Past
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on PATH to by Yohei Yama
at Powerlong Museum 9 Nov - 8 Dec 2024 Yohei Yama's creative process resonates deeply with the essence of nature. His work emerges as a profound dialogue between the passage of time and the universe itself.This exhibition invites us to explore not only the artist's 17 year creative journey but also the timeless, ever-renewing processes of the cosmos and... Read more -
SPROUT by Yohei Yama
Vin Gallery, Shanghai 2 Nov 2024 - 20 Jan 2025 In traditional painting, time is often metaphorically expressed through static images and spatial relationships. However, Yohei Yama's 'Tree' series transcends this static concept of time, presenting it as a dynamic interplay between form and existence. The trees depicted on the canvas are not mere objects frozen in space; they exist... Read more -
XEM Meta-10th Anniversary Saigon Tour
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 23 Sep - 26 Oct 2024 As a collective, XEM has continually pushed the boundaries of photography, emphasizing that their work is not confined to traditional photobook formats but extends into broader visual experimentation. This show will exhibit their long journey and commitment to challenging notions of photography and unravel its creative potential. Over the years,... Read more -
Memory and Body Mythology by Mahdi Abdullah
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 22 Jul - 24 Aug 2024 Vin Gallery proudly presents Mahdi Abdullah's solo show, 'Memory and Body Mythology'. As we are committed to representing contemporary artists from Southeast Asia whose artworks contain powerful messages, we are glad to bring Mahdi Abdullah's works to the Vietnamese audience. His works have consistently offered a dialectic with the viewers.... Read more -
t h ư n h à n | leisure by Le Phi Long
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 18 Mar - 6 Apr 2024 Vin Gallery is pleased to present 't h ư n h à n | leisure', a solo exhibition by Le Phi Long, which spans from 2020 to the present. This exhibition features personal works crafted in acrylic on canvas, pine wood, and paper, characterized by the use of the lapis... Read more -
Whoop Whoop by Katharina Arndt
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 28 Oct - 30 Nov 2023 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. Through her first show in Vietnam, Vin Gallery wants to invite you to be part of the celebration... Read more -
CUBIST KALEIDOSCOPE: Explorations of the Mind’s Canvas by Dylan Gill
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 4 Sep - 14 Oct 2023 Vin Gallery proudly presents “CUBIST KALEIDOSCOPE: Explorations of the Mind’s Canvas” by Dylan Gill. In a practice that emerged from the encounter with diverse individuals, Gill opens himself up to the emotional signals that vibrate just below the noise of modern life and attempts to capture their effects on canvas,... Read more -
DISSONANCE III: DEEP FOREST PROLOGUE by HARUMI Yonekawa
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 22 Jul - 31 Aug 2023 In this exhibition, we will present her new body of artwork that will be showcased for the first time at Vin Gallery. Based on the existence of the sense of incongruity in various situations, this is an installation series in which four chapters of DISSONANCE I, II, III, and IV... Read more -
resonate state by Yohei Yama
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 11 Mar - 28 Apr 2023 Yohei Yama describes his instinct to actuate the energies of nature, his intentions are to create these ripples that affect the viewer as you stand tracing the patterns of his work. As a viewer, you are integral; humanity and nature are the major proponents of this world. Hence the existence... Read more -
Lines Upon Rhythm by Dodit Artawan
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 3 Dec 2022 - 14 Jan 2023 Born and based in Bali, contemporary Indonesian artist Dodit Artawan is eager to challenge and seek new expressions for Balinese contemporary art. Still life has become his main drive to be present in his works. He took his focus in a more unique way by highlighting the shapes and designs... Read more -
In the midst of mirages by Duy Phương
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 3 - 31 Aug 2022 Duy Phương is an artist who is able to capture and archive the dynamics and changes in Vietnam. The spectrum of Duy Phương’s vision is not only limited to the landscape but also its sensibility can grasp socio-cultural issues. Through Duy Phương’s works, he adds another point of view on... Read more -
Impermanence by Karine Guillermin
