Evelyn Taocheng Wang - Sweet Landscape Exhibition

Working across a variety of media, including painting, writing, installation, performance, and fashion, the Rotterdam-based artist has developed a unique visual language infused with poetry, subtle humor, and critical depth. By intertwining art historical traditions, fragments of personal memory, and artistic forms of autofiction, she challenges notions of authenticity and interrogates how culture is represented, performed, and embodied.

Wang’s pictorial repertoire draws on what she wittily describes as her “eyeshadow palette of art history,” blending references to her initial training in classical Chinese ink painting and calligraphy and the schools of Western art and literature she encountered after relocating to Europe. She tackles topics such as migration, cultural assimilation, gender expression, and class affiliation, filtering them through her own lived experience and often addressing the complexity of self-perception in the face of externally imposed narratives.

The capacity to shape-shift, to reimagine herself in different cultural and visual landscapes or as various historical or fictional figures, has always been central to Wang’s practice. This is particularly evident in the five key bodies of work the artist elaborates on in the exhibition. Alongside the introduction of new site-specific motifs into her renowned imitations of Agnes Martin’s signature grid paintings on canvas, further references to the region appear in her paintings on silk and on garments selected from her own wardrobe. She also continues to draw from the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “The Frog Prince,” incorporating her recurring character of the Frog Princess into a cityscape reminiscent of an August Macke painting, and expands her series of window paintings. By embedding these bodies of work in an architectural installation that balances interior and exterior scenes, Wang transforms the museum’s second floor into a “sweet landscape.”

Public Program & Events

04. 06. 2026 - 18:00 – 20:00
In Context (DE)
The work of the artist Evelyn Taocheng Wang contains countless visual details and art-historical references. Her local research for the exhibition Sweet Landscape led her to the fresco cycles at Runkelstein Castle. In dialogue with historians, we explore how to read images and clichés—from the Middle Ages to the present day—and discuss how pictorial representations shape our perceptions of human beings and social norms.
In collaboration with Runkelstein Castle – Foundation Castles Bolzano

22. 09. 2026 - ​15:00 – 17:00
Story Encounters
Sweet Landscape—the multireferential work of the artist Evelyn Taocheng Wang winds its way into our innermost selves, reverberating with facets of our own cultural identities in ways that highlight our collective coexistence, while challenging stereotypes or notions of the so-called authentic. What associations do the works at Museion inspire in us? What does the exhibition’s multilayered title evoke? During this story encounter, we will exchange our thoughts and impressions of Wang’s Sweet Landscape.

03. 09. 2026 - ​19:00
Guided Tour with the Curator Leonie Radine (DE)

Every Saturday and Sunday - 14:00 – 18:00
Art Speakings (DE / IT / EN)
Starting a dialogue and encountering the Sweet Landscape exhibition firsthand: during the weekly Art Speakings, art mediators are available for individual conversations and in-depth discussions and guide participants in jointly experiencing the works of the exhibition.

Every Thursday - 19:00
Welcome!
Free evening guided tour (IT/DE)