What's on May 15-21/2023
MUSIC & PERFORMANCES
Hanoi-Circo Pobre – a live performance by Passepartout Duo
May 19, 8 pm
️Manzi art space, 14 Phan Huy Ich Street
From the organizer:
Manzi & Passepartout Duo are pleased to present a special experimental music performance Circo Pobre
Circo Pobre is the latest project by Passepartout Duo – a contemporary music group from Italy established in 2015 by pianist Nicoletta Favari and percussionist Christopher Salvito. It was during the tour through South America that the Duo were introduced to the Chilean expression “circo pobre”, a phrase that refers to a situation in which you might need to fill the shoes of presenter, tamer, and trapeze artist all at once in order to finish the show. The phrase immediately spoke to the Duo’s independent spirit: from making their own instruments to presenting the music itself, taking a self-reliant path has guided many of their artistic decisions.
This live performance at Manzi is the 5th show of the Duo’s Vietnam Tour this year. The centerpiece is the “Chromaplane”, a new electronic instrument the Duo has created over the past year. With a pickup coil in each hand, the performers trace shapes above the instrument’s flat surface to unveil its hidden landscape of oscillators buzzing in the electromagnetic field. The four parts are defined by taking both a temporal and spatial approach to the sound and create the arch of a listening journey.
* Surcharge: 100,000 vnđ/each (incl. one drink)
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EXHIBITION
Hue City- Exhibition :”A Reunion with Vietnam”
May 19 – 26,
Lan Vien Co Tich 2, 94/96/98 Bach Dang Street
From the organizer:
Thomas Billhardt (*1937 in Chemnitz) is considered one of the most important documentary photographers in the GDR. He was a freelance photojournalist and became world famous through publications in international magazines and through exhibitions in numerous countries. His pictures documented the horrors of the Vietnam War for the first time, especially in the faces of the children he photographed.
Thomas Billhardt traveled to the bombed and fighting country six times between 1962 and 1975, and many more times later. His photographs have been published in several illustrated books. “Pilots in Pajamas” (1968), »Longing for Peace: Vietnam« (1973), ‘Hanoi. The Day Before Peace” (1973) and “Faces of Vietnam” (1978).
Hanoi-”Facing”
Until May 22, 12 pm – 10 pm, Wed & Weekend
Anatolia, 7 Alley 437/2, Ngoc Thuy Street, Long Bien District
From the organizer:
The sculptural installation “Facing” is the fruit of Julia Schleicher’s first experience in Vietnam during her residency at live.make.share. The compositions explore feelings of displacement, precarity and faith experienced in confrontation with foreign systems. Unfamiliar materials balance in playful unison, voicing silence and challenging trust.
Julia is an artist born in Cologne and residing in Halle, Germany. She is trained in both Theater Sculpture and Fine Arts Sculpture, and is concluding her first residency in Vietnam supported by the Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt.
HCMC-Songs of Singularity
Until June 3, Tues – Sat, and by appointment, 10 am – 05 pm
Galerie Quynh, 118 Nguyen Van Thu Street, D1
From the organizer:
An exhibition of new work by Brussels-based artist Trong Gia Nguyen. For his third solo exhibition at the gallery, Nguyen will exhibit four distinct, but connected bodies of work that foreground ideas of conservation, accessibility, reproduction, and attribution of artworks.
Hanoi-Adrian Sauer – Light and Dark Stars
Until May 20
University of Fine Arts, 42 Yet Kieu Street, Hoan Kiem District
From the organizer:
Adrian Sauer is an artist from Leipzig, who in the last 20 years has been involved with and paid attention to developments in the medium of photography. His work deals with the changes and consequences of digitalization in photography. Sauer critically engages with whether Photography can still be seen as a reliable and unbiased image of reality. In the exhibition „Light and Dark Stars“, which is part of Photo Hanoi 2023, Adrian Sauer’s work can be seen in the University of Fine Arts of Vietnam.
Hanoi-Exhibition & Talkshow “Hanoi – A City in Photography”
Exhibition: Until June 03, 08 am – 05 pm
Art and Culture Center 22 Hang Buom Street
From the organizer:
Exhibition “Hanoi – A City in Photography” is an event in the framework of International Photography Biennale Photo Hanoi’23
Curator: Visual Artist Nguyễn Thế Sơn
Artist: Alexandre Garel, Khổng Việt Bách, Diego Cortizas, Lolo Zazar, Peter Steinhauer, Sébastien Laval, Veronika Radulovic, Ben Reich, Bert Danckaert, Nguyễn Hữu Bảo, Nguyễn Thế Sơn, Lê Thịnh, Lê Xuân Phong, Nguyễn Duy Kiên, Maika Elan, Phạm Tuấn Ngọc
Hanoi-Exhibition “Peculiar Interfaces”
Until July 23 (off Monday), 09 am – 07 pm
The Outpost, Roman Plaza Tower B1 (Floor 2), To Huu Street
From the organzier:
In realising the growth of digital media in everyday context and the lack of its discussion in the local art conversations, The Outpost seeks to introduce artworks that engage with the amplifying presence of smart machines and digital technology through our exhibition and acquisition activities. “Peculiar Interfaces” serves as an abstract to The Outpost’s long-term dedication to explore and unpack how technology is impacting our relationships to one another, and to the world around us.
HCMC-Exhibition ‘No more, not yet’
Display: Feb – June, Wed & Fri, 10 am – 04 pm
EMASI Nam Long (D.7)
Tues & Thurs, 10 am – 04 pm
EMASI Vạn Phúc (D.Thủ Đức)
*and every last Saturday of the month
From the organizer:
Nguyen Art Foundation (NAF) proudly invites you to the opening of ‘No more, not yet’, an exhibition that looks back on Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai’s shapeshifting artistic practice in all its multiplicity. Winner of the Artist Excellence Award (inaugural edition, initiated by The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre and managed by in-tangible institute), her work is presented here alongside nearly 20 artists whom she calls her colleagues and friends. The exhibition will be on display from February to June 2023 across the campuses of EMASI Nam Long and EMASI Van Phuc.
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