Participatory Performance with Ly Hoang Ly
Nov 28, 07 am – 10 am,
Sàn Art, Units B6.16 and B6.17, 6th Floor, Block B Office, Millennium Masteri, Ward 6, District 4, HCM City
San Art cordially invites our colleagues and audiences to participate in a performance with artist Ly Hoang Ly on Tuesday, November 28. As an open-ended conclusion to her open studio, the artist and participants will walk together, open up and carry on stories about the aesthetic and social values of performance art, about the possibilities of displaying and experiencing public works of art. Participants are encouraged to wear comfortable clothing, walking shoes, and come along with a spirit of playfulness and openness.
Screening Programme | “Everyone I know is sick”
Dec 1, 06:30 pm – 08 pm,
35 Lily Road, APSC Compound, 36 Thao Dien St., District 2, Thu Duc City,
Sàn Art is proud to partner with Visual AIDS and the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands for Day With(out) Art 2023 by presenting Everyone I Know Is Sick, a program of five videos generating connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability.
The program features newly commissioned work by Dorothy Cheung (Hong Kong), Hiura Fernandes & Lili Nascimento (Brazil), Beau Gomez (Canada/Philippines), Dolissa Medina & Ananias P. Soria (USA), and Kurt Weston (USA).
Lost & Found
Nov 26-Dec 2, 10:30 am – 07:30 pm,
Chau & Co Gallery, No. 11 alley 123 Nguyen Dinh Thi Street, Hanoi
Perhaps no one has ever lived without thinking about the occult world. The coexistence between the physical world and the spiritual world has been subject to much research and debates over the years, but each one of us surely has our own answer.
Inner strength has carried Hà Châu Bảo Nhi through traumatic early life experiences (with life & death) as well as recent devastating personal loss and yet, the aftermath of inflicted emotional pain still remains. Rather than sinking deeper into the darkness, she turned to the healing power of art to save herself. Through this artwork series, she aims to document her personal observations about the spiritual world, death and rebirth, loss and gain, hope and pain, all intertwined in the dual nature of life as we know it.
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.
Talk | “International Film Festival: Behind the scenes stories and processes”
02 pm – 04:30 pm, Thurs 30 Nov2023
Casa Italia, 18 Lê Phụng Hiểu, Tràng Tiền, Hoàn Kiếm, Hà Nội
Within the framework of the Italian Film Festival 2023 from November 27 to December 2, 2023 in Hanoi, the Embassy of Italy and the Asian Film Festival in Rome invite cinema enthusiasts to a talk titled “International Film Festival: Behind the scenes stories and processes” with guest speakers from Italy and Vietnam. The experienced director of the Asian Film Festival in Rome who serves as the curator of the Italian Film Festival 2023, Antonio Termenini will join the discussion with film director Nguyễn Hoàng Điệp, film critic Lê Hồng Lâm, and Phạm Minh Toàn the executive director of the first Ho Chi Minh City International Film Festival, with journalist Trương Uyên Ly as the moderator. The talk will centre on their experiences and lessons learnt at international film festivals as organisers, observers and people who understand the joys, sorrows and tension behind the curtains at these events.
INNER EYE | Fashion Design Showcase
Opening & Performing: 07 pm – 11 pm, Sat 25 Nov 2023
Showcase: 26 Nov – 02 Dec 2023
6th Floor – Toong, 198 Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai, Ward 6, D.3, HCMC
Creative Collaboration: MONIQ Studio (Doan Anh Thu) X Phuc Van Dang (Phucisme)
INNER EYE Fashion Design Showcase – an integrated form of arts over the human body and mind.
INNER EYE Collection is inspired by the transition from intercultural to cross-cultural to explore the boundaries where humans wander their internal world and reflect to themselves. The collection includes 20+ fashion items, 4+ crafted symbol accessories together with 4 exclusively sculptures. It presents how pliable an dialogue from past to present throughout arts, crafts and fashion.
Through the convergence of Fashion, Visual Arts and Performance, INNER EYE is regarded as an visionary interpretation, the power of all-seeing eyes beyond the sight, which connects the sight across the human mind and awakens own human inner peace and balance.
The Opening Event of INNER EYE | “Thấy/Thấu” have the participation of:
– Performance Art: Lam Duy Phuong (Kim)
– AI Animation: Le Thanh Tung (Crazy Monkey)
– Sound Performance: Dekay & Fanglanx
“Sand Sand Sand”
07 pm – 08:30 pm, 02 & 03 Dec 2023
Private Function Room, The Outpost
Floor 2 Tower B1, Roman Plaza Tố Hữu, Nam Từ Liêm, Hà Nội
“Sand Sand Sand” is a minimal music theatre composed and performed by the duo Siedl/Cao. In “Sand Sand Sand”, one comes into contact with “time“ in several ways and from different perspectives. Its slowness and its minimalism is a reaction to social acceleration and the overwhelming amount of information available nowadays.
