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Talk | “Hanoi in 2048″
09:30 am – 11:30 am, Thurs 07 Dec 2023
Vietnamese Women’s Museum
No. 36 Ly Thuong Kiet, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
Future Ancestors is a global intensive program taking place in Hanoi in November/December 2023 which brings together RMIT students from creative disciplines in Melbourne and Hanoi. They will work with industry guest mentors on real-world collaborative projects to explore issues at the intersection of contemporary creative practice and questions of cultural heritage. The starting point is to speculate about Hanoi in 25 years time, and ask what role creative practitioners might play in preserving and/or creating ‘future heritage’, and so, how can we be ‘good ancestors’ through practice?
In this session, participants will reflect on the experience and share outcomes of our three collaborative projects:
1. Weaving the Future: Sustainable Textile Craft and Fashion Design in Vietnam
2. Extending Heritage: XR & Expanded Imaging for communication
3. Inner-city Commute: How do questions of history, urban design, climate change and inclusivity influence movement around the city now and into the future?
Language: Bilingual English and Vietnamese (Translation Available)
The event is organised by RMIT University Vietnam and RMIT University Melbourne.
Speakers:
– Dr Alan Hill: Lecturer/Program Manager, Bachelor of Arts (Photography), RMIT University Melbourne.
– Thao Nguyen: Vietnamese-Australian artist, educator and researcher based in Naarm/Melbourne.
– Michal Teague: Associate Lecturer in Design Studies, School of Communication and Design, RMIT University Vietnam.
Connecting Heritage
08:30 am – 04 pm, 01 – 07 Dec 2023
Huu Vu House, Temple of Literature
58 Quoc Tu Giam Street, Dong Da District, Hanoi
This multimedia showcases celebrates the distinct cultural legacies of the Bahnar and Chăm communities from 4 villages – Mơ H’ra and K’Giang (Bahnar community) in Gia Lai province, and Bàu Trúc and Mỹ Nghiệp (Chăm community) in Ninh Thuận province. The intangible cultural heritages of these communities are highlighted – with a particular focus on traditional pottery, hand weaving, and music. In addition, the showcase includes a dynamic programme of workshops, music sharing sessions by representative folk artists from the two communities, guest artists, researchers and culture experts. Overall, the showcase creates an engaging kaleidoscope of sound, color, and image, presenting an exploration of some of the unique social characteristics of each community. These two distinctive and remarkable communities share a connection to their land, their traditional culture and language, and a spirited dedication to sustainable preservation through protecting, developing, and sharing of their cultural heritage.
Performance of ballet The Nutcracker
Dec 8, 9, and 10
The HCM City Opera House, 7 Lam Son Square, D1
The two-part classical ballet revolves around young Clara who receives a magical nutcracker doll from her godfather on Christmas Eve. Incredibly, the nutcracker comes to life and leads her through a fantastical world of dancing snowflakes, dreamy sweets, and the fearsome Mouse King.
The ballet was first performed by the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) in 2001 as part of the Transposition Programme of the government of Norway to bring classical music projects to Vietnam.
This year's performance will feature Do Hoang Khang Ninh as Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy, and Meritorious Artist Ho Phi Diep as the Nutcracker and the Cavalier.
Tickets are available at the venue.
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.
Art for You 16th Edition
09:30 am – 08 pm, 30 Nov – 10 Dec 2023
Manzi Art Space, 14 Phan Huy Ích, Hà Nội
Art For You, the affordable art fair organised by Manzi Art Space and Work Room Four is back in Hanoi this December with its 16th edition. Buying art from Art For You is a simple way to support your local artistic community through being a patron of the arts, every purchase you make here, has a direct impact on local practitioners.
The fair was founded in 2014 with the ambition to remunerate artists for their work and support independent art spaces in Hanoi.
The art fair has grown into an anticipated art event trusted by artists and audience alike.
We will be showing over 200 artists showcasing over 400 pieces of Art in this fair.
The fair is a thoughtfully displayed and well curated selection of Vietnam’s most exciting talent and ensures that both seasoned and novice buyers of art find something extraordinary to take home.
MAP 2023 | The Alternative Mobility
* Opening: 06 pm – 09 pm, Fri 24 Nov 2023
Exhibition: 25 Nov – 10 Dec 2023
Dauerwelle ship
Hochschule für Künste Bremen (HfK), Deutschland
* Opening: 04 pm – 07 pm, Sun 26 Nov 2023
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″
09:30 am – 06 pm, 13 Nov – 31 Dec 2023
Work Room Four, 31 alley 67 Tô Ngọc Vân, Tây Hồ, Hà Nội
Work Room Four invite you to join us for their 10th birthday celebration exhibition “Now We Are 10”
To mark this milestone – and in keeping with tradition – we are combining classical and contemporary exhibition styles and we look forward to welcoming you to an interactive experience combined with multi-artist fine art contributions.
