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Veronika Radulovic is a drawing artist. A conceptual artist. A photographer. A writer. In 1993, she went to Hanoi to learn the Vietnamese lacquer technique Son Mai. She stayed – four months turned into 13 years. Her exhibition at the state gallery 29 Hang Bai in 1994 was the first state-approved international cooperation with artists in Vietnam. Über den Anfang … was the title. What followed is an intercultural dialogue that continues to this day: the first DAAD lectureship at the Hanoi University of Art, numerous publications, curatorial activities, exhibitions and innovative projects. She became a pioneer of international artistic dialog between Germany and Vietnam.

The Grenzgängerinnen exhibition series at Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten now dedicates the first institutional solo exhibition in Berlin to her diverse artistic practice and presents a selection of her works which were created and exhibited in Hanoi but have rarely been shown in Berlin to date.

Red River – a central lacquer work and a reminiscence of Vietnamese landscape painting – not only stands for her own and social change in Vietnam, but also gives insight into a technique that is virtually unknown in Germany. Her works, mostly in series, narrate personal stories in the context of Vietnam and its entangled colonial history, and also take a self-ironical look at her role as a mediator and her position as a ‘Western artist’ who has engaged in a long-term dialogue with Southeast Asian countries.

This exhibition is the last part of the 20th anniversary programme of the Kunstverein Tiergarten, which is dedicated to the phenomenon of time and temporality from various perspectives.

Curated by Veronika Witte

With the kind support of the district development funds of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.