Wednesday Night Self-Profession
Opening: 11:11 PM, Wed 11 Nov 2026
Dates: 11 Nov – 02 Dec 2026
Á Space
Alley 59 Ngô Gia Tự, Việt Hưng ward, Hà Nội
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From the organizer:
Á Space is pleased to present Wednesday Night Self-Profession by Nguyễn Huy An. Instead of painting, installation, or performance—art practices that made his name known, Nguyễn Huy An has decided to present himself through poetry for this event.
Wednesday Night Self-Profession unfolds through a series of four main events held weekly (on Wednesday evenings, of course), beginning on November 11, 2026. Through a simple, almost banal yet direct mode of presentation, Nguyễn Huy An invites audiences into his poetic world, where he shares the innermost corners of his sincere, unassuming, and deeply romantic soul. The artist himself is not yet certain how these works will come to occupy his practice, but they are the most genuine reflections that have accumulated inside him over the past few years.
Visitors are welcome to visit Á Space from Friday to Sunday during regular exhibition hours to experience the installation—the residue of each Wednesday night.
Wednesday Night Self-Profession is curated by Phạm Minh Hiếu. Having followed one another’s practices for some time, this event is the first time they collaborate on an exhibition.
Schedule
* Session 01: 11:11 PM, Wednesday, 11 November 2026
* Session 02: 07 PM, Wednesday, 18 November 2026
* Session 03: 07 PM, Wednesday, 25 November 2026
* Session 04: 07 PM, Wednesday, 2 December 2026
The event will also be open to visitors on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays during Á Space’s regular opening hours.
Nguyễn Huy An (b. 1982, Vietnam) graduated from the Department of Arts Education, Vietnam University of Fine Arts in 2018. Working with familiar objects and everyday rituals, studying both the beliefs and habits that surround their use, Huy An perceives that all matter has memory. His sculptures, paintings, drawings and installations explore the impact of time as a cyclical space, drawn to the socio-political relationship between human and non-human worlds as potentially transformative, desiring the present moment to be of greater focus in contemporary life. Huy An is a founding member of Appendix Group (Phục Lục), a collective of performance artists whose works humorously critique the irrationality of human behavior, often anchored in local folk tradition or superstitious belief.
Nguyen Huy An has participated in various exhibitions and performance art festivals over the last decade, including the 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015); Singapore Biennale (2013), and other exhibitions in France, Sweden, Norway, and China.
Phạm Minh Hiếu (b. 1996, Hanoi, Vietnam) holds a BA with Honors in Art Practice from Stanford University. He ponders the complex of contemporaneity, speculates withdrawn realities and creates dwellings which he calls ‘total installation,’ where things, culminated from various modes of making, gather and