Artist talk: Choose to move

The artists in San Art Laboratory session 6 have just concluded their residency with the group exhibition ‘Choose to move’. Orawan Arunrak distilled various dreams of owning any place in Vietnam in her small pink paintings. Tran Tuan who was followed persistently by the consequences of past choices contemplated the haunting problem anew with his very first experimental video. Ta Minh Duc also followed a legend of survival and; with his videos he questioned the power of self-awareness, in parallel attempted a solution for the conflict between nature and human...

Choose to move

Opening: 12.05.2015 @10.30 AM – 6.30 PM Exhibition on view until 06.04.2019 Location: Saigon Domaine 1057 Binh Quoi, Ward 28, Binh Thanh San Art is pleased to present the works of resident artists Tran Tuan, Orawan Arunrak, and Ta Minh Duc from session 6 of our San Art Laboratory program. The exhibition is an investigation into the power of self reflection juxtaposed against distinctive social and historical contexts in Vietnam. Tran Tuan (Hue) once again responds to the family story that has persistently followed his life and practice, only this...
Opening: 14.07.2015  Exhibition on view until 18.08.2015 Location: San Art and Kick Starter San Art 48/7 Me Linh, Binh Thanh Kickstarter http://kck.st/1Tpxi6t   This is a very special exhibition of San Art, not only to celebrate San Art Laboratory’s 3rd anniversary, but also to launch a fundraising month for this artist residency program on Kickstarter! Do you know that this campaign is selected to be non-profit art fundraising by the prestigious art fair Art Basel? Read more about our big campaign on Art Basel’s curated page for Kickstarter at http://kck.st/1Tpxi6t...

Lab 6: Open Studio 1 & Workshop

Lab 6: Open Studio 1 & Workshop with Fernanda Eugénio & Gustavo Ciríaco (Brazil)   4 PM: SITE-SPECIFIC PRACTICES: PERFORMING THE SPACE   with Fernanda Eugénio & Gustavo Ciríaco (Brazil) Where: San Art Laboratory, 40/18 Pham Viet Chanh, Binh Thanh, HCMc This workshop is an introduction to site-specific artistic practices, which use the space, its location, characteristics and particularities (in terms of habits, architecture, circulation and cultural patterns) as the basis for the creation of performative work. The aim is to explore the downtown area of Ho Chi Minh City and...

Come to [what] end?

A group exhibition featuring Pham Dinh Tien, Nguyen Tran Nam and Rudy ‘Atjeh’ D Opening: 06.11.2014 @6:30pm Exhibition on view until 30.01.2015 Location: Sàn Art 3 Me Linh, Binh Thanh Ho Chi Minh City   Sàn Art is pleased to present ‘Come to [what] end?’ – a group exhibition featuring installation, sculpture, video and paper-cut work by artists Pham Dinh Tien, Nguyen Tran Nam and Rudy ‘Atjeh’ D, concluding their time with ‘Sàn Art Laboratory: Session Five’. Curiosity is an innate part of human nature. Children often ponder in fascination...