Exhibition “Draw the Cats”

Opening: Tues 17 Jan 2023, 01:30 pm
Exhibition: 17 – 29 Jan 2023
The Special National Landmark Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam
58 Quoc Tu Giam Street, Dong Da, Ha Noi
Exhibition: 31 Jan – 28 Feb 2023
VICAS Art Studio
32 Hao Nam Street, Dong Da, Ha Noi

A special event to celebrate the Year of the Cat 2023 is right around the corner. Immerse in the joyful atmosphere of the New Year with the upcoming “Draw the Cats” Exhibition, which is organized by the Center for Scientific and Cultural Activites Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam, Vietnam National Institute of Culture and Arts Studies (VICAS) and TiredCity.

With a hope to evoke a picture brimmed with creativity, uniqueness and positivity, “Draw the Cats” Exhibition will introduce interesting artworks of cats to all viewers. Through the lens of young artists, the “main character” of the year will be depicted in diverse shapes and forms.

Spring Calligraphy Festival

Until Jan 24, Temple of Literature, Hanoi

This year will see the festival draw the participation of 50 calligraphers who are members of calligraphic clubs based in the capital.

The calligraphers will don Ao Dai (the national long dress) and will sit in bamboo tents following the traditions of the past.

Working on red or yellow Do (poonah) paper, they will write scripts which are intended to bring good health, luck, and prosperity for those in attendance.

The festival will also provide check-in spots for visitors to pose for photographs.

Furthermore, traditional crafts such as pottery, paper making, embroidery, and wood carving will be showcased to help introduce Vietnamese culture to local and foreign visitors.

Folk performances including Quan Ho (love duet singing) and water puppetry will also be available on this occasion.

The festival will last through to January 29, or the eighth day of the first lunar month.

Exhibition "Colours of the spring across the country"

Until February 15, Vietnam Fine Arts Museum, 66 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi

The exhibition displays 56 paintings in various materials of lacquer, oil, watercolour and gouache, produced between 1945 and 2007.

The paintings were created by many generations of Vietnamese painters, from celebrated artists namely Tran Van Can, Nguyen Van Ty and Tran Dinh Tho, to young talented names including Nguyen Trong Kiem, Duong Ngoc Canh, and Pham Cong Thanh.

Through their artworks, the painters featured the natural landscape and vitality of spring across the country, as well as the festive atmosphere of the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

Hanoi Spring Book Street 2023

Until Jan. 29,

19/12 Street, Hanoi

This is the eighth year that Spring Book Street is held throughout the Lunar New Year, to create more time for readers, residents and tourists, to visit and experience outdoor activities.

This year’s Spring Book Street will also include many exhibition activities, book introductions, and cultural performances, especially “check-in” corners decorated impressively with Hanoi’s spring atmosphere, promising to attract many visitors.

Many other activities will also be held, including introducing calligraphy art, Tet couplets, the organisation of picture colouring for children, a drawing contest entitled “Colourful Spring, Colourful Books”, the display of Hang Trong folk paintings, a Vietnamese chess competition, English speaking contest, and others.

HCMC Spring Book Street Festival 2023

Until Jan 26,
Le Loi street, District 1, HCMC

Featuring a range of books on topics relating to late President Ho Chi Minh, the 135th birthday of President Ton Duc Thang, and the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Paris Agreement.

E-books, audiobooks, and smart book libraries are available.

There will be 60 art performances and exchanges to entertain visitors.

Exhibition “This is not A Dream”

Exhibition: Until Mar 12, 10 am – 09 pm
Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (VCCA), B1 – R3, Vincom Mega Mall Royal City, 72A Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi

Featuring nearly 100 classic works in digital versions of two great Surrealists Rene Magritte and Frida Kahlo.

Rene Magritte (Belgium, 1898-1967) and Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907-1954) can be seen as the two extremes of Surrealism and the negative. If Frida – who always paints his own reality, Rene paints everyone’s reality – with a twist somewhere. Magritte’s works, from murals, magazine covers, to classics, are all aimed at an audience. To interact with the audience, Magritte is interested in creating puzzles, unknowns, and visual tricks. He wanted to paint the impossible as a form of realistic expression, thus free from coincidences and coincidences, which was the opposite of contemporary Surrealist painters.

Exhibition “Tết Art 2023″

10:00 – 18:30, 03 Jan – 31 March 2023
Hanoi Studio Gallery, No. 23-25 Mac Dinh Chi Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi

Tết Art – an annual event that we, along with painters and sculptors, always want to bring to the public every Spring.

The nostalgic north wind, the crowded street, and the year-end hustle. The season of busyness, the “walking”, the “watching”, the “sightseeing”, and moments of family reunion.

Exhibition: “Living"

Until Feb 21
Dong’s Art Space, 27/20, 27 Street, Hiep Binh Chanh ward, Thu Duc City, HCMC

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 “Arca Noa”

Until Feb 5, 11 am – 07 pm
Manzi Exhibition Space, No.2 Ngo Hang Bun Lane, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi

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.

Showcase of Makét 02

Until Jan 31, 07 am – 07 pm
Matca Space for Photography, 48 Ngoc Ha Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi

This showcase brings together images from four bodies of work: “Wildlife” by Binh Dang, “Suddenly, it hurts a little” by Nguyen Duy Tuan, “No land man” by Nguyen Dinh Phong, and “Ở Thụy Sĩ” by Thi My Lien Nguyen, all featured in the book Makét 02: From Here On Out. This is the second volume of Makét, a periodical publication by Matca that aims to document the transforming photography scene in Vietnam.

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

Until Feb 4, 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 “Story of Vu”

Until Feb 25, 2023

Ánh Dương Art Space, Long Bien Golf Club Building, 918 Regiment, Phuc Dong, Long Bien District, Hanoi
Hanoi Studio Gallery, 23-25 Mac Dinh Chi Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi

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.