by Bill Nguyen

The culturally and historically significant landmark of Hanoi, Long Bien bridge, was transformed into a spectacle of arts and festivity. Concerts, performances, lion dance, ethnic parades aren’t necessarily meaningful forms of engagemnet, as our Vietnam correspondent muses and responds.

by Bill Nguyen

Review: Anthony Bannwart + Magnus Aronson’s Tempography @ Goethe-Institut, Hanoi

Our Hanoi correspondent discovers poignancy in the video medium – to catch a brief moment, a short movement, and the continuity of that moment/movement, which a photograph can’t record, and which the camera(man) tends to overlook.

by Bill Nguyen

Review: Hoang Minh Duc’s Longan @ Nha San Duc, Hanoi

Intervention of the ‘longan’ in Nha San Duc creates playfully new ways for viewers to engage with the architectural structure of a contemporary art space housed under a traditional Muong stilt house.

by Bill Nguyen

Review: Nguyen Phuong Linh’s Salt @ Galerie Qunyh

Salt exists in many different forms – as fluid, crystals and air. It also becomes a personal and poetic language that engages with the social history of salt production in Vietnam.

By Kelvin Chuah

Exhibition Review: When was the last time contemporary Vietnamese Art was featured in its entirety in Kuala Lumpur? I must confess that I am no expert in Vietnamese contemporary art. In a way, I was looking forward to what this exhibition had to offer, in terms of contemporary practice. Man, was I blown away.

By ARTERI

A round up of this week’s exhibition openings and closings in KL. So many works, shows, and people to see, get yer skates on, its going to be a busy 7 days for the Art World!