Artists: A Sông Kollektiv, ba-bau AIR Kollektiv, Kayle Brandon, Felix Dreesen, Quang Vinh Giang, Yuhei Higashikata, Jeroen Jacobs, Đình Bảo Châu Ngô, Vũ Hải Nguyễn, Lem Trag Nguyễn, Alexander Noah, Benjamin Sunarjo, Florian Witt
Fri 14 November, 7 pm
Welcome: Veronika Witte, director Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten
Introduction: Ingo Vetter (Hochschule für Künste Bremen) and Cao Tiênh Thanh (Heritage Art Space Hanoi)
The Month of Art Practice (MAP) is an annual project organised by Heritage Art Space in Hanoi, Vietnam, serving as a platform for the exchange of artistic strategies, collective work and sustainable, intercultural dialogue. International artists come together with art school graduates to jointly develop artistic practices and thematic exhibitions. In cooperation with the University of the Arts Bremen, this format has been expanded to include a working group in Germany. Since 2022, a collaborative process has been underway to develop and realise diverse perspectives on the theme of mobility in analogue and digital formats. From multidisciplinary perspectives, the artists look at the movement of people, goods, ideas and intangible things, as well as the traces they leave behind.
After three years, the collaborative project is now coming to an end and, with MAP 2025 – Arrival?, is focusing on the ambivalence of arrival. The eleven artists and two collectives address topics such as migration, language and translation, intercultural exchange and global transport. Performances, sound works, participatory actions, videos, and in situ sculptures question the supposed linearity of travel, the dead ends of freight transport, shared rituals and different memories, the loss of space-time coordinates, and the finality of a plastic form.
The results of the collaboration will be presented both in urban spaces and in two parallel exhibitions at Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten in Berlin and Long Bien Art Space in Hanoi, and finally documented in a publication.
Curated bx: Anh Tuấn Nguyễn, Ingo Vetter, and Veronika Witte.
A cooperation of Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten with the Heritage Art Space Hanoi and the Hochschule für Künste Bremen.
The exhibition is supported by the district funding programmes of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, the ifa – Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, the German Aerospace Centre, Pro Helvetia, the Karin and Uwe Hollweg Foundation and the Waldemar Koch Foundation.
