Hualien Sculpture Festival to feature light installations, music

2026-10-28

This year’s edition of the Hualien International Stone Sculpture Festival will kick off in November. Based on the theme "under the skin of the earth," participating artists have been invited to explore the relationship between humans and the environment. Light installations and a concert featuring Golden Melody Award winners will be joining nine local and foreign artists who will showcase their original work.

Artists focus intently on their work, chipping away to bring the sculpture hidden inside the stone to life. The Hualien International Stone Sculpture Festival returns this year, featuring original work commissioned by the county government. This year’s theme, “under the skin of the earth,” likens the surface of the earth to an epidermis, interpreted differently by each sculptor.

Chen Hsuan-yu
Sculptor
The ocean here in Hualien is unique for Taiwan. It plunges straight down into a massive and extremely deep fault line. The fault line paired with the mountains creates a giant wall formed by the cliffs and the sea.

Lee Po-yuan
Sculptor
It’s about how the language of two people’s bodies interact. To me, boulders bring a sense of silent power.

Artists are incorporating Hualien’s dramatic ocean cliffside and the silent majesty of its rocky monoliths into their work. At the same time, the popular installation Breathing Stones, which drew 90,000 people to Sunrise Boulevard in Hualien the last time it was displayed, will come to Danongdafu Forest Park. The Hualien County Museum of Art will also feature many stone sculptures.

Chen Chien-tsun
Hualien Cultural Affairs Bureau director
We’ve invited sculptors who have come to Hualien before for the International Stone Sculpture Festival to come back and share their work again with all of us art lovers here in Hualien.

As a treat for the ears as well as the eyes, there will also be a concert held on the opening day of the festival. The exciting event is to feature Golden Melody-winning musicians Rich Huang and Baby Chung playing alongside renowned Swiss trumpeter Yannick Barman for a genre-spanning event to celebrate the start of this festival of the arts.

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花蓮石雕藝術季11/1登場戶外光影裝置展.金曲音樂會

2026-10-28

今年的花蓮國際石雕藝術季，將在11月1號盛大開幕，這一次的主題「膚土之下」，強調人與自然環境的互動關係。除了有戶外光影裝置展，以及金曲音樂會，還邀請國內外共九位的石雕藝術家，進行不同的石雕創作與交流，邀請民眾一同來參與這一場藝術盛宴。

藝術家全神貫注，把石塊粗胚，雕刻成心中的藝術，花蓮國際石雕藝術季，今年盛大舉行，縣府特別邀請國內外的藝術家，進行石雕創作。這次的主題是「膚土之下」，將地球表面比喻成皮膚，藝術家的作品也各有特色。

[[石雕藝術家陳宣宇]]
“花蓮這邊的海就是臺灣比較特別的，就是它就是下去，就是一個超級深的大斷層，然後把這個大斷層結合了山，然後就變成說是一座海加山的，一個很大的高牆。”

[[石雕藝術家李伯元]]
“兩個人物的肢體語言去做配合。巨石對我來說，它是帶給我一種無聲的力量。”

藝術家將花蓮山海相連的美景，以及巨石無聲的震撼，融入作品中。另外，日前在花蓮市日出大道，吸引近9萬人次爭相感受的裝置藝術，石頭在呼吸，也將在大農大富平地森林園區展出，美術館也有石雕可以看。

[[花蓮縣政府文化局長陳建村]]
“我們也邀請歷年曾經來過花蓮，參加國際石雕藝術季的石雕家們，再一次回來到花蓮，一同呈現在我們所有喜愛藝術文化的朋友的眼前。”

滿足了視覺還有聽覺，開幕當天重磅推出「金曲傳奇．石光共鳴音樂會」，邀請兩位台灣金曲音樂家黃瑞豐、鍾興民，以及知名瑞士小號演奏家亞尼克・巴曼，帶來跨界音樂，與民眾一同感受藝術盛宴。

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