In June 2023 Work Room Four turned 10. We are celebrating this remarkable milestone with this exhibition. It has been an amazing decade of creating, making and learning, our journey has been enriched with a wealth of memories, invaluable learning processes and incredible projects and partnerships. 10 years on, we stand with an even greater passion to continue championing and promoting art and design from Vietnam to a wider audience. “Now we are 10” is an exhibition designed to unite artists, designers and community.
The exhibition is divided into two parts, the first element is an open submission showcase of over 70 pieces of decade specific work by our creative network of artists and designers.
The second component is interactive and invites our audience and community to consider creativity as a subject matter through a series of installations – What is creativity and why is it important?
Japanese Film Festival in Vietnam 2023
27 Oct – 21 Dec 2023
27 Oct – 09 Nov 2023
Cinestar Hai Bà Trưng, 135 Hai Bà Trưng, Bến Nghé, D.1, HCMC
01 – 03 Dec 2023
Rạp Galaxy Nguyễn Kim
Floor 7, TTTM Nguyễn Kim
104 Lương Khánh Thiện, Ngô Quyền, Hải Phòng
08 – 21 Dec 2023
National Cinema Centre
87 Láng Hạ, Ba Đình, Hà Nội
Despite it has not even been a month yet since the Japan Hour 2023 ended on October 8 with great success, The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam (The Japan Foundation) proudly present the “Japanese Film Festival 2023” – an annually held event for movie lovers in Vietnam. The festival will soon take place in Ho Chi Minh City (October 27 – November 9), Da Nang (November 17 – 19), Hai Phong (December 1 – 3) and Hanoi (December 8 – 21).
Film list (Films are screened with Vietnamese and English subtitles)
(except for “A Man” and “The First Slam Dunk”, which have Vietnamese subtitle only)
1) The Water Flows To The Sea (T16)
水は海に向かって流れる
2023 / 123′ / drama / dir. MAEDA Tetsu”
2) Liar x Liar (T16)
ライアー×ライアー
2021 / 117′ / comedy, romance / dir. YAKUMO Saiji”
3) The First Slam Dunk (T13) ※ Only with Vietnamese subtitle
2022 / 124′ / anime / dir. INOUE Takehiko”
4) The Father Of The Milky Way Railroad (K)
銀河鉄道の父
2023 / 128′ / drama / dir. NARUSHIMA Izuru”
5) The Lines That Define Me (K)
線は、僕を描く
2022 / 106′ / drama / dir. KOIZUMI Nori”
6) Brave: Gunji Senki (T16)
ブレイブ – 群青戦記
2021 / 115′ / action / dir. MOTOHIRO Katsuyuki”
7) A Man (T16) ※ Only with Vietnamese subtitle
ある男
2022 / 121′ / drama / dir. ISHIKAWA Kei”
8) We Made A Beautiful Bouquet (T16)
花束みたいな恋をした
2021 / 124′ / drama, romance / dir. DOI Nobuhiro”
Exhibition “White Blank”
Until Dec 9, 10 am – 07 pm, Tues – Sat,
Galerie Quynh, 118 Nguyen Van Thu Street, D1, HCM City
Galerie Quynh is pleased to present ‘White Blank’ – a highly anticipated exhibition of new works by Paris-based artist Tran Nu YênKhê. Known internationally in film for acting, art direction and costume design, YênKhê has been making art quietly for over three decades, though rarely exhibits her work publicly. In her first solo exhibition at the gallery, new and recent works created in Paris and Ho Chi Minh City are being presented for the first time.
In the series of sculptures titled ‘White Blank’, YênKhê creates fluid forms that provide a source of meditation and relief from the turmoil of the world in which we live. Made in a range of materials from plaster, cast bronze and composite, the soft, organic structures are unrecognizable as specific entities yet at the same time, feel familiar. Inspired by a quote from Kandinsky, “White sounds as a silence, a nothing before any beginning,” YênKhê’s sculptures are entirely white – the works only become tangible through the presence of light. They are defined entirely through subtle shadows and highlights; any change in light engenders a transformation of their anatomy.
Exhibition “Birdsong”
Until Dec 17, 11 am – 07 pm, Tues – Sun
Manzi Exhibition Space
No. 2 Hàng Bún alley, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi
An exhibition by Trần Trung Tín entitled ‘Birdsong’ on the occasion of the late artist’s 90th birthday anniversary
Trần Trung Tín (1933 – 2008), a talented man with an exceptional life born into a bizarre epoch, had started painting merely as a way to go through the aftermath of an ideological crisis. Stuck in the extreme disillusionment and suppression, forbidden to speak up his thoughts or write out his opinions, Trần Trung Tín began to draw. In such a strange twist of fate, the used-to-be actor/announcer/film screenwriter then spent the entire last half of his life painting ceaselessly and quietly, and unexpectedly became the most absurd and brilliant phenomenon of Vietnamese art.
