Exhibition “Liminality”
 

01 Dec 2022 – 15 Jan 2023
The Muse Artspace
47 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

At an early age, children use painting to “frame their thoughts”. In a sense, the artist is the one who’s able to retain that primitive ability to adulthood. Moreover, art was the first means of expressing value prior to the written word. Therefore, art has always played an intimate part in people’s lives.

Despite giving birth to many types of schools, modern art always originates from personal and social life while also being connected with science. Therefore, the more experience one has in life, the more profound and intriguing works one can compose. Each work of art holds a life of its own, and within it, contains the artist’s perspective and creative direction. As artists create new forms of art, appreciating them is a way of enriching our world.

“Liminality” is an annual series of exhibitions organized by The Muse Art Space, taking place during the period of transition. The artworks selected include a wide range of schools and styles from various artists that have accompanied us for a long while. During these special moments, rather than exhibiting by topic or individual, we wish to bring a diverse and vibrant atmosphere from multiple artists. This is also an opportunity for us to share more of the artworks we have, and the stories behind their creations, as well as to reach beyond many boundaries of emotions, and provide a more intimate, instinctive, and primitive view of art.

Kia non non, nuoc nuoc, may may: Solo exhibition by Ha Manh Thang

Dec 22, 2022 – Feb 4, 2023, 10 am – 07 pm Tues-Sat
Holiday hours: closing at 03 pm on 24 Dec; closed 25 & 26 Dec and 31 Dec 2022 – 2 Jan 2023
29 – 31 Ton That Thiep Street, D.1, HCMC

A solo exhibition by Ha Manh Thang featuring 16 experimental works that illustrate the artist’s continued fascination with materiality, time, and the excavation of history and cultural heritage.

The exhibition title borrows from ‘Hương Sơn Phong Canh Ca’ (Huong Son Landscape Song) by the renowned Nguyen Dynasty intellectual Chu Mạnh Trinh. The poem encapsulates well the complexity of emotions when one is confronted by the magnificence of nature. The same sentiment can also be observed in Thắng’s artistic practice. Over the years he has focused on exploring the polysemic nature of landscape, and the evolution of viewing landscape in art from ancient times up to the present.

Exhibition “Arca Noa”
 

Tues – Sun, 24 Dec 2022 – 05 Feb 2023, 11 am – 07 pm
Manzi Exhibition Space
No.2 Ngõ Hàng Bún, Ba Đình, Hanoi

Manzi is proud to present ‘Arca Noa’ – a series of new works by Phi Phi Oanh – one of the leading lacquer artists of Vietnamese contemporary art.

Coming back to manzi after six years (since her solo exhibition ‘Scry’ in December 2016), Phi Phi Oanh displays new results of her ongoing exploration in expanding the abilities and unfolding possibilities of the Vietnamese lacquer medium. ‘Arca Noa’, features a series of 10 small and medium sized paintings from different series and two Lacquerscopes.

The works here also explore a type of realism in lacquer based on repeated direct observation over many days and layers then sanding away like erosion – a journey simply reflects the passage of time, as well as fossilizes and preserves all the mental & visceral states of the artist along with the outer conditions of space. This whole process of continuous accumulation and subtraction, for Phi Phi Oanh, “leads to an image of the observed that seems to exist at different moments and times. While not tonally realistic like a photograph, this lacquer realism is more involved with the slippery ever changing experience of sight and of memory which I consider to be son ta’s major potential contribution to the field of painting”

The paintings in ‘Arca Noa’ explore new representational models of son ta lacquer painting in both the physical (though experimentations on different materials and substrates) and in the symbolic (through what can be interpreted and a broadening of its theory). For Phi Phi Oanh, sơn ta lacquer is not an inert image – making medium rather it assembles a wide range of relationships in locality, culture, environment and nature.

Every Bilious Honeymoon

 
Dec 30, 2022 – Jan 15, 2023
Tues – Fri: 02 pm – 06 pm (closed on Mondays and on the date of Jan 1st, 2023)
Sat – Sun: 10 am – 06 pm
Á Space, Alley 59 Ngo Gia Tu Street, Long Bien District, Hanoi

‘Every Bilious Honeymoon’ closely ties in with what was said above. Like the first-stroke sense of cubism, it resembles a post-confession state in which one begins to toil over collecting and gathering bits and pieces, in less of an unintentional manner and more of a hopeful state hinging upon the possibilities of something that is to be soon born out through means of restoration. Such acts of restoration would work at times and would not at others, or only serve as an admission of a broken fact right off the nose. Most realistically, one should prepare at least for a known-to-be-magic 502 glue bottle, and hope that it would be of use? When unscrewing the lid’s can, what we see most often is “Good luck next time”, and that next time actually exists.

“Looking Beyond” showcases amazing Earth artworks

Until Jan 7, 2023, 9am-9pm
Hoa Sen Universtiy’s main campus and Thanh Thai Campus, HCM City-

“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.

Exhibition: “Living”
 

30 Dec 2022 – 21 Feb 2023
Dong’s Art Space
27/20, 27 street, Hiep Binh Chanh ward, Thu Duc city

Lockdown covid 19 is a very special period when people have to struggle every day between life,death and existence… Someone once said you have to turn the non-conforming condition into a match. Optimal lives are designed, not discovered. Artist transforms the sorrows and hardships of that situation into architectural works, sculptures and digital prints. Source inspiration: Potential interaction between man and machine; Breaking the line between the visible and the imaginary; Emphasizing the Human-Nature-Technology. These new works are presented at Phan Phuong Dong’s art space.

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

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

Within the series “Road to Sunshine”- a project towards “Sunshine Art Museum”, we are delighted to present the exhibition “Story of Vu” – An artistic portrait of Tran Trong Vu.

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, HCMC

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.