"Nếp xưa” exhibition

From 06 Oct 2022
Hanoi Museum, Pham Hung Street, Nam Tu Liem District, Hanoi

In the first half of the 20th century, the French built administrative buildings following French architecture, planned new streets and expanded Hanoi. Western concepts and lifestyles were introduced to Hanoi, causing many changes. In Hanoi, there are traditional concepts, lifestyles and ways of thinking along side of Western lifestyles and concepts. The exhibition recalls the lives of urban affluent families with a variety of artifacts and documents collected at home and abroad for the public to understand the life of this period. At the same time to convey good traditional cultural values to the next generation, creating a connection between traditional culture and current culture. The exhibition introduces nearly 200 documents and artifacts with four main contents:
– Living room
– Ancestral altar
– Villa
– Traditional five-flap long dress

Hanoi today is very different from the Hanoi of the past; from its architecture, the streets and it moves on due to the law of life. To nurture love with Hanoi it is necessary to have a good memory and an understanding of traditional culture. Joining hands to preserve and follow suit will form new dynamic and cultural classes of Hanoians, contributing to building a more and more solidly developed capital.

Poetry, the Poetic Current – Open Practice in Contemporary Culture

01 Oct – 26 Nov 2022
Montauk by LP Club
174 Kim Mã, Hà Nội

the spectrum of arts – photography, painting, music, theater, film…? How are the modes of thinking, creating art across disciplines, through a variety of media, rooted and realised?

In Hanoi, the series of events “Poetry, the Poetic Current – Open Practice in Contemporary Culture” will take place from October 1 to November 26, 2022 at Montauk by LP Club, bringing a new excitement and variety to poetry, expressed not just through the beauty of words, rhymes, rhythm and sounds, but also through visuals, music and theater. This program is also a co-presentation/co-creation of intellectual voices and creative faces in literary theory, culture and contemporary art practice.

The program will include a talk, roundtable, music poetry night, photo poetry book launch and devised theater performance. The aim is to share and connect the cultural and multimedia art practices that are linked by poetry. The program is initiated by MYAN Poetry & Art, with the support of XplusX Studio, Montauk by LP Club, the Center for Movie Talents Development – TPD, Hanoi Grapevine, Tung Tang Studio and Noirfoto Darkroom-Studio-Gallery.

Events in the program include::

(1) Talk “Literary as Allusion Processing” with scholar Ngô Tự Lập
Time: Sat 01 Oct 2022, 03 pm – 05 pm
Moderator: Hương Mi Lê

(2) (2)Music-poetry free-form jam
Time: Thurs 20 Oct 2022. 08 pm – 10 pm
Performing poets & musician : MYAN, mi-mimi, Mạc Mai Sương, Thế Lãng, Lưu Thanh Duy

(3) (3)Roundtable: Poetry, the Poetic Current in Contemporary Culture
Time: Sat 12 Oct 2022, 09:30 am – 11:30 am
Speaker: poet, visual mi-mimi; poet, mixed media MYAN; artist, photographer Phạm Tuấn Ngọc; Literature Doctor Đinh Minh Hằng
Host: Poet, film critic Nguyễn Vũ Hiệp

(4) Photo Poetry Book Launch “6s.10M.in.MOveMENT”
Time: Sun 13 Nov 2022, 09:30 am – 11:30 am
Authur: MYAN

(5) Devised Theater “Leaving Love”
Time: Fri & Sat 25 & 26 Nov 2022, 08 pm – 10 pm
Concept: MYAN
Director & Scenographer: Hà Nguyên Long

The Collection: Trần Việt Phú

25 Sep – 25 Oct 2022, 10 am – 07 pm
Hanoi Studio Gallery
23-25 Mạc Đĩnh Chi, Ba Đình, Hà Nội
From the organizer:

For the past 25 years, Hanoi Studio Gallery has had the opportunity to collaborate with and introduce generations of talented artists, as well as earned the support of many collectors and lovers of Vietnamese art. Those bonds, which have been lasting over two decades, are the foundation of what we are today.

As a way to honor and keep nourishing those priceless relationships, Hanoi Studio Gallery would like to introduce The Collection, a series of events of collected pieces as well as new pieces by renowned Vietnamese artists. 

Art photos featuring contemporary life

Until Oct 16, Vietnam Culture & Art Exhibition, No 2 Hoa Lu Street, Hanoi

Nov 4-13, HCM City Fine Arts Museum, HCM City

Titled 'Vietnam Art Photo Exhibition', the exhibition features 250 works by 187 photographers.

Introducing Vietnamese people, culture, and landscapes, and thinking of artists on issues of contemporary life.

’The Four Subjects'

Until Nov 5, Tues – Sun, 11 am – 07 pm
Manzi Exhibition Space, 2 Ngo Hang Bun, Hanoi

Manzi is proud to present ‘The Four Subjects’ – a new series of installations by visual artist Nguyễn Huy An, one of the most important figures of Vietnamese contemporary art.

For this comeback after three years (since his third solo show in Saigon), Huy An assembles an exclusive space for singular objects/relationships which would provoke an odd encounter of disparate subjects (they are essentially alien to each other and, at first sight, seemingly unfamiliar to the keen followers of Huy An’s art practices as well).