Exhibition recalls liberation of Hanoi
Until Dec 31, Hoa Lo Prison,
An exhibition, named “The Roar of the Red River” which has two parts.
The first part features Hanoi’s preparations for a long resistance war following President Ho Chi Minh’s appeal for national resistance against the French.
The second part highlights the significance of the Dien Bien Phu Campaign in 1954, which forced the French to sign the Geneva Accords and withdraw their troops from northern Vietnam.
Exhibition “A Tide of Emotions”
10 am – 09:30 pm, 04 Oct 2023 – 30 Mar 2024
Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (VCCA)
B1–R3, Vincom Mega Mall Royal City
72A Nguyễn Trãi, Thanh Xuân, Hà Nội
From October 04, 2023, to March 30, 2024, at Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (VCCA), the large-scale installation exhibition “A Tide of Emotions” will be presented to public view for the first time in Vietnam, featuring artworks by Japanese female artist Chiharu Shiota, a worldwide famous name in conceptual art.
Chiharu Shiota is revered as one of Asia’s foremost female visionaries in the global realm of contemporary art. Through decades of her artistic odyssey, Shiota has ventured across a spectrum of creative realms, from the ephemeral dance of performance art to the silent reverie of painting, the tangible whispers of sculpture to the immersive embrace of installation. Shiota’s works are a convergence of beauty in both form and content, both making a strong visual impression and containing countless layers of deep meaning within.
The exhibition “A Tide of Emotions” includes completely new works made at VCCA. Notably, the main work with the same title covers VCCA’s huge space with a network of red threads, which are the representative material of the artist, linked to the wooden boats which carry history and stories and harbour multitudes of metaphors for a land like Vietnam, where a coastline stretches long as the eye can trace.
Chiharu Shiota (born 1972) is a Japanese contemporary artist, currently based in Berlin, Germany. Shiota is among the most active and successful contemporary artists in the world today whose works have been displayed in many prestigious museums and exhibitions in the region. She was chosen as the artist representing Japan at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), one of the oldest and most reputable international art events in the world held every two years in Venice, Italy.
Exhibition “Plan of Summer”
10 am – 05 pm, 23 Sep – 31 Dec 2023
Artigin Art Space
Main lobby of Lotte Mall Westlake office building
683 Lac Long Quan Street, Phu Thuong Ward, Tay Ho District, Hanoi
Artigin Art Space is pleased to introduce to art lovers the exhibition Plan of the Summer, with the participation of 6 artists- Do Minh Tam, Tran Hai Minh, Dam Dang Lai, Tran An, Can Van An, Dinh Duy Ton.
The exhibition Plan of the Summer delves into the memories and sounds of summer in each of us, in order to create a silence in our minds, for us to remember, or for us to be silent and cherish the Summer passing by.
Six artists, six individuals carrying their own summers.
Tran Hai Minh dances with the strokes and traces of inner strength and emotions. Sometimes slow and gentle like a light summer breeze, other times rushing and intense like a July downpour.
Do Minh Tam with the interweaving patches of memories and the present. Profound, philosophical, yet also spontaneous and vibrant.
Dam Dang Lai is spontaneous and surreal with colorful shapes, standing, lying, running, jumping, blending into space.
Floating like a cloud, twisting like the wind, lively like mischievous creatures, Tran An, calm yet full of dynamics with thought-provoking “material” blocks. Stretching, molding the surrounding space.
Can Van An, struggling with the collision, invasion between old and new, new and old. With seemingly radiant and shining patches of color, but harboring a sense of unease.
Dinh Duy Ton, emotions and inner thoughts with the changes of youth, cold but also incredibly warm with shapes made of iron and stainless steel that convey feelings.
Concurrent Exhibitions: “White Noise” & “Rhyming Gestures”
07 Aug 2023 – Jan 2024
10 am – 04 pm, Wed & Fri
EMASI Nam Long, 147 No 8, Nam Long Residential Area, D7, HCM City
10 am – 04 pm, Tues & Thurs
EMASI Vạn Phúc, 2 Street 5, Van Phuc Residential Area, Thu Duc District, HCM City
Nguyen Art Foundation (NAF) proudly presents ‘White Noise’ (curated by Van Do) and ‘Rhyming Gestures’ (curated by Thái Hà and Nhat Q. Vo) – two concurrent exhibitions with the participation of 19 artists from within and outside of our Collection.
The exhibitions will take place simultaneously across the campuses of EMASI Nam Long (District 7) and EMASI Van Phuc (Thu Duc City) from August 2023 to January 2024.
As a series of re-configurations of existing artworks from within and outside of NAF’s Collection, ‘White Noise’ proposes an interpretation of the Foundation’s 2023 theme Community and Compassion through a post-pandemic and post-human lens with participating artists Dao Tung, Tran Tuan, Nguyen Phuong Linh, Lai Dieu Ha, Nguyen Huy An, Dinh Q. Le, Nguyen Tran Nam, Jeamin Cha, Cam Xanh and Nguyen Trung.
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