Airports have a key role to play in championing a city’s or country’s craft, culture, tastes and traditions. For visitors they offer the first and last impression of the locality, for that city’s citizens they provide a source of civic pride. An arts & culture programme connects passengers to a place in the same way an airport connects them to the world. Many airport companies embrace that role with pride and passion as we explore in our regular column.
Oriental Club Lounge is adding a vibrant cultural element to the passenger experience at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport with an exhibition featuring Taiwanese artist Lin Yu-Chin (EmmaAparty).
Reinforcing its role as a ‘platform for cultural exchange’, the lounge is showcasing ten works by the acclaimed artist through 7 January 2027, including Twins and A Carefree State.
Lin is recognised for her use of vivid colours and lively lines, with her rabbit character Meat Bun (Bah Pau) appearing across her work.
A co-branded calendar featuring Taiwanese motifs and Swinhoe’s pheasant will launch in October, giving travellers another way to engage with the exhibition beyond the lounge.
The exhibition builds on Oriental Club Lounge’s commitment to celebrating Taiwanese art and creative spirit, central to its cultural programme since 2023. Through ongoing exhibitions and collaborations with local artists, the lounge seeks to offer travellers a distinctive sense of Taiwan through art while creating a more engaging environment.
Oriental Club Lounge said, “Art helps bring energy and character to the lounge while creating more opportunities for travellers to pause, explore and interact.”
The exhibition offers travellers something to discover during their time in the lounge, with QR codes providing further details on the artists and their creative concepts. Guests are encouraged to take photos and share the works on social media.
Deepening its commitment to Taiwanese creativity, the lounge continues to provide a creative platform for artists from different creative backgrounds. Among them is Li Cheng-Hsun, named a Recommended Emerging Designer by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture in 2019, with works held in the collections of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and Macau’s Cultural Affairs Bureau.
Chen Hsu-Tzu has featured in London’s ‘Home: Taiwan’ exhibition and was among the awardees at the 2025 London Design Festival. Hwang Hsin has exhibited across Taipei and London, with her work collected by the UK’s Royal College of Art, Foshan’s Four Seasons Art Museum and private collectors.
Oriental Club Lounge’s ongoing art programme introduces Taiwanese artists to an international audience, helping the lounge earn Priority Pass’s ‘Highly Recommended’ recognition in Asia Pacific for two consecutive years and Taoyuan International Airport’s Service Excellence Award twice in three years.
Looking ahead, the company plans to expand its programme of curated exhibitions and cross-disciplinary collaborations, continuing to showcase Taiwan’s art and culture to international travellers. ✈
