Vietnamese artists to attend German exhibition Documenta for first time
Vietnam’s artist Nguyen Trinh Thi and Nha San Collective have been selected to participate the 15th edition of contemporary arts exhibition Documenta (Documenta 15) in Germany’s Kassel next year.
Hanoi-based filmmaker and artist Nguyen Trinh Thi. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam’s artist Nguyen Trinh Thi and Nha San Collective havebeen selected to participate the 15th edition of contemporary artsexhibition Documenta (Documenta 15) in Germany’s Kassel next year.
Documenta15 marks the first time Vietnam has sent representatives to the event, saidcurator Ace Le from Singapore.
Thiis a Hanoi-based filmmaker and artist. Thi uses montage to compose her works,drawing on different image media, from her own audio and visual recordings tofound footage and still images from postcards, photography, newsreels,Hollywood films and ethnographic footage. She is also interested inincorporating new media into current works, including organic materials andnatural forces.
Nha San Collective, Artists gathering at Nha San during Lunar New Year’s Eve in Hanoi in 2018. (Photo: documenta-fifteen.de)
Herfilms and video art works have been shown at festivals and art exhibitions,including the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane (2018);21st Biennale of Sydney (2018); International Film Festival Rotterdam (2016);Jeu de Paume, Paris (2015); CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (2015);13th Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale (2015); Asian Art Biennial, Taichung(2015), among others.
In2009, Thi founded Hanoi DOCLAB, an independent centre for documentary film andthe moving image in Hanoi. In 2015 – 2016, she was a fellow of the DAADArtists-in-Berlin Programme.
NhaSan Collective began operating as an independent artist collective in Hanoi in2013, when a group of friends set up a publicly accessible space.
NhaSan Collective has worked with fellow companions and collaborators to organizeexhibitions, workshops, film screenings, talks, and other activities as asupport platform for artists in the community./.
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Hanoi-based filmmaker and artist Nguyen Trinh Thi. (Photo: VNA)
Nha San Collective, Artists gathering at Nha San during Lunar New Year’s Eve in Hanoi in 2018. (Photo: documenta-fifteen.de) 