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 11 Jun - 24 Jul 2022 Karine Guillermin's works exhibit her reflection on reality, senses and visuals. It transcends complex thoughts and structures into delicate yet detailed forms. Expand a space of pause where subconscious and conscient intersect. Seeding fertile thoughts to emulsify formal structures. Endured the energy, an invisible repetition of ephemeral acceptation. One is... Read more -
Full of Surprises by Andrea Orejarena & Caleb Stein
7 May - 11 Jun 2021 Focusing on a group of teenagers at Làng Hữu Nghị, the photographs project an intimate choreography between the subjects and the artist duo with the occasional drawing intervention by the subjects. Using American commercial advertising lexicon and reflecting on iconic documentary photographs, neon sculptures and wallpaper made in collaboration with... Read more -
La mémoire dans la peau by Frédéric Dialynas Sanchez
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 12 Mar - 29 Apr 2021 Vin Gallery proudly present ‘La mémoire dans la peau' by artist Frédéric Dialynas Sanchez. Showing in the latest project is both a personal journey exploring his Vietnamese heritage and reappropriation of post-war memories and its contemporary afterlife, which presented in geometric abstract painting. He first visited the Ho Chi Minh... Read more -
The Silence is Deafening by Lê Thuý
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 13 Nov 2020 - 8 Jan 2021 In this solo exhibition, “The silence is deafening”, Le Thuy (b. 1988) invites us into an aspect of her artistic world that has not yet been seen in her previous works. Presented amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and worldwide social and political chaos, this new body of work makes a... Read more -
Code*art==marvelous by KWIT
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 25 Sep - 7 Nov 2020 Over the centuries, art and technology were born out of the human desire to express oneself and understand the world. Though arts don't seek to be in control and technology is one of human manifestation against nature, both worlds are a wonderful creation of the human imaginative minds. In this... Read more -
D'eau et de verdure | Nước Xanh Non Biếc by Lê Giang
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 19 Jun - 18 Sep 2020 D'eau et de verdure During French colonial time, Indochina was represented in ambivalent ways: sometimes as damp, mysterious jungles populated with ferocious creatures and indigenous savages, and other times, as a region of charming landscapes that evoke tenderness and submission. These contradictory features depicted an intriguing, exotic tropical land that... Read more -
Doppelgänger by Dario Maglionico
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 6 Mar - 30 Apr 2020 Doppelgänger when translated to English literally meant double-goer. This occurs when, for example, an individual travels back in time and encounters a younger version of self. This mental process of combining past experiences in relation to the present is transposed onto Dario’s canvases. By using wide vanishing points and various... Read more -
The already seen never seen by Trần Trọng Vũ
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 4 Oct 2019 - 8 Feb 2020 It could be said that Vũ’s career has been built in between the lines of ‘one’ or the ‘other’, Vietnam and France, home and away, personal and political. He straddles the lines of boundaries set upon those whose lives are prescribed from the time they are born. It is because... Read more -
Phenomenon/(Time x Space) by Yohei Yama
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 28 Jun - 27 Sep 2019 Yohei Yama returns to Vin Gallery with his second solo with the gallery four years after The Power of Semiosis (2015). Yama derives his works from nature, spinning the waves of the cosmos and webbing together the rhythm of natural forces. His oeuvre is distinguishable by it’s repetition and layering... Read more -
Dew drips, Smog seeps by Nguyễn Thuý Hằng
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 26 Apr - 14 Jun 2019 Vin Gallery is proud to present artist Nguyễn Thuý Hằng’s Dew Drips, Smog Seeps: Sculptural Lament Collection. In 'Dew Drips, Smog Seeps’, Hằng seeks to emphasize the instances and spontaneity in life. The moments that seem to pass in a blink of an eye are just as important as the... Read more -
Robots and Flying Machines by Design by Reborn