Here, ordinary things suddenly receive new layers of meaning when they are placed in a correlation/contrast/collision of different contexts. Such thing happens when an early 20th century French waltz is paired with a coded and robotized gesture. Or the dialogue between childhood photos and a nightingale, or when the words written on the page are released into the air amid the melodious music of “The Blue Danube” and amidst the sounds of New Year firecrackers. An interesting collision of notions of time can also arise when postcards accidentally found in a Vienna flea market and Vietnamese ancient poems share space with a flock of swallows flying away from the North…
VYO Grand Concert 2023
08 pm, Sun 03 Dec 2023
Hanoi Opera House, Số 1 Tràng Tiền, Hoàn Kiếm, Hà Nội
Celebrating over a year of connecting with the audience and embarking on a journey to share the splendid values of art with thousands of spectators from the community, our Vietnam Youth Orchestra is ready to grace the stage of the Hanoi Opera House with the VYO Grand Concert 2023!
In this comeback performance, VYO will bring forth a rich feast of classical music, infused with diverse cultural colours from around the world. Join VYO in exploring classical music in the lands that gave birth to classical masterpieces, such as England, embarking on an adventure through Japan, and discovering the enchanting connection between classical music and the distinctive sounds echoing across the regions of Vietnam!
The concert includes engaging exploration activities such as:
– An intriguing exhibition showcasing various orchestral instruments
– Mini-games exploring the model of the Symphony Orchestra
– Podcasts humorously introducing timeless masterpieces and renowned composers
PROGRAM
– Edward Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1
– Peter Warlock: Capriol Suite (selected movements)
– R. Vaughan Williams: English Folk Song Suite
– Yuzo Toyama: Rhapsody for Orchestra
– Trần Mạnh Hùng: Thiên Thanh
– R. Rodgers & O. Hammerstein II: The Sound of Music Suite
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).
Italian Film Festival
07:30 pm, 27 Nov – 02 Dec 2023
Room 4 (2nd Floor), National Cinema Centre
87 Lang Ha, Ba Dinh, Hanoi.
The Embassy of Italy in Hanoi proudly introduces the “Italian Film Festival 2023” at the National Cinema Centre (87 Lang Ha, Ba Dinh, Hanoi) from November 27 to December 02, 2023.
The event is organised in coordination with the Asian Film Festival in Rome, aiming to offer Vietnamese audiences a glimpse into Italy’s contemporary cinema. Through six outstanding films spanning from drama to comedy, of which many have won accolades at prestigious festivals, Italian Film Festival 2023 will tell the tales of urban life, depicting the Italian modern society in the face of new challenges while also trying to connect with and maintain its age-old traditional heritage.
Tickets will be distributed free of charge for audiences who register in advance through the fanpage of the Italian Film Festival. The organising team will soon open the registration form for the audiences to fill in and receive the guidelines to get their tickets at Casa Italia, 18 Le Phung Hieu from November 21 until tickets are all distributed.
The list of films available for screening is as follow:
– THE HUMMINGBIRD (IL COLIBRI’ / CHIM RUỒI) | Directed by Francesca Archibugi | 2022 | 123 minutes – November 27
– DIABOLIK (DIABOLIK) | Directed by Antonio Manetti and Marco Manetti | 2021 | 133 minutes – November 28
– SEPTEMBER (SETTEMBRE / THÁNG CHÍN) | Directed by Giulia Louise Steigerwalt | 2022 | 110 minutes – November 29
– DIABOLIK GINKO ATTACKS (DIABOLIK GINKO ALL’ATTACCO / DIABOLIK GINKO TẤN CÔNG!) | Directed by Antonio Manetti and Marco Manetti | 2022 | 120 minutes – November 30
– LEONORA (LEONORA ADDIO) | Directed by Paolo Taviani | 2022 | 90 minutes – December 01
– THE RETURN OF CASANOVA (IL RITORNO DI CASANOVA / SỰ TRỞ LẠI CỦA CASANOVA) | Directed by Gabriele Salvatores | 2023 | 90 minutes – December 02
Exhibition “The Language of Water”
Nov 17-29; 8 am – 10 pm,
50 Nguyen Van Mai Street, D3, HCM City
In a diverse and innovative art environment, the intersection of cultures and artistic styles always brings new and creative experiences. The exhibition “The Language of Water” by artist Nicolás López is a testament to this and a meaningful new chapter in his artistic journey around the world.
“The Language of Water” is the statement of Nicolás López’s characteristic painting technique and the title he chose for his series of personal exhibitions and workshops in many countries worldwide. Watercolor works tell the inner spiritual stories of indigenous people and cultures, exploring the diversity of the world through artistic journeys from Peru to Europe, Asia, and now to Vietnam.
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
17 – 19 Nov 2023
Metiz Cinema
Đ.2 Tháng 9, Hoà Cường Bắc, Hải Châu, Đà Nẵng
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 “Accompany”
Until Dec 3
The Muse Artspace, 47 Trang Tien Street, Hanoi
During the development process for the Hai Phong artists exhibition, we tried to perceive the geographic region through their artworks as the impact of living environment and regional culture is somewhat engraved into the art of each individual. We’d acknowledged this through their realistic sceneries in previous exhibitions; peaceful, romanticized, idealized, beautiful yet gloomy. However, as some artists put efforts to dive deeper into personal expression, their art becomes rich, and reflective, and reinvigorates the spirit of the scenery.
Exhibition “A State Called Meow”
Until Dec 3, 09 am – 08 pm,
Annam Gallery, 371/4 Hai Ba Trung Street, D3, HCM City
Annam Gallery and Lân Tinh Foundation are thrilled to announce the first solo exhibition of Chu Tiến Thăng titled “A state called meow”.
Since ancient times, cats have always been a symbol in many different cultures around the world. They are mascots representing knowledge, wealth and luck. In the Asian 12 zodiac animals in countries such as China, Korea or Japan, the year “卯” represents the rabbit. The Vietnamese spoonerizes the Chinese word and have been calling it the year of the Cat.
Cats in everyday life scenes bring people endless inspiration and joy. Chu Tiến Thăng’s interest in cats also comes from the simplest beauties, such as when they are playing, dozing off, licking,… making us admire their flexible bodies. The actions of each body part are extremely independent, which stimulates the artist’s curiosity and will be the material for him to continue drawing in the future.Follow updates on event’s page.
Exhibition “Whoop Whoop”
Until Nov 30
Vin Gallery, 35/8 Nguyen Van Dau Street, Binh Thanh District, HCM City
Vin Gallery is humbled to present “Whoop Whoop” a solo show by Katharina Arndt. Living and working between Berlin and Barcelona, Katharina Arndt displays her unique and honest details in her paintings.
“Whoop Whoop” depicts how she captures the everyday life of a consumerist society through her colorful paintings.
The paintings are also symbols, they appear as tools to articulate the immaterial objects that haunt human life, especially in the online world.
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.
Poems of the Sky
10 am – 06 pm, 20 Sep – 02 Dec 2023
Sàn Art, Units B6.16 and B6.17, 6th Floor, Block B Office, Millennium Masteri, Ward 6, District 4, HCMC
Ly Hoàng Ly and Sàn Art heartily invite you to an open studio whose title draws inspiration from a poem of Gibran in “Sand and Foam” to explore the artist’s partially unfinished, partially fulfilled space of imagination.
Originating from the performance “Hugging trees – Hugging your loved ones – Hugging yourself” at the Plum Village, France in 2015, Ly Hoàng Ly carries on exploring the relations among different bodies as artistic material and the dynamic between internal drives and external forces.
As an artist adept in various materials, transformations of the external world, and micro changes in the inner soul, in this open studio, Ly presents her artwork-in-progress as a lingering meditation practice since 2018.
Coming here, the audience is asked to observe, and then interrogate the static and dynamic in performance art, the individuality and collectivity in public art, and the formation, participation, and contribution of factors that seem random and trivial, yet carefully calculated: time, location, body, audience – to position the artist’s presence in her work.
Coming here, the audience is invited for a conceptual dialogue to explore the possibilities of different utilisations of the interior and exterior space of the artworks; the materials and their effects on our sensation.
Thus, the artist and the audience together reflect and challenge, abolish and consolidate, forgetting and searching … to figure out these connections between humans with natural beings, between our inner self with the beauty, ugliness, and in betweenness of the surrounding world.
Exhibition “Stratum Zero”
Until Dec. 3; 09 am – 07 pm, Tues – Sun,
The Outpost Art Organisation, Roman Plaza Tower B1 (Floor 2), To Huu Street, Hanoi
Stratum Zero displays a wide range of works by Vietnamese artists in The Outpost Collection. The exhibition attends to the analysis of the aesthetic context and construction of the contemporary Vietnamese spirit and artistic landscape evoked from the works.
That analysis and construction is expressed through the practice of processing and restructuring the material language, through marking the enduring flow of Asian folklore and philosophy, as well as hidden, peripheral historical perspectives.
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.