VAC - Calm Space, photography exhibition

Viet Art Centre

Que Huong Photograph Group
Calm Space

Opening - Mon, 12 May, 6 pm

Eta Bar - Photo Exhibition, Live Music

Eta Bar

Exhibition opens Sat, 10 May, 3 pm
Music starts 8.30 pm

Boris Zuliani - photo exhibition
Polemika Pravda - Hanoian garage ska band

An obviously objective correspondent passed this announcement to the Grapevine:

A combined event of the opening of a photo exhibition by Boris Zuliani followed by a scintillating performance by renowned Hanoian garage ska band Polemika Pravda in the new Ete performance space on the top floor…

Attention Women Photographers (age 15-25)

Barbara Wolff

Time Travel - Photography Workshop for Women Photographers aged 15-25

Sun, 11 and 18 May, 10 am - 5 pm

Goethe - Conceptual Photography in Germany

Barbara Wolff will address the development of conceptual photography in Germany since the beginning of the eighties

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

Wed, 14 May, 6 pm

Barbara Wolff | photographer | Munich School of Design

Lecture | Photo presentation
Conceptual Photography in Germany

Mediterranean Beauty - Nguyen Viet Thanh

The photographic exhibition “Mediterranean Beauty”, organized by the Embassy of Italy in Hanoi within the Cultural Season “Spring of Passion for Woman”, presents in Ly Thay To Square shots of everyday feminine life taken by Nguyen Viet Thanh during his travels in Italy.

Nguyen Viet Thanh

MEDITERRANEAN BEAUTY

Ly Thay To Square
10-16 May

Opening: Sat, 10 May, 6 pm

a ‘Europe Days 2008‘ event

The photographic exhibition “Mediterranean beauty”, organized by the Embassy of Italy in Hanoi within the Cultural Season “Spring of Passion for Woman”, presents in Ly Thay To Square shoots of everyday feminine life taken by Nguyen Viet Thanh during his travels in Italy. The opening will take place on May 10th 2008 at 6 pm.

25-29 Apr - L’Espace - 3 Days 3 Artists

L’Espace - CCF
24 Trang Tien, Hanoi

Opening: Thurs, 24 Apr, 6 pm
Discussion: Fri, 25 Apr, 5 pm

Intimate Stories

Video Painting Photography
Pham Thi Hao
Nguyen Quoc Thanh
Tran Hau The Yen

Stories of sensitive places to lift the veil, to better understand contemporary sexuality.

18 Apr-04 May - Module 7 - “Rolling” Documentary Photos

Module 7 Gallery
9 Au Co, Tay Ho, Hanoi

Opening - Fri, 18 Apr, 6.30 pm

Sheppard Ferguson

Rolling

Module 7 Gallery Announces the Documentary Photo Exhibit “Rolling”

In contemporary Vietnam, it is all there on the motorbikes. People in Hanoi say they “no longer see the bikes.” But, in Sheppard Ferguson’s photo exhibit, “Rolling,” he sees them. Documentary photography, according to Ferguson, “makes visible that which is so familiar that people no longer see it.” And the bikes are visible: graphic, richly colored and humorously human.

10-16 Apr - Maison des Arts - Passion for woman

Maison des Arts
31a Van Mieu, Hanoi

Opening - Thurs, 10 Apr, 6 pm

Ngoc Thai

Passion for woman - Feminine way everyday

The photographs displayed in this exhibition, all in black and white and all taken before 2000, present different aspects of the daily life of Vietnamese women. “This is an opportunity which I cannot miss, since I have been taking pictures of women for decades;;;”

28 Mar-18 Apr - Art Vietnam - Beat Presser ‘Oasis of Silence’

Art Vietnam Gallery
7 Nguyen Khac Nhu, Hanoi

Opening - Fri, 28 Mar, 6 pm

Beat Presser

Oasis of Silence
a collection of 64 black and white photographs by Beat Presser documenting the practice of Theravada Buddhism throughout Southeast Asia.

It is with great pleasure that Art Vietnam presents both Beat Presser’s “Oasis of Silence” and the workshop/cultural exchange project “My Oasis of Silence“. Please join us at 6pm on March 28, 2008 at Art Vietnam Gallery to celebrate what promises to be an exciting month for photography in Vietnam.

27-29 Mar - L’Espace - 3 days, 3 artists

L’Espace - CCF
24 Trang Tien, Hanoi

Opening: Wed, 26 Mar, 6 pm
Encounter - debate: Thurs, 27 Mar, 5 pm

3 = 1 (Weightless)

Photographs by Viet Quang and Van Phung
paintings by Dinh Quang

The project 3 Days - 3 Artists takes place this month under the banner of contemplation.