๐‹๐ž๐ฆ ๐“๐ซ๐š๐ ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ฒ๐ž๐ง 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.

My residency will deepen my work onย Cรตng ฤ‘รกย while enriching the collective artistic environment through exchange activities.

I aim to explore the intersections between institutional systems and cultural development, focusing on Eastern and Western dynamics.

My goal is to advance my project while fostering a collaborative, cross-cultural dialogue within the Rijksakademie community.

Her works took part in some exhibitions and performance festivals, including: In:act festival 2017 (Hanoi), NIPAF International 2018 (Japan), 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 lร  - a platform focused on performance art in Vietnam.

Remarkable activities/projects in 2020 โ€“ 2022:ย She participated in Wuwei Performance Series (Singapore) in 2020, MAP โ€“ Month of Art Practice (Vietnam) in 2020 & 2021. In 2021, Lem founded Hay lร  โ€“ a platform focusing on performance arts in Vietnam. In 2022, she joined the talk โ€œPerformance Art: The Possibilities of Body Language in Performance Spaceโ€ at the Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (VCCA), Nแป• Cรกi Bรนm in Dalat, Vietnam. Her project โ€œNแป‘i ( )โ€ was also awarded funding from the Golden Rice Flower Grant 2021 โ€“ 2022, which was established within the programme Choreogra-free Lab. Her work โ€œCรตng ฤ‘รก IIIโ€ was included in Documenta 15 in Kassel, Germany. (*)

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LEM TRAGNGUYEN ______________________________________________________

Base in Stuttgart (GE) and Hanoi (VN)

Contact: [email protected]


EXHIBITION

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2024 ifa-Galerie, Spacedumpling: Eleven-Day Kitchen Celebration, Stuttgart, DE

Suprainfinit Gallery, Suprainfinit Collisions- Marathon of Art Practices, Bucharest, Romania

Group Exhibition, UNREAL ESTATE, Bucharest, Romania