Spring Festival 2024 | Musical Show Prisma

09 am – 08 pm, Sat 06 Jan 2024
Auditorium Theater (Building B), VinUni University, Da Ton, Gia Lam, Hanoi

After a successful first musical show that exceeded our expectations, the musical art project L’Oneiros will return in the second show with a completely new script revolving around the theme “Colors & Emotions” , inspired by the color distribution system of a prism.

In the musical Prisma set in a post-modern world, human emotions and connections are suddenly dominated by technology by a great invention. The main character, a person who cannot adapt to a new life, embarks on a journey to explore the complexity of emotions and diversity in life.

Through a colour sorting algorithm, just like a prism, characters show their true colours and main emotions. Angry red for Brick, happy yellow for Hans, sorrowful blue for Lily, and Elly’s white – which stands for which emotion exactly?

What awaits you at the Spring Festival 2024?

The Spring Festival x L’Oneiros 2024 event is a combination of musical shows and flea market activities with booths from sponsors and partners of VinUni as well as L’Oneiros.

Program content:
– Attend the musical Prisma of the L’Oneiros musical project season 2.
– Create a special opportunity for high school students across the North to visit and preview about the learning environment at VinUni.
– Participate in Spring Festival with booths from clubs, sponsors and partners of VinUni as well as L’Oneiros.

Exhibition “The Return”

Opening: 05 pm, Mon 08 Jan 2024
Exhibition: 08 – 28 Jan 2023
Artists talk: 10 am – 12 pm, Sun 14 Dec 2023
Manzi Exhibition Space, 2 Hàng Bún, Ba Đình, Hà Nội

“The Return” is the latest art project of Le Brothers, following their previous art project that begins by “The Bridge” (2010), a series of on-site performances from the Hien Luong Bridge, which divided Vietnam into the two regions of the North and the South, to the North-South Korean border near Panmunjom, and the Berlin Wall that divided Germany for nearly half a century. “Separation and Reunion” became one of the major topics of the twin artists for more than a decade when arts became a channel to reveal the individual history, memories, and the past with many layers and unknown meanderings.

During the two residency months of March-April 2023 in Germany, Le Brothers met and talked with many people in the Vietnamese expatriate community living in cities such as Halle, Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, and Leipzig. They come from various historical periods and backgrounds: international students and labor exchange workers in the 70s and 80s, immigrant workers after Doi Moi (Renovation period, 1990s), second-generation young people born and raised in Germany, and other Vietnamese students studying abroad in recent years.

This visual exhibition is a multimedia installation built by hundreds of photo documents selected from more than 1,500 images, and a video of the twin artists in conversation with Vietnamese people in Germany. The photos printed in different dimensions and hung on large-scale nets in the gallery create a multi-layered visual installation.

The pictures are both separated and overlapped on each other like layers of memory that time can hardly erase as a colorful collage panorama of the diaspora. The single conversation, image, and video record is a metaphor for leaving and returning in many twists and turns, feelings, desires, and ambiguities about the future where memories and reality blur into one.

VYO Exchange Program: The Great Wave

08 pm, Thurs 04 Jan 2024
Ho Guom Opera, 40-40A Hang Bai, Hanoi

To start 2024 in an inspiring fashion, we would like to invite you to enjoy the extraordinary and classic performances of classical music by the Super Kids Orchestra (SKO) under the baton of the world-renowned conductor – Yutaka Sado in the concert The Great Wave.

As being the first project in the VYO Exchange Program, with the desire of VYO to bring the world to Vietnam and Vietnam to the world, Super Kids Orchestra and VYO will bring the opportunity for everyone in Vietnam to experience the quintessential virtues of cultures around the world.

With the ambition to become the brightest orchestra in the world, the talented young musicians from Japan are eager to conquer the hearts of Vietnamese audience.

Performing Artists:
– Vietnam Youth Orchestra (VYO)
– Super Kids Orchestra (SKO)

Program:
– Trần Mạnh Hùng: Thiên Thanh (VYO)
– Gustav Holst: St Paul’s Suite; 1st Mov. “Jig” (SKO)
– Ennio Morricone：New Cinema Paradice (SKO)
– Edgar Meyer：1B – APPALACHIAN JOURNEY (SKO)
– Yasushi Akutagawa: TRIPTYQUE for String Orchestra (SKO)
– Leroy Anderson: Fiddle-Faddle (SKO)
– Vittorio Monti: Csárdás (SKO)
– Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48 (SKO)
– Bill Whelan: Riverdance (SKO)
– Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance Marches, Op. 39 – March No. 1 in D Major (VYO x SKO)

Talk l Vietnamese Postcards: An everyday life in Vietnam

02:30 pm, Sat 06 Jan 2024
Goethe-Institut Hanoi, 58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Ba Dinh, Hanoi

“Who is squatting? Everyone. The shopkeepers, the bus drivers and the bike couriers during their break, the bankers and businessmen during their lunch break, lottery ticket sellers, soldiers, and schoolgirls.” (Jan Wagner)

Are you curious about how a foreign writer, poet, or creative observes and writes about our homeland? In comparison with Vietnamese writers, is there anything different in the way they see and draw in words rivers, local markets, motorbikes, or name familiar dishes of each of our regions: pho, draft beer…?

In collaboration with Nha Nam Culture and Media Joint Stock Company, the Goethe-Institut Hanoi introduces to Vietnamese readers the publication Vietnamese Postcards, excerpted from the collection Der glückliche Augenblick. Beiläufige Prosa by Jan Wagner, a renowned contemporary author from Germany. All documents and stories were collected by him during his trips introducing his poetry to a local audience in Hanoi, Hue, and Ho Chi Minh City in 2017.

