During the Lunar New Year holiday, where to go?

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

This year, Bug 2 Gallery is honored to become the first Taiwanese 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-day preview 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｜To ensure a comfortable viewing experience,
please make a reservation in advance: +886 921 937 028 (LINE ID: search phonenumber)

🌙 Plan a Lunar New Year itinerary together

Visit the exhibition, and also enjoy these illuminated events 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 become what they are today?

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

In 2007, he received the Dutch Royal Award for Painting with two black-and-white works. For him, paper folding and painting have always 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 automotive color-shifting paints, allowing the surface to change with viewing angle and light, creating a visual experience that feels futuristic, restrained, and precise.

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

✨ Why is it worth seeing now?

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

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

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