Kuandu Bird Art launches with a nature festival built around a mythical wetland habitat

The 2026 Kuandu Bird Art program launched in Taipei on September 2, bringing together the Kuandu International Nature Art Festival and the Taipei International Birdwatching Fair.

The art festival opens on September 13 with the theme “Mythical Habitat: Whispers of the Gods in the Wetlands.” Artists from Taiwan and abroad will create works in the wetland, exploring connections between mythology, nature and local culture. One installation will be presented in cooperation with Kuandu Temple, an important local religious landmark, linking regional belief with the wetland environment.

The festival will continue through December 31. Its autumn and winter program will include the 28th Taipei International Birdwatching Fair, which begins on October 17 under the theme “Birds Rely on People.” Exhibitions, games and lectures will introduce visitors to bird ecology, conservation concerns and the difficulties urban birds face.

Taipei Department of Economic Development Commissioner Chen Chun-an said wetlands had developed over a very long period, while mythology emerged as ancient people engaged with nature. Bringing the two together allows artists to explore how imagined culture, nature and myth can enter into dialogue with the wetland as a natural setting.

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In the artists’ works, we can see how their imagined culture, imagined nature and imagined mythology enter into dialogue with the wetland and are built into this natural setting.