[Art]Salon serves as the backbone of each issue — articulating the central theme through in-depth conversations with artists, curators, and art scholars.

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Slipping through gaps: The liminal worlds of Cian Duggan

A conversation with Cian Duggan on the occasion of his first solo exhibition at Galerie Quynh.

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Nguyen Duc Tin: Anatomy of a belief

A conversation with Nguyen Duc Tin (Lukeloantin) – a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is deeply rooted in inspirations drawn from Vietnamese historical lore and Catholicism.

Kept by the groundskeeper

Meeting Mr. Thuyên – the caretaker of the graves of artist Điềm Phùng Thị, her husband, and her mother.

Retracing The East-West Confluence

Cultural scholar Phan Cẩm Thượng shares insights into the influence and manifestations of the East–West convergence in the evolution of Vietnamese fine arts.

Truong Tan: Born to do performance art

Editor-in-Chief Ace Le sat down with Truong Tan – a pioneer of early Vietnamese contemporary art.

When artists had to self-curate

Nguyen Minh Phuoc (b. 1973) is both an artist and a curator concerned by the condition of life of the Vietnamese people, the poverty and the lack of social services.

The soul of salon natasha was Vu Dan Tan

Natalia Kraevskaia (aka Natasha) (b. 1952), is an independent art researcher specialising in Vietnamese contemporary art.

Still not enough infrastructure for art

Tran Luong (b. 1960) is a visual artist, independent curator, and a pioneer in creating space for critical contemporary art in Vietnam.

I consider Nha San folks my teachers

Phuong Linh (b. 1985) is a visual artist living and practicing in Hanoi. She co-founded and is one of five people running Nha San collective since 2013.

“Contemporary” is different from place to place

Bui Nhu Huong (b. 1953), belongs to the first batch of post-war Vietnamese art critics.

“Ky Nam Inn”: A cinematic rebuttal to the Western gaze on post-war Vietnam

Speaking with Art Nation, Leon Le discusses his refusal to equate success with international film festival validation, and the profound yet unheralded poetics of Vietnamese cinema.

Karaoke with a diasporic

Quynh Dong (b. 1982, Hai Phong, Vietnam) is a performance and video-based artist based in Switzerland. Her practice transforms hyper-realism into surrealism through hyper-kitsch expressions to revitalise the notion of a cliche aesthetic...

In Long Bien’s dusk basks the jester

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