𝐋𝐞𝐦 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐍𝐠𝐮𝐲𝐞𝐧 was born in Germany and having grown up between Germany and Vietnam. She began experimenting with Contemporary Art since 2017. Recently, she works with various media such as installation, moving image, sound and particularly performance.

She is interested in questioning the relationships between the individual and culture, the porous borders that separate the public from the private, the fleeting nature of human relationships, the mutability of our sense of origin and belonging, and an acute awareness of temporality, mobility and displacement.

Her works took part in some exhibitions and performance festivals, including: In:act festival 2017 (Hanoi), 20+ Anniversary of Nhasan Studio (Vietnam), Confusion is Chaos Buried by Tranzit (Prague) in 2019, Wuwei Performance Series (Singapore) in 2020, MAP- Month of Art Practice (Vietnam) in 2020 & 2021, 4th Industrial Art Biennale Istria in 2023, *Suprainfinit Collisions- Marathon of Art Practices (*Bucharest, Ro), Spacedumpling: Eleven-Day Kitchen Celebration at ifa-Galerie Stuttgart in 2024.

In 2022, Lem TragNguyen is a selected participant of Documenta 15 (Kassel) as a member of Nha San collective. In 2021, she founded Hay là - a platform focused on performance art in Vietnam.

Remarkable activities/projects in 2020 – 2022: She participated in Wuwei Performance Series (Singapore) in 2020, MAP – Month of Art Practice (Vietnam) in 2020 & 2021. In 2021, Lem founded Hay là – a platform focusing on performance arts in Vietnam. In 2022, she joined the talk “Performance Art: The Possibilities of Body Language in Performance Space” at the Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (VCCA), Nổ Cái Bùm in Dalat, Vietnam. Her project “Nối ( )” was also awarded funding from the Golden Rice Flower Grant 2021 – 2022, which was established within the programme Choreogra-free Lab. Her work “Cõng đá III” was included in Documenta 15 in Kassel, Germany. (*)