”At the Roots, the Mirage is Clear”

10 am – 07 pm, Tues – Sun 10 Dec 2023 – 04 Feb 2024
Gate Gate Gallery, 55 Văn Miếu, Đống Đa, Hà Nội

Wandering through a forest or amidst a sprawling landscape, we see how nature is crafting space for symbiosis. The term “roots” assumes diverse forms: the arboreal roots of trees, the origins of problems, the tendrils of hair, or the underpinnings of one’s being. Each manifestation gestures towards a depth, submerged and concealed, typically eluding immediate perception. Yet, paradoxically, these concealed facets serve as the genesis, the unfurling, the descent, and the culmination of all things. So why do we call them roots? How can our roots be discerned, discovered, or sensed? Where are we when we realised we are at the roots?

Gate Gate proudly represents “At the roots, the mirage is clear | Dưới gốc, mờ ảo hiện” – A thoughtful dialogue between artists Nguyen TraMi and Vũ Trung as they embark their journey to find their nature and origins. While the works of Trà Mi Nguyễn and Vũ Đức Trung hold distinct and distinguished positions, they also somehow engage in dialogues between the traditions of their respective crafts. These dialogues offer viewers an alternative context, encouraging them to observe and perceive not only as folk art but also to extend their reflections to contemporary society. In this dynamic exchange, art becomes a bridge that connects past and present, inviting us to contemplate the evolving culture and society. Deeper still, they connect us as we contemplate the roots, for it is in returning to the roots that the mirage becomes apparent.

Exhibition curated by Nam Nguyen.

Workshop: “Forms & Figures”

02 pm – 05 pm, 15 – 17 Dec 2023
Gallery Medium, 240B Pasteur, Võ Thị Sáu Ward, District 3, HCMC

Gallery Medium presents the exclusive “Forms & Figures” workshops, hosted by 42art. The workshops, each centered around distinct themes – “Bling Bling,” Movement, and Traditional Costume.

42art comprises a collective of vibrant, young artists hailing from Hanoi, including artist Zunng, Quyết Dương, Cao Thục, Lê Anh Dũng and Đào Thảo Phương. Their portfolio boasts numerous successful exhibitions, such as “Toi la chung ta” Group Exhibition 2020 , Art For you 2020 and Hanoi Art Connecting 5 2022.

During Forms & Figures workshops, participants will engage in live sketching sessions guided by the expertise of the five talented members of 42art, and experience the art of capturing the forms and movement of figure models

Fri 15 Dec – Workshop “Bling Bling”
Female figure wearing radiant colored & modern fashion

Sat 16 Dec – Workshop “Movement”
Graceful and dynamic dancing movements

Sun 17 Dec – Workshop “Traditional Costume”
Female Figure wearing Northern traditional costume

Exhibition “Unveiling Boundaries: Reflections of The Fish Tank”

10 am – 06 pm, 17 Nov – 17 Dec 2023
Villa Medium, 240B Pasteur, Ward Vo Thi Sau, District 3, HCMC

Devon Nguyễn debuts the “Unveiling Boundaries: Reflections of The Fish Tank” exhibition at Villa Medium, in collaboration with Gallery Medium, displaying 31 abstract paintings. This exhibition marks a turning point for Devon as she reinvents herself as a contemporary abstract artist.

Devon Nguyễn is a fashion designer who graduated from University of the Art London, renowned for nurturing many prominent design names in the world, such as Jimmy Choo and Stella McCartney.

In recent years, Devon has undergone a creative transformation, reinventing herself as a contemporary abstract artist. “Unveiling Boundaries: Reflections of The Fish Tank” is Devon Nguyen’s second solo exhibition in collaboration with Gallery Medium, a multifaceted contemporary art gallery, featuring more than 30 abstract paintings.

Through the exhibition ‘Unveiling Boundaries: Reflections of The Fish Tank,’ viewers are invited to contemplate the symbolic meaning of the fish tank as an expression of human confinement within societal norms.

Outdoor display of antique artifacts 

Until the end of 2024, Pleiku City, Gia Lai Province

An outdoor exhibition entitled “Tay Nguyen – Gia Lai Paradise” displaying antique artifacts of local ethnic people.

Highlights of the exhibition are a white elephant bone chair dating back 700 years and a collection of elephant hunting tools dating back more than 100 years of the M'Nong ethnic group.

On display are thousands of antique artifacts of collector Dang Minh Tam, including musical instruments, hunting and weaving tools, ceremonial objects, jewelry items and other items in the life of ethnic groups in the five Central Highlands provinces.

Hue International Music Week 2023

Dec 8-12, Ngo Mon Gate (Noon Gate).

The Hue International Music Week 2023 titled “Four Seasons Melody”, featuring renowned names in international contemporary music scene, including pop stars from the Wallonia-Bruxelles delegation of Belgium, Andrienne Mack-Davis and DJ 32 of France, hip-hop artists from the United States, French songwriter and singer Sébastien Tellier, French electro-pop singer and songwriter Malik Djoudi, and Korean jazz singer Young Joo Song.

Furthermore, popular Vietnamese singer and bands such as Trong Hieu, the Nine Family Hue group, the Redlight band, and Limebócx music band will also perform at the function.

Exhibition “Transfiguration”

06 – 20 Dec 2023
The Muse Artspace, 47 Treng Tien Street, Hanoi

Vu Hiep undertook a long and strenuous path when concurrently researching fine art and the artistic application of architecture, resulting in his eccentric art form. One that was molded from Vietnamese spiritual values, architecture, ancient sculpture, and peculiar artistry with a surreal touch from the traditional painting material, silk.Only a few contemporary painters pursue a path with such a distinct and coherent mindset. A prominent attribute in Vu Hiep’s paintings is the integration of traditional folklore, with its vague yet witty humor, and sometimes exaggeration (or “sass” – stated by the artist when talking about Vietnamese artistic identity).

Overvoltage

17 Nov – 31 Dec 2023
High-voltage electric station 33B, Gia Lâm Train Factory
551 Nguyễn Văn Cừ, Gia Thụy, Long Biên, Hà Nội

Vietnam Art Collection (VAC) is delighted to present ‘Overvoltage’, a site-responsive intervention by Vy Trịnh, curated by Vân Đỗ and organized by Á Space.

The scanner stops working suddenly, total black out. A train crashed, the chassis is burning into hazy ashes and flames. No one knows what has happened. The clock ticks backwards, time stops then runs again x 5.0 speed. The sculptor arrives on an Akira slide. Everything is pitch black. The last light bulb begins to flicker.

Space is the main material in ‘Overvoltage’. Taking an existing site – an electric supply room – as an organic and mechanical site, both human and nonhuman, ‘Overvoltage’ witnesses an encounter between existing traces of an overall architectural structure and a sculptor who will produce on site, within a specific time frame, using materials sourced from electrical supply stores, adhering to the industry and the ecologies within the factory and nearby the site (Long Biên District).

‘Overvoltage’ proposes that a particular site is not necessarily overcast by its socio-political shadows, but can rather be felt and made present – like how electricity current delivers, flows, and interrupts – through affect. Through Vy’s methodology of active working on-site, the train factory becomes her motor in revealing the kind of personality it once was and is as of now – being exposed, intervened, coming into sudden contact with strangers, awaiting an undetermined future.

MAP 2023 | The Alternative Mobility

Exhibition: 10 am – 06 pm, 28 Nov – 17 Dec 2023 (except Monday)
High Voltage Building 33B, Gia Lam Train Factory, Ngoc Lam, Long Bien, Hanoi.

Heritage Space is delighted to introduce a contemporary art exhibition titled “Alternative Mobility” , featuring the works of Vietnamese and international artists. The exhibition is a part of Month of Art Practice MAP 2023 – an annual international exchange project dedicated to promoting contemporary art initiated and has been organized by Heritage Space since 2015. This exhibition is also a part of the Hanoi Creative Design Festival 2023 with the theme “Flow”.

Mobility changes the world in all aspects. What does mobility mean in the face of unstable environmental, political, and social conditions? Month of Art Practice (MAP) invited artists with a diversity of perspectives to explore the topic from a personal to a global level, creating different narratives and nuanced images. MAP 2023 – The Alternative Mobility is a collaboration between Hochschule für Künste Bremen (HfK) and Heritage Space in Hanoi, Vietnam, and part of the BMBF Collaborative Research Project Bremen Goes Sustainable – BreGoS. At both locations, a group of international artists and curators worked together with local artists and students. The results will be shown in parallel in Bremen and Hanoi in two exhibitions launched at the end of November 2023.

The four invited artists Sylbee Kim (Berlin/Seoul), Felix Dreesen (Bremen), Kayle Brandon (Bristol), and Quỳnh Lâm (Ho Chi Minh City) are participating in the Bremen exhibition, together with the five HfK students Alexander Schröter, Jamie Yzabel Santos, Jisu Kim, Mohar Kalra and Renen. Further contributions of the Hanoi group come from invited artists Gemini Kim (Seoul) and Hwayong Kim (Seoul), Yuhei Higashikata (Hokkaido), Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah (Zurich), the curators Moon-Seok Yi (Seoul), Burkhard Melzer (Bern), Jieon Lee (Seoul) and the Vietnamese artists Ngô Đình Bảo Châu (Ho Chi Minh City), Hoàng Anh Nguyễn (Danang), Sarah Morag (Ho Chi Minh City), Nguyễn Vũ Hải (Hanoi). The project is led by Nguyễn Anh Tuấn (Heritage Space Hanoi) and Ingo Vetter (HfK Bremen).

Exhibition “Now We Are 10″