During the Lunar New Year holiday, where to go?

If you happen to be in Taiwan, why not take a journeythrough light and shadow in northern Tainan?

This year, Bug 2 Gallery is honored to become the firstTaiwanese gallery to participate in Art Rotterdam, one of the Netherlands’major contemporary art fairs.

During the New Year period, Bug 2 Gallery will present a 10-daypreview exhibition—
the works on view will travel to the Netherlands in March for Art Rotterdam,and will not return to Taiwan after the fair.

🗓 Exhibition Information
Dates｜Feb 19(Thu) – Feb 28 (Sat)

📸 Artist Walkthroughs
Feb 19 (Thu) 15:00
Feb 21 (Sat) 15:00

📸 Open Studio Sessions
Feb 20 (Fri) 15:00
Feb 27 (Fri) 15:00
Feb 28 (Sat) 15:00

Viewing｜Toensure a comfortable viewing experience,
please make a reservation in advance: +886 921 937 028 (LINE ID: search phonenumber)

🌙 Plan a Lunar New Year itinerarytogether

Visit the exhibition, and also enjoy these illuminatedevents nearby:
• Yanshui Yuejin Lantern Festival
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YpolrfnbL1I
• Xinying Swan Lake Shimmer Festival
https://triptainan.tw/2026xingyingshimmer/

View artworks during the day, lights at night—
let art flow naturally through your holiday.

🧐 About these works: how did they becomewhat they are today?

Pascal van der Graaf began folding paper at the age of four.

In 2007, he received the Dutch Royal Award for Paintingwith two black-and-white works. For him, paper folding and painting havealways been two parallel lines running through his life.

In 2022, he made a crucial decision—
to fold the canvas itself, treating it like paper.

Building on this, he further incorporated automotivecolor-shifting paints, allowing the surface to change with viewing angleand light, creating a visual experience that feels futuristic, restrained, andprecise.

Over the past four years, his artistic development has beenclear and continuous:
• from early folded-canvas experiments
• to explorations of horizontal and vertical folds (among them, Ruo Shuiwon Second Prize in the 2025 New Taipei City Sculpture Category)
• to the development of the Incense Pouch Series and the BerniniSeries
• last year, during artist Jan Maarten Voskuil’s residency in Xinying,Pascal learned to build his own frames; the current Bloom Seriesrepresents his latest phase, expanding further upon the foundation of deformedframes × sculpted canvas.

✨ Why is it worth seeing now?

This is not merely an exhibition, but a moment oftransition in an artistic trajectory.

These works will leave Taiwan in March, entering a differentcultural and viewing context.

For collectors who follow an artist’s creative development,this is a rare opportunity to contemplate acquisition before the workschange location.

If you would like to see “what they look like right now”before their departure,
we look forward to meeting you in person.

Bug 2 Gallery