Open Studio | Sàn Art Studio #2

Open-Studio | Sàn Art Studio #2 Date & Time: Fri-Sat, 19 & 20th May @3PM-8PM Location: Sàn Art Millenium Masteri, Units B.16 & B.17 132 Ben Van Don, Ward 6, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Language: Vietnamese/English We were so happy to see the community pop in to see Artist-in-Residence Trần Thảo Miên’s haunting tree shrine-in-the-making at a 2-day open-studio event at Sàn Art. The open-studio was a great opportunity to meet the artist and get a chance to see a residency project in the making. We also...

Sàn Art Studio #2 with Trần Thảo Miên

“We make use of the tree in all kinds of forms, physically and spiritually…We worship gods and ghosts that reside in and on the trees, but no one actually pays respect to the tree itself.” – Trần Thảo Miên Our second artist-in-residence is Trần Thảo Miên, a Hanoi-based artist whose work approaches trees and other nonhuman beings through the Vietnamese belief “Van vat huu linh” (all beings are with souls). In the process of material-based practices and experiments, Miên approaches arboreal and living creatures according to animism from an anthropological...

Sàn Art Studio #1 with Chi L.Nguyen

Sàn Art Studio is a six-week residency program, launched in April 2022, providing support and funds for practicing artists in a post-Covid landscape. Sàn Art Studio was made with support from British Council Vietnam through Cultural and Creative Hubs Vietnam (CHV), in collaboration with VICAS. Our first artist in residency is Chi L. Nguyen, an artist & designer from Hanoi, Vietnam. With a background in Visual Communication – Illustration, she explores her practice in both artistic projects and design in mixed media. During her stay at Sàn Art, Chi sets...