Department of Cultural Affairs

Taipei’s tenth edition of Nuit Blanche is almost here! 

The city’s largest annual nighttime arts festival will take place from 2 pm on November 1 to 2 am on November 2, 2025. This milestone edition carries special meaning as it unfolds in Yuanshan, an area rich in history and collective memory. 

The event spans key locations including Yuanshan Natural Landscape Park (formerly the Taipei Children’s Amusement Park, 兒童育樂中心), Taipei Broadcasting Station, Yuanshan Tunnel (圓山坑道), and the Yuanshan section of Taipei Expo Park. It also connects with institutions such as the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and the King Car Cultural & Art Center, joining forces with the Taipei Biennial, Digital Art Festival Taipei, and Taipei Landscape Public Art Project (臺北地景公共藝術計畫). 

As night falls, familiar spaces will be transformed through art, becoming living canvases of creativity and community energy that invite visitors to experience Taipei’s past, present, and future through the lens of contemporary art.

When Art Enters Living History: “Hi Story”

The 2025 theme, Hi Story, playfully intertwines the word “History” with the greeting, “Hi,” using art as a means to revisit the past and awaken collective memory while inviting the public to become storytellers who help turn the pages of the city’s shared narrative. 

For the first time, the event’s main visual is based on paintings. Artist Ching-yuan Chen has contributed three works blending romanticism and surreal symbolism to create a nonlinear, allegorical visual language. The logotype, designed by Chung-lun Chiang, draws inspiration from the DNA double helix—a metaphor for the intertwining of history and personal memory, as though history were the genetic code of urban culture. Continuing this concept, the Hi Story typography uses fluid geometric strokes with the number “10” subtly embedded within the word “Story” to symbolize the 10th anniversary of Nuit Blanche Taipei.

French Curator Returns; Queer Ballroom Extravaganza and New Visual Works Take the Stage

This year, Nuit Blanche Taipei once again welcomes guest curator and former Nuit Blanche Paris artistic director Kitty Hartl, who has been collaborating with two French artists on dazzling new projects.

Lasseindra Lanvin, a legendary figure in France’s queer ballroom culture, will bring Voguing Ball: Scent of Fabrics to northern Taiwan for the first time— an exhilarating fusion of performance and visual art that reflects on Taiwan’s history and culture while celebrating diversity and identity. Meanwhile, Pierre Delavie will be presenting an all-new visual creation specially commissioned for this year’s event.

Together, these works transform audiences into more than observers: they become participants, catalysts, and integral parts of a living social landscape. The flow of crowds, spontaneous interactions, and collective movement through space will intertwine with the artworks to shape a new rhythm for the city. 

From Shrine to Playground: Five Thematic Zones of Art and Performance

Beyond the international lineup, chief curator Robbie Huang and performing arts director Yi-wen Cheng have conceived multiple projects inspired by local history to transform Yuanshan into a living dialogue between stories and places. 

The visual and performing arts will unfold across five curatorial themes: Slices of Time (時間切片), Echoes of History (歷史迴聲), Dream Wormholes (夢的蟲洞), Variations of Seeing (觀看變奏), and Fields in Bloom (綻放場域). 

Highlights include Zi-jie Yin’s Fairy Ring (named after naturally occurring rings of mushrooms that European folklore explained as elven dancing circles); Lien-yin Wu’s Mirage: Save As, which reimagines old amusement-park rockscapes with glowing lights and metallic reflections to conjure a dreamlike space between the virtual and the real; and Wen-chang Tsai × Yen-chun Lai’s A Falling Song, which transforms the former children’s amusement park into a temporal landscape, turning repurposed mattresses into soft musical keys that evoke memories of carefree evening excursions.

Art Descends into the Yuanshan Tunnel (圓山坑道): A 12-Hour Immersive Experience

This year’s Nuit Blanche strengthens its focus on live action and audience participation, featuring performances and installations inside the reopened Yuanshan Tunnel (圓山坑道). 

In The Sleep Building, artist Yen-yen Ho explores the resonance between sleep brainwaves and tidal rhythms, revealing the hidden architecture of dreams. 

Tsung-hsun Tsai’s The Transparent Pit consists of mirrored walls and entrances that reflect the tunnel’s space, guiding both performers and audiences through layers of history. 

Meanwhile, Chih Chiu’s Lasso Plant brings everyday objects into a wartime air-raid tunnel, transforming a once-defensive space into a serene realm between shelter and illusion, an immersive journey blurring the boundaries between memory, art, and lived experience.