The talk session Vietnam Postcards: An everyday life in Vietnam, with the participation of the author Jan Wagner, illustrator Robert Deutsch, translator Thai Kim Lan, who has been working as a bridge connecting the two cultures of Vietnam and Germany, and writer Nguyen Truong Quy, “a writer of Hanoi”, will bring you interesting and multi-dimensional reflections.

Triển lãm 42 : 3 | GÓI – MỞ

Opening: 05 pm, Fri 12 Jan 2023
Exhibition: 09 am – 06 pm, 12 – 26 Jan 2024
Atena Gallery, 96 Trần Quốc Toản, Hà Nội

Exhibition 42 : 3 | GÓI – MỞ is the third annual exhibition of 42Painting Studio. This year the exhibition will be held near the Lunar New Year with the desire to preserve the image of people as the main theme. We, as organizers, aspire to bring some of the personal stories and thoughts regarding homesickness, family values, and personal worries to the exhibition 42:3 | GÓI – MỞ this time.

The exhibition includes 14 artists who are members of 42Painting Studio and guests:
Artist Duong Manh Quyet
Artist Le Anh Dung
Artist Cao Van Thuc
Artist Nguyen Hoang Dung
Artist Dao Thao Phuong
Artist Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan
Artist Tran Ngoc Minh
Artist Dao Anh Viet
Artist Tran Tram
Artist Pham Duy Ly
Artist Nguyen Duy Anh
Artist Nguyen Duy Dat
Artist Vang Hai Hung
Artist Nguyen Van Tuan

Spanish & Italian Pop Opera Night

Jan 6, 8 pm,
Opera House, 07 Cong Truong Lam Son, District 1, HCMC

The New Year is almost upon us and there is no better way to celebrate its arrival than with music. But what kind? While there are several songs associated with the holiday, unlike Christmas, there isn’t an entire genre of music dedicated to New Years.

This presents the Ho Chi Minh City Ballet and Orchestra (HBSO) with a great opportunity to simultaneously present timeless favorites to audiences while introducing others to a thrilling genre of music: Spanish and Italian Pop Opera

Exhibition “The Essence of a Pearl”

09 am – 08 pm, Dec 23, 2023 –  Jan 7, 2024
Floor 4, Madame Lan Restaurant, 4 Bach Dang Street, Hai Chau District, Da Nang

The first exhibition of its kind in Da Nang, introducing 35 artworks by 14 artists representing the professors and alumni of l’École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine (1924-1945) as we celebrate the school’s centennial anniversary. Inspired by a classic line in The Tale of Kieu, the curatorial concept revolves around two narratives in parallel: the image of the Vietnamese woman and the portrayal of the Indochine landscape, under the artistic lexicon blending East and West.

Mystical Topography

Until Jan 28, 2024, 09 am – 08 pm,
Annam Gallery, 371/4 Hai Ba Trung Street, D3, HCMC

Le Ba Dang (1921-2015) stands as one of the renowned modern Vietnamese artists who gained recognition in Europe in the latter half of the 20th century through a cross-disciplinary visual language system imbued with distinct individuality. Although he lived and practised far from his homeland, his works flourish from the Vietnamese roots, immersed with the Vietnamese identity, ,culture, and history. His practice is built upon meticulous and scientifically rigorous research, creating unique approaches and techniques in handmade paper production, including lithography, serigraphy combined with gilding technique termed “Lebadanggraphie,” and collage and superimposition – mixing sculpture and bas-relief, to create elevated spatial compositions coined as “Spacegraphie.” The latter technique inspired the curatorial concept of this exhibition.

”Fields of Optics | Chapter I: Biocenosis”

Until Feb 21, 2024
Le Lycée Gallery, Ana Mandara Villas Dalat Resort & Spa, No. 2 Le Lai, Ward 5, Da Lat City

After the excursion for 3 young artists to the natural sceneries of traditional French architecture in Da Lat “Art Trail #01 – Travelling & Open Studio”, Lân Tinh Foundation, along with Annam Gallery and Ana Mandara Villas Dalat Resort & Spa, proudly introduces a new group show titled “Fields of Optics | Chapter I: Biocenosis” showcasing 35 works from 3 artists Phan Thị Thanh Nhã, Phạm Xeen and Hà My. All 3 artists are under the curatorial patronization from Lân Tinh Foundation, and are being represented by Annam Gallery.

“Biocenosis” is the first chapter from the series Fields of Optics, a project initiated by Lân Tinh Foundation. Field of optics is the entire area that can be seen when the eyes are focused on a single fixed point. Each individual possesses a particular visual field and colour spectrum, and what each person sees is characteristic and unique, even when they are observing the same object. It is this attribute that diversified in each artist’s creations.

Exhibition “To each their own sky”

Until Jan 28, 2024, 09 am – 08 pm, Tues – Sun
Mo Art Space, Floor B3, 136 Hang Trong Street, Hoan Kiem District.

A solo exhibition by artist Nguyen Hoa.

Trained in Sculpture, Nguyen Hoa embraced painting as an additional medium for expressing his artistic spirit—a medium that serves as both a reflection upon and resistance to time. Each of his compositions, meticulously crafted and deliberately scarce, forms part of a series of reflections, sometimes comprising no more than three pieces.Throughout the series, ancient architectural details act as a frame—a metaphor laden with poignancy and conflict, unraveling scenes, rituals, routines, and rules not only of history and heritage but also of the very fabric of existence that any artist residing and working in the ancient capital of Hue inevitably carries along.”

”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.

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.