# What Is Yuan Goang-Ming’s Everyday War at Wrightwood 659? By Marius Pașculea | 2026-11-06 HTML version: https://antre.art/blog/yuan-goang-ming-everyday-war-wrightwood-659-what-to-know/ > Yuan Goang-Ming: Everyday War at Wrightwood 659 through December 19, 2026: the Venice Biennale Taiwan Pavilion adapted as an immersive sound installation. $20, advance tickets. ## Short answer *Yuan Goang-Ming: Everyday War* is on view at Wrightwood 659, 659 West Wrightwood Avenue, Chicago, through December 19, 2026. The immersive video and sound installation by the Taiwanese new-media pioneer adapts his acclaimed Taiwan Pavilion exhibition from the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024. Advance tickets are required and cost $20. ## Key facts - **Who:** Yuan Goang-Ming, widely recognized as a pioneer of Taiwan’s new media art scene, celebrated for starkly poetic video and installation works about the fragmented, surreal nature of contemporary life. - **What:** *Everyday War*, an immersive large-scale installation that merges audio from several works into a single soundscape across the galleries, including the kinetic table *Prophecy* (2014). - **Where:** Wrightwood 659, 659 West Wrightwood Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614. - **When:** September 25 – December 19, 2026. - **Admission:** $20, advance ticket required. Open Wednesday and Thursday 1 to 8 PM, Friday 12 to 7 PM and Saturday 10 AM to 5 PM; last entry 90 minutes before closing. ## What will you see? Domestic life under an invisible threat. Yuan’s films evoke precarious everyday conditions: the eerie stillness of empty streets during Taiwan’s annual air-raid drills, or the chaotic aftermath of an explosion detonated in a living room. In *Prophecy* (2014), a kinetic table, glasses and dinnerware are shaken by an unseen force, subjecting the home to the unpredictably intrusive nature of war. Rather than presenting each video separately, the installation creates a unique soundscape throughout the galleries, merging and colliding audio from multiple works, so the visitor moves through a single, continuous field of tension. ## Why does this exhibition matter? The exhibition adapts Yuan’s presentation for the Taiwan Pavilion of the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024, curated by Abby Chen, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, and is organized by the Halsted A&A Foundation at Wrightwood 659, with support from the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan. Transforming intimate domestic spaces into metaphors for widespread instability, it captures the tenor of globally turbulent times; encountering it with the tools of [cultural mediation](https://antre.art/blog/what-is-cultural-mediation/) helps read those spaces on their own terms. ## How do you visit? Wrightwood 659 is at 659 West Wrightwood Avenue in Lincoln Park, open Wednesday and Thursday 1 to 8 PM, Friday 12 to 7 PM and Saturday 10 AM to 5 PM. Tickets cost $20 and must be booked in advance; the last entry is 90 minutes before closing, and a full loop of the video works rewards an unhurried visit. Our guide to [adaptive cultural mediation](https://antre.art/blog/what-is-adaptive-cultural-mediation/) explains how Antre thinks about pacing an encounter like this one. ## FAQ ### When does Yuan Goang-Ming: Everyday War close? The exhibition runs through December 19, 2026. ### How much are tickets? Tickets cost $20 and must be purchased in advance; walk-up entry is not guaranteed because admission is ticketed. ### What are the hours at Wrightwood 659? Wednesday and Thursday 1 to 8 PM, Friday 12 to 7 PM and Saturday 10 AM to 5 PM, with last entry 90 minutes before closing. ### Is this the exhibition from the Venice Biennale? Yes. It is adapted from Yuan Goang-Ming’s Taiwan Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024, curated by Abby Chen. ## About Antre Antre is building an app that gives artworks their context, starting with New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Join the waiting list at antre.art. ## Sources - Wrightwood 659, exhibition page for *Yuan Goang-Ming: Everyday War*: dates, concept, works, curation, address, hours and ticketing. More context: our guides to [Karla Wong’s Journeys of Being at Intuit Art Museum](https://antre.art/blog/karla-wong-journeys-of-being-intuit-museum-what-to-know/) and [Arocha-Schraenen’s Gaining Perspective at moniquemeloche](https://antre.art/blog/arocha-schraenen-gaining-perspective-moniquemeloche-what-to-know/). ## Be first when Antre opens. Join the waiting list for Antre, the adaptive cultural mediation app for Art Explorers, with hyper-personalized cultural context for every artwork, and Antre Art Voice, for galleries, artist-run spaces, artists and curators. One email at launch. Email address Join the waiting list Company I agree to receive an Antre launch email. I can withdraw anytime. [Privacy Policy](/privacy-policy/).