Nha San Collective ( Eng. Nhà Sàn Collective ) - the first non-profit art space, managed by the artists themselves, created in Vietnam in 1998 - at the initiative of curator Chan Lyong and artist Nguyen Man Duc; specializes in contemporary experimental art ; has several premises in the city of Hanoi [1] - having extremely limited financial resources, appeared in a private house; repeatedly censored by the authorities - for environmental and economic issues; holds group and personal exhibitions [2] .
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Content
- 1 History and activities
- 2 See also
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
- 5 Links
History and Activities
In 1998, the artist and curator Chan Lyonga ( Vietnamese. Trần Lương , born 1960) and the artist Nguyen Man Dyka ( Vietnamese. Nguyễn Mạnh Đức ) founded the Nhà Sàn Studio in Hanoi , which became the first experimental art space in the country - the first the studio venue was Nguyen Man Duc's own house, a house on wooden stilts, which gave the name of the studio. The studio became the venue for underground exhibitions of alternative art , as the creators believed that at that time the local fine arts "came to a standstill."
In 2013, a team of artists who worked and exhibited in the studio decided to create the Nhà Sàn Collective association, with the goal of creating a stable structure for the development of contemporary art in Vietnam, despite numerous political restrictions in the country's cultural environment. Today, the Nha San Collective spaces are still a place for experimentation in art - but they are distinguished by a more open approach, due to the decrease in the scale of repressions against unofficial Vietnamese artists in the 21st century. In addition, the studio and the team provide local artists with the opportunity to collaborate with international authors, conducting a cultural exchange - primarily with neighboring countries. Exhibitions, workshops , seminars, lectures and discussions with foreign artists and curators have gradually become part of studio life.
In 2010, the studio was closed due to a scandal during the festival “IN: ACT”, associated with the appearance of one of the artists completely naked in public; The photographs from the production were made public without any background information or explanation, including on Vietnamese television . But at the end of April 2013, the studio reopened in the abandoned building of the former National Medicine Factory No. 2 ”in Hanoi, at Tran Thanh Tong Street, house 9. The artists decided to rent a room of 150 square meters - and jointly turn it into a workshop and exhibition area. During the first six months of his stay in Zone 9, the Nha San Collective organized two festivals and 11 exhibitions on the new venue; but soon a fire broke out in the building, which killed six people - which led to the closure of the studio in December 2013.
From "Zone 9" the team moved to the center of old Hanoi, on Ly Quoc Su; as part of the celebration of the opening of a new artistic space, the group organized a collective exhibition, The Clouds Will Tell, at which the works of young artists were presented. The venue continued to work until August 2015, when the studio moved to a new building located in the Hanoi Creative City cultural center - the move was marked by the opening of the from.to. exhibition. The team's local partners were Hanoi Creative City, Goethe Institute , Manzi Art Space, Japan Foundation, Korean Center, and Art Vietnam Gallery.
See also
- Artlords
- Wei Ling Gallery
- Museum of Modern Art (Jakarta)
- Museum of Modern Art (Taipei)
Notes
- ↑ Sonia Sarkar. Female Artists Challenge Vietnam's Gender Stereotypes . ozy.com . OZY (February 27, 2019). Date accessed August 16, 2019.
- ↑ Patrick Gubry, Frank Castiglioni, Jean-Michel Cusset, Nguyen Thi Thieng, Pham Thuy Huong. The Vietnamese City in Transition . - Institute of Southeast Asian, 2010 .-- S. 19 .-- 365 p. - ISBN 9789812308252 .
Literature
- John Zarobell Art and the Global Economy . - Univ of California Press, 2017 .-- S. 267. - 340 p. - ISBN 9780520291539 .
- Yvonne Spielmann. Contemporary Indonesian Art: Artists, Art Spaces, and Collectors . - NUS Press, 2017 .-- S. 32. - 189 p. - ISBN 9789814722360 .
Links
- Nhà Sàn Collective: Non-profit organization . artfacts.net . ArtFacts.Net GmbH. Date accessed August 16, 2019.