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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 – 09Nov 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”
At The Intersection: A Book Showcase From The Netherlands
07 am – 09 am, 28 Oct – 18 Nov 2023
Là Giấy Coffee, 82 Bình Hòa 15, Khuê Trung, Cẩm Lệ, Đà Nẵng
“At The Intersection: A Book Showcase From The Netherlands” is a travelling exhibition initiated by Matca with the purpose of presenting a selection of publications from the Netherlands using photography as their main medium. The titles on display were curated in collaboration with The Eriskay Connection, a studio for book design and publishing house focused on contemporary storytelling at the intersection of photography, research, and writing in order to provide new and necessary insights into the world around us.
The 18 showcased publications had travelled a great distance to reach Vietnam, conveying a diverse range of topics such as: The landscape of maritime transports in the Netherlands as sketched from personal interests in “I’m Looking for a Ship”, looking for clues of women’s contributions in modern nuclear and computer science through “Klara And The Bomb”, reflection on the contradictory symbiotic relationship between humans and domestic animals in “Horse and Novogen”, personal experiences under a population policy in “The Land Of Promises” or witty satire on a failed experiment that troubled the scientific community from “The Speed Of Light”. The authors demonstrated multi-dimensional, multi-linear perspectives when standing at the intersection of past, future, and present. The usage of alternative visual materials such as archival images, topographic maps, scientific documents, or images from family albums demonstrated efforts in diversifying storytelling strategies within the domains of photography and printed matter. The Eriskay Connection values close collaborations with authors while striving to work with local producers and sustainable materials, as well as establishing connections with bookstores and cultural hubs all over the world.
The travelling showcase will make its first stop at Là Giấy Coffee, Da Nang, from 28 Oct – 18 Nov 2023 before continuing its journey to Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. The showcase is organised with support from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Vietnam.
Exhibition “White Blank”
Until Dec 9, 10 am – 07 pm, Tues – Sat,
Galerie Quynh, 118 Nguyen Van Thu Street, D1, HCMC
Galerie Quynh is pleased to present ‘White Blank’ – a highly anticipated exhibition of new works by Paris-based artist Tran Nu Yên Khê.
Known internationally in film for acting, art direction and costume design, Yên Khê 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’, Yên Khê 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,” Yên Khê’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.
A Night of Beethoven, Chopin & Grieg
Nov 11, 8 pm,
Saigon Opera House, 07 Cong Truong Lam Son, D1, HCMC
Commander: Wojciech Czepiel
Piano: Joanna Marcinkowska
Cooperation program with Mickiewicz Academy of Music & Warsaw Music Foundation – Poland.
Beethoven, Chopin and Grieg: three of history’s most beloved 19th Century European composers will be celebrated at the Saigon Opera House on November 11 at 8pm. To make the magical evening possible the Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) is collaborating with Poland’s Mickiewicz Institut and the Warsaw Music Foundation.
Makers Market – The Dots
Mini market: 03 pm – 08 pm, 17 – 18 Nov 2023
Main event: 10 am – 09 pm, 25 – 26 Nov 2023
Warehouse 3B, Gia Lam Train Factory (Enter through the gate at alley 481 Ngoc Lam Street, Long Bien Dist., Hanoi)
Makers Market – The Dots is a big craft and art fair organized within the framework of the Hanoi Festival of Creativity and Design 2023 with the core theme of “Flow”, to honor new shifting flows from the heritage platform and creative community. Makers Market – The Dots is held at Gia Lam Train Factory – a meaningful symbol of trade, is where creative people from all over gather in the last days of November._
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.
“The Hidden Charms”
Until Nov 17,
New World Saigon, 76 Le Lai Street, D1, HC City
Gallery Medium and New World Saigon Hotel will introduce the exhibition “The Hidden Charms” at The Circle. The collection offers a glimpse into the corners of Saigon through exquisite aesthetic of Nguyễn Ngọc Liêm.
Nguyễn Ngọc Liêm (b.1989), an independent artist from Biên Hoà, is known for his ability to capture the beauty of minute details and the serenity in ordinary moments. In this edition of “The Hidden Charms” exhibition, Liêm showcases Saigon’s streets, including scenes, corners, trees, etc, in a minimalist pastel palette.
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 “Have Been – Eternally”
Until Nov 24, 10 am – 06:30 pm,
Hanoi Studio Gallery, No. 23-25 Mac Dinh Chi Street, Ba Dinh District, HCM City
Awareness of existence and presence within the whirlwind of time is always a perennial anxiety for each individual. What are we doing here? Drifting, not connecting with the future, the past, or the present. Lâm Na is no exception.
There are times when she seems to be in a trance. Just existing, breathing, looking to see everything drifting away, fading, and disappearing.
A dreamer. Then, she encounters Earth. A meeting of a thousand years. Lâm Na, reborn through connecting with the Earth.
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 “AWAKE”
Until Nov 20, 09 am – 09 pm
Floor 1, Sống Platform, A2 Commercial Area, Hung Vuong Street, Phu Nhuan Ward, HCMC
The exhibition “AWAKE” by artist/ comic illustrator Jeet Zdung features nearly 50 art pieces on the theme of wildlife, aiming to offer fresh insights into the world of wild animals and their unique stories and lives.
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.
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