed: a patented medium, a studio, and an agency representing more than 250 artists across Asia and Europe.

從台北到世界

Footprint

From Taipei to the world.

From Taipei to the world: cities of exhibitions, collections and the Vienna auction Taipei 台北 Lisbon 里斯本 Paris 巴黎2018 · 2022 · 2025 Brussels 布魯塞爾 Frankfurt · Mannheim 法蘭克福 · 曼海姆 Vienna 維也納 auction Milan 米蘭 Venice 威尼斯 Beijing 北京 Busan 釜山 Osaka 大阪 Tokyo 東京2013 · 2025 Suzhou 蘇州 Shanghai 上海 Fuzhou · Xiamen 福州 · 廈門 Shenzhen 深圳 Singapore 新加坡 collection Los Angeles 洛杉磯 Arizona 亞利桑那

Exhibitions, collections and the Vienna charity auction. The vermilion dot is the Taipei studio.

  • Taiwan
  • Japan
  • South Korea
  • Singapore
  • France
  • Belgium
  • Germany
  • Austria
  • Italy
  • Portugal
  • United States

平台

Representation

One pursuit, and a door held open.

Through DE Global Art Agency in Taipei and ALEA in Paris, Ku represents more than 250 artists across Asia and Europe, sits on the jury of the Kyla Artist Prize and publishes a peer-reviewed journal, ALEA, revue internationale d'art et de recherche, with a scholarly board drawn from 26 universities. Brands, institutions and hotels commission single works and series through the same office.

Private View

A letter from the studio, four times a year.

News of one pursuit. New commissions, exhibition dates in Taipei and Paris, nothing more.

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