The new series of installation artworks features neither a reiteration of Huy An’s recurring motifs centered around his personal memories and the rural Northern Vietnam nor a replay of predominant themes such as local religious & spiritual dimensions and the divine & the profane which had often haunted Huy An’s practices with subtle shading of nostalgia for the past years. ‘The Four subjects’, nevertheless, is a display of his new and ongoing meditations on the potential possibilities of the visible / the action of seeing:
– A study of a very narrow blind area in the horse’s vision
– A reproduction of the comprehensive illustrated encyclopedia of Vietnamese Geography in the reign of Emperor Minh Mạng
– A co-presence of a lasting powerful light source and an ephemeral standard light with the minimum luminous intensity/ traces of its absence
– An extended thread of blanked-out images rhythmically punctuated with 51 bright colorful trails – effects of light leak in the first frames at the beginning of a film roll

A nuanced diagram of various scenarios, a bulleted list of prospects, with conciseness, clarity yet ambiguity, on the basis of diverse references. ‘Four Subjects’, therefore, resists the tendency to be interpreted as a coherent narrative that compels clear-cut messages or epic conclusions, but rather, provides clues of a puzzle lock. Scattered in a clear irreducible space, four sets of installations formulate somewhat of a tricky multi-point latching system; once this mechanism is unlocked with the right key, all pieces eventually fall into place. However, before the time comes, this arrangement, in the form of fragmented archives, is a dissonant structure. Apart from sharing some common characteristics in the artist’s reticence and restraint, along with the faint imprints of his personal codes (the light and shadow, the anonymous emptiness/ darkness and the futile attempt to preserve the remnants of vanishing cultures or to record the faded shades of the past), four installations of ‘The Four Subjects’, albeit connected in one theme called ‘seeing’, manifest themselves in a visual disharmony. This discordant presence sets off a tension of the haphazard and the random, of the absurdity and the evanescence, of the definitive and the infinite.

In that way, entailed in Four Subjects the implication of ‘Seeing or Not Seeing’/‘In sight or Out of sight’ is not a mutually exclusive claim or a two-choice question. Instead, a ‘No’ can be a ‘Yes’ and vice versa, everything is a metaphor. By confronting us with confounding variables in his experiment, Huy An opens up a free space that enables us to go beyond our limited perception which has always been dominated by our sense of sight and visual information

Exhibition “The Sign of the Matter”

Oct 8 – 14, 09 am – 07 pm
Casa Italia, 18 Le Phụng Hieu Street, Hanoi

On the occasion of the 18th Contemporary Art Day, the Embassy of Italy in Vietnam pays tribute to Giacinto Cerone with an exhibition of 21 unpublished drawings by the great artist taken from the private collection of Virgilio Leggiero and curated by Massimo Scaringella in collaboration with the Giacinto Cerone Archive.

The event takes place at Casa Italia, a prestigious space dedicated to Italian culture in the capital of Vietnam. The exhibition, inaugurated on Saturday 8 October by the Italian Ambassador Antonio Alessandro, will remain open to the public until Friday 14 October.

18 years after his death, Giacinto Cerone retains a prominent place in Italian art of the ‘900, of which he has interpreted trends and visions, but also reveals a great link with the contemporary world, for example in the attention that the artist dedicates to nature and sustainability.

A vital and explosive artist, always poised between order and disorder, he has produced some of the most significant and innovative Italian ceramic sculptures. The same emotional tension and expressive strength emerge with equal force in the works on paper presented now for the first time in Vietnam.

Freeing itself from the weight of matter, Cerone’s art is transformed into nervous and vibrant signs: things cease to be what they are to become what we want them to be. Here then is the profile of a woman in filigree, the serenity of a landscape through the vortex of the sign, the face of his child in its simplicity, and much more that we see in the drawings presented in this exhibition.

Although Cerone’s travels to Vietnam are not known, we are aware of the artist’s deep admiration for this country and its history, which gave rise to a dedicated exhibition, entitled “On the paths of Ho Chi Minh”, hosted in Bologna in January 2006. With great pleasure, therefore, the artist’s works are brought to Vietnam for the first time, with an exhibition that is in effect a world premiere presenting unpublished drawings kindly made available by the art collector Virgilio Leggiero, who assisted Cerone as his personal doctor and close friend in the last years of the artist’s life.

Exhibition features President Ho Chi Minh’s love for Hanoi

Until Oct 13,

Exhibition House, Dinh Tien Hoang Street, Hanoi

An exhibition themed “President Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi capital" featuring more than 150 photos, documents and excerpts and dozens of artifacts and precious books related to the late President.

”Agnes’s New Planets”

27 Sep – 30 Oct
Mơ Art Space, B3 Floor, Apricot Hotel, 136 Hang Trong street, Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi

Mo Art Space cordially invites art lovers to ‘Agnes’s New Planets’ – a solo showcase by artist Duong Thuy Duong. Where do we come from? How do we define ourselves? Are we the product that we created? These are the questions which Duong Thuy Duong wants, together with the viewers,to try to reflect in this exhibition.

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.

Exhibition featuring Óc Eo culture

Until Oct 27,

Óc Eo - Ba Thê archaeological site, An Giang Province-

An exhibition featuring more than 200 photos and documents, offering an overview of history and development of Óc Eo culture as well as the preservation work of the Óc Eo - Ba Thê archaeological site.

The event features results from national and international research on the Óc Eo culture, and international cooperation on restoration with experts from South Korea, France and India.

It also honours the people’s contribution to the preservation and development of Óc Eo culture in the province by gifting ancient Óc Eo artefacts to local authorities.

International science film festival

Oct 8 - Dec 31

Hanoi, Thai Nguyen, Da Nang, 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.

Le Ha (Hanoigrapevines)