MAP 2025 – Arrival?

With works by:
A Sông Collective, ba-bau AIR Collective, Kayle Brandon, Felix Dreesen, Quang Vinh Giang, Yuhei Higashikata, Jeroen Jacobs, Đình Bảo Châu Ngô, Lem Trag Nguyễn, Vũ Hải Nguyễn, Alexander Noah, Benjamin Sunarjo and Florian Witt


Opening: Friday, 14 November, 7 p.m.

• Welcome: Veronika Witte
  
• Introduction: Ingo Vetter (Bremen University of the Arts) and Cao Thiên Thanh (Heritage Art Space Hanoi)
  

The Month of Art Practice (MAP) is an annual project organised by the Heritage Art Space in Hanoi, Vietnam, and serves as a platform for the exchange of artistic strategies, collective work and sustainable, intercultural dialogue.
International artists come together with graduates of art colleges 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. In a collaborative process, diverse perspectives on the theme of mobility have been developed and realised in analogue and digital formats since 2022.
From multidisciplinary perspectives, the artists look at the movement of people, goods, ideas and immaterial 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 deal with 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 space 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 by Anh Tuấn Nguyễn, Ingo Vetter, and Veronika Witte
  

Accompanying events:

Sat 15 Nov, 4 pm
Artist talk
with A Sông Collective, Đình Bảo Châu Ngô and Vũ Hải Nguyễn
KTT – Activation of the apartment block game
with Vũ Hải Nguyễn, Jochen Becker (metroZones), Michelle Howard (constructconcept) and other guests

Thu 20 Nov, 4–6 pm
Flash cards of memory
Open drawing workshop with Quang Vinh Giang

Sat 6 Dec, 6 pm
Opening II at Long Biên Art Space, Hanoi

Sat 13 Dec, 5 p.m.
Lecture performance with music
with Lem Trag Nguyen and Nhi Dương

• A collaboration between Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten, Heritage Art Space Hanoi and the University of the Arts Bremen.