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 1 Mar - 19 Apr 2019 Vin Gallery is excited to launch Design by Reborn’s third edition of design workings Robots and Flying Machines from the 13th dimension and beyond. This ethereal sculptures and collectables bring together the not-so-distant future with the distant past. The concept gives Old Vietnamese motifs common in the early 19th century... Read more -
The First Lesson by Trần Tuấn
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 21 Dec 2018 - 20 Feb 2019 Vin Gallery is thrilled to present the latest works by prolific artist Trần Tuấn. An artist who is moved and affected by his cultural upbringing presents The First Lesson, a body of work composed of sculpture and large painted imagery of textbooks used during one’s formative years. In his early... Read more -
True Gold Chapter II: The Loyalty by Lê Quý Tông
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 2 Nov - 14 Dec 2018 Vin Gallery is pleased to present Lê Quý Tông’s True Gold Chapter II: The Loyalty. The exhibition features various scale of works on paper and canvas as well as sculptures. The main body of True Gold Chapter II: The Loyalty is built upon found images of political revolutions in our... Read more -
Inside of Me by Nguyễn Thị Châu Giang
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 7 Sep - 20 Oct 2018 Vin Gallery is pleased to present Inside of Me, Nguyễn Thị Châu Giang’s upcoming solo exhibition featuring a spectacular collection of silk paintings. Inside of Me will surprise audiences with both technique and content, making a powerful statement for the strength and power of Vietnamese woman, through the symbol of... Read more -
Rhythm | Graph Yohei by Yama & Annabelle Ng
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 25 Aug - 2 Sep 2018 RHYTHM | GRAPH brings together artists Annabelle Ng and Yohei Yama in a collaborative exploration of movement, sound and nature. The two artists first came together in 2017, collaborating on a sound piece that used their unique relationship to both music and visual art. This coming together of ideas has... Read more -
Upopo O Hana Spirit by Karine Guillermin
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 8 Jun - 25 Aug 2018 Please join us for Karine Guillermin’s solo exhibition ‘Upopo O Hana Spirit’, opening Friday 8 June 2018. Incorporating painting, drawing, ceramic and installation, Karine’s works are a meditation; a pause at the point where dreams and reality intersect. At times intricate, at other times expansive, ‘Upopo O Hana Spirit’ is... Read more -
Phản Niệm by Lê Giang
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 13 Apr - 26 May 2018 Lê Giang lives and works in Hanoi. Educated both in Vietnam and the United Kingdom. Giang approaches her work with both a Western academic sensibility alongside the use of Vietnamese artistic techniques. She has exhibited internationally from London to Philippines, most recently in Hanoi, Vietnam. A traditional building from ancient... Read more -
Nightmare by Prasert Yodkaew
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 2 Mar - 4 Apr 2018 Dreams are elusive. Occasionally crystal clear, but often blurred and buried once the conscious mind awakens. The scenery and scenarios of our dreams impact our memories, leaving a lasting impression. Sometimes vivid and at other times distant and intangible. In his solo exhibition, Nightmare, Thai artist Prasert Yodkaew takes us... Read more -
Water is Life by Sto Len
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 1 Dec 2017 - 6 Jan 2018 In “Nước Là Sự Sống,” artist Sto Len asks these questions as he explores water as medium, metaphor and muse. Water is life. Our bodies consist of nearly 70% water and this water is our life force. When we are healthy, our blood and bodily fluids help circulate water throughout... Read more -
An Era of Half Humanity by Yiu Chi Leung
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 22 Sep - 20 Nov 2017 Vin Gallery presents “An Era of Half-Humanity” by Contemporary artist Yiu Chi Leung. A selection of recent works taken from Leung’s series provide a sobering commentary on themes of industrial globalisation, ethics and advances in consumerism. Through the multimedia exhibition, Leung’s work explores the inherent nihilism of the anthropocene age. Read more -
2 - 1 by Yatender
Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City 11 Aug 2017 - 16 Sep 207 Vin Gallery relaunches this August with an intimate show featuring local photographer Yatender. Yatender has had a busy year. She has shown both locally and internationally, and most recently contributed to Saigon Artbook 7, sharing a small teaser of her portfolio of moments. Yatender’s wider Tinder Project is a largely... Read more
