Yen Ming-hung has long been committed to integrating space, education, and interdisciplinary art. He advocates for interaction between art and its site as a means of connecting with society. Through this platform, both viewers and artists can engage in the exchange of thoughts, fostering opportunities for dialogue and connection. Over the years, Yen has explored the international development of artistic practices and the social spirit embedded in public spaces. Drawing on his rich experience in local aesthetic education, he seeks to broaden the discourse of art and has developed a curatorial language that embodies both artistic sensitivity and cultural communicative power.

Employing the logic of public dialogue as articulated in the German concept of Kunst und öffentlichen Raum (Art and Public Space), Yen Ming-hung excels at transforming abstract ideas into tangible spatial expressions and models of public engagement. His approach has been widely practiced in campuses, art museums, and urban cultural spaces, expanding the scope of art’s influence, promoting public innovation through interdisciplinary art, and transforming urban aesthetics.

Since the 1990s, Yen has been engaged in research and fieldwork on public spaces in Europe and the Mediterranean region, accumulating extensive experience in cross-cultural comparison and regional cultural interpretation. Through a sustained exploration of spatial awareness, his artistic and curatorial practices not only respond to the spatial conditions and collective memory of contemporary society, but also attempt to foster civic engagement with aesthetics through cultural production, encouraging deeper dialogue between the local and the global.

Geographically situated in the south of Taiwan, Kaohsiung is a dynamic hub for cultural exchange, transit, and convergence. Kaohsiung serves as a gateway for Taiwan to engage with the world’s cultures, connecting cultural networks across East Asia, the Austronesian sphere, and even the Pacific Rim. The Great Art Museum Cluster of Kaohsiung comprises three distinct venues, each resonating with the city in its own unique way. These vibrant ripples extend from the museum park into the surrounding urban spaces and help shape Kaohsiung as a creative city with a distinctive regional cultural identity.

Yen Ming-hung has proposed four major strategies: developing regional cultural characteristics, rooting aesthetics in everyday life, promoting collaborative art education, and facilitating international cultural integration. These strategies aim to construct a curatorial model with multiple nodes and diverse cultural contexts, shaping the art museum as an artistic hub where citizens are drawn to linger and engage. By offering embodied experiences and encouraging deeper aesthetic readings of the museum’s “time” and “space,” the museum is transformed into a platform for exchange and co-creation. Through everyday practices of cultural formation and social participation, it evolves into a visionary, cross-scalar public cultural space that serves as a gateway to the world.