World Press Photo Book Showcase

10 – 28 Dec 2022, 07 am – 07 pm
Sóng Sánh Cafe
Floor 2, 48 Ngọc Hà, Ba Đình, Hà Nội

This showcase brings together books from the World Press Photo contests, featuring winning entries from 1955 until now. This collection re-introduces to local audiences great works that stand the test of time, while inviting them to actively reflect on their context at the time: significant global events, advances in camera technology, as well as the evolution of photojournalism practices through the years.

Also included are two photobooks of this year’s awarded projects, The Book of Veles by Jonas Bendiksen and Blue Affair by Kosuke Okahara.

This event takes place as part of the World Press Photo 2022 exhibition in Hanoi, kindly supported by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Vietnam.

ASEAN Music Festival 2022

Buu Chi Exhibition “The Time Captured Hand”
11 Dec 2022 – 04 Apr 2023, 09 am – 08 pm
REI Artspace
371/4 Hai Bà Trưng, District 3, HCMC

“The artists not only observe life but they have to live the life. The artworks ‘s Reality come before Beauty A piece of art speaks for the part of life that is shrouded in the shadow, an artist’s individual perception of reality.”
– Bửu Chỉ.

The exhibition “The Time Captured Hand” commemorates the 20th anniversary of the death of the legendary painter Buu Chi (October 8, 1948 – December 14, 2002).

In this exhibition, 28 artworks with many different materials such as lacquer, canvas, paper, etc are introduced. As well as introducing to the public REI’s exclusive artbook “The Time Captured Hand” includes his artworks and also contains articles about him. This brings readers a better perspective of his life, personal relationships, as well as style and inspirations.

Until Jan 7, 2023, 9am-9pm

Hoa Sen Universtiy’s main campus and Thanh Thai Campus

“Looking Beyond” exhibition showcases artworks of the Earth captured by COSMO-SkyMed constelation

The highlight of the exhibition are two remarkable photos of Hanoi and the Mekong Delta provided by the VNSC that illustrate the applications of satellite images in remote sensing and disaster prevention in the country.

Serie de Formas de Arte Moderno en la Naturaleza: 01
26 Nov – 31 Dec 2022
Ơi Blin Saigon
289E, Nguyễn Công Trứ, Nguyễn Thái Bình Ward, District 1, HCMC

LInspired by Kunstformen der Natur (Art forms of Nature) of Ernst Haeckel, 365 Days of UNKNOWN curated the first of the Serie de formas de arte moderno en la naturaleza (Series of Modern Art forms in Nature), an exhibition of botanical art which are well worth seeing, immerse yourself in a colorful botanical world full of giant insects, flowers, and plants created by 3 artists Irina Semenyuk, Alex Nguyen và Nikii Tran.

Exhibition “25 Days in Saigon”

Until Dec 31, 09 am – 06 pm
11:11 Espace, Floor 1, 30 Nguyen Duy Hieu Street, Thu Duc City

Continuing with a series of introducing global artists with a unique artistic vision, 11:11 d’Artistes returns with the solo exhibition of Charles Husser – a French visual artist and plasticien who specializes in painting on wood and creating wooden sculptures inspired by daily life in Saigon.

Charles’s vision of art is to never focus on complex subjects that serve only as an excuse to paint or sculpt; instead, he looks for things that are visually accessible from everyday life.

Charles was inspired by his observations during his 25-day stay in Saigon, where he got to travel from corner to corner of the city, went to the village to acknowledge the life of locals, and even attempted to experience local activities from early morning until late at night, such as eating and sleeping on a traditional Vietnamese wooden bed, buying street food, and lying on a hammock.

Exhibition “Story of Vu”

Until Feb 25, 2023

Ánh Dương Art Space, Long Bien Golf Club Building, 918 Regiment, Phuc Dong, Long Bien District

Hanoi Studio Gallery, 23-25 Mac Dinh Chi Street, Ba Dinh District

A short and simple name to be an open introduction to the Vietnamese art lovers in this solo exhibition of artist Tran Trong Vu. With a collection of three parts.

Part One is a series of 16 new works composed in 2022 with “Story of Vu”.

Part Two is a series of 8 works composed in 1998 as an unveiling by artist Tran Trong Vu. At that time, his father, poet Tran Dan, had just gone, while the artist was very far away from his homeland Vietnam, both distance and time, as well as from what happened decades ago. Only then did he read his father’s poetry with great attention- and his mind started to relive the moments of his father’s poetry. The set of 8 paintings, composed with emotions leading and interacting with words in his father’s poetry, was first introduced to the Vietnamese art lovers.

The final part of the collection is an installation piece called “Those Years” which he introduced in Bordeaux – France in 2021. In this exhibition, the public audience in Vietnam will have the opportunity to interact and to live in the emotions of Vu – a place where Vu is Vu, and also can be Us, in the anxiety, the suspense, the hide-and-seek, the face-to-face, and the intertwined old memories.

“Story of Vu” will be exhibited at Anh Duong Art Space. “Part Two” will be introduced separately at Hanoi Studio Gallery, 23-25 Mac Dinh Chi, Truc Bach, Ba Dinh, Hanoi from 18 Dec 2022.

Exhibitions featuring Hue’s national heritage
Until Dec 23,

Diem Phung Thi Art Centre, 17 Le Loi Street,

An art exhibition showcasing the charming beauty of Phuoc Tich ancient village in Hue.

The exhibition displays 38 artworks by lecturers and students of the College of Fine Arts and the College of Science, both under Hue University. Paintings created by school students of Phong Dien District, home to Phuoc Tich Village, also are on display.

All the paintings are the result of field trips to the village in October.

Don’t Call It Art
19 Nov – 31 Dec 2022
Mơ Art Space
B3 Floor, no. 136 Hang Trong Street, Hoan Kiem District

“I could not imagine then that some of these photos would become the only documentation, for example, of the first stirrings of a performance art scene in Vietnam. Now, 25 years later in Germany – as an observer or a temporary visitor at best, who gleans news about Vietnam’s well-connected international art scene from daily social network chats with friends there – all these works and photos appear to me in quite a different light. They are no longer just gifts, pictures forgotten or discarded as worthless, but rather artworks that have written contemporary history. They had once been a provocative force in their time and place. Here today, this force may seem spent. But to me, now more than ever, it seems as if the artists presented in this book, with their radical stances, were far ahead of their time. Perhaps that is precisely why they fell by the wayside. They became legends before their work could become a permanent and officially recognized part of Vietnam’s art.”

Artists: Nguyễn Minh Thành, Nguyễn Quang Huy, Trương Tân
Featuring artwork from Veroninka Radulovic’s archive
The exhibited pieces were created during the 1990s – a period of significance

Exhibition: Illuminated Curiosities
Until Dec 2022
EMASI Nam Long
147 Street No.8, Nam Long Residential area, District 7,
EMASI Van Phuc
2 Street No.5, Van Phuc Residential City, Thu Duc District,

Nguyen Art Foundation (NAF) proudly invites you to the opening of ‘Illuminated Curiosities’, a group exhibition with 26 artists featuring 46 artworks from within and outside NAF’s Collection. Curated by art researcher Ace Le, with the curatorial assistance from Duong Manh Hung and Tam Nguyen, the exhibition will take place simultaneously across the campuses of EMASI Nam Long and EMASI Van Phuc, over the course of six months from May to December of 2022. ‘Illuminated Curiosities’ is a collaborative effort between NAF and Lan Tinh Foundation.

International science film festival
Oct 8 - Dec 31
Hanoi, Thai Nguyen, Danang, and Ho Chi Minh City

The 12th international science film festival featuring a range of scientific topics which are both accessible and entertaining to a broad audience and demonstrates that science can be fun and educational.

Some 16 science films across different categories will be screened during the festival.

Le Ha