Artist and Expert Talk as a Part of the Exhibition “Das prachtvolle Gelb läuft über blasse Blätter”

Sat 17 Jan 2015, 7 pm
Goethe Institut

From Goethe Institut:

As a part of the exhibition “Das prachtvolle Gelb läuft über blasse Blätter” the Goethe-Institut Hanoi invites Thai Kim Lan, Veronika Witte, Tran Duc Anh Son and Tran Quang Duc to talk and discuss about the importance and the heritage of the historic garments within Vietnamese culture and history.

Veronika Witte has been working in Berlin since 1998 in the fields of sculpture, video and scenic installations always blurring the lines between visual arts, music and opera. From 1988 to 1993 she studied at the Ecôle Nationale Supérièure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She received awards and grants in Israel, France and Germany, among others. Her scenic installations and performances were shown at the Museum Ludwig in Aachen, the Stadtgaleria in Saarbrücken, the Galerie Quang in Paris and the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bathanien in Berlin inter alia. In 2002 she held the position of visiting professor at the Ecôle Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris.

Thai Kim Lan was born in Hue and studied philosophy and German as a foreign language in Vietnam and Germany. 1976 she received her PhD in philosophy at the LMU in Munich and was teaching there until 2007 as a private lecturer for comparative philosophy. Since 1994 she has also been teaching in Ho Chi Minh City and Hue. She is co-founder of two associations for German-Vietnamese encounters. Besides her publications in the field of philosophy Thai Kim Lan wrote cookbooks, essays and poems and translated texts of German authors and poets, amongst them Bertolt Brecht. Poems from her own bilingual volume of poems “In einem kälteren Land – Lanh hon xu minh” (“In a colder country”) won prices in Germany and Vietnam.

Tran Quang Duc, born in 1985, is one of Vietnam’s younger generation of art historians. He studied Chinese at the Hanoi National University after which he received a full scholarship from Peking University. His specialization is the comparative study of Vietnamese cultural history within the Southeast Asian context. His book “Ngàn năm áo mũ” (“One Thousand Years of Garments”), published in 2013, was a great success and was awarded the prize “Worthy Book 2014 / New Discovery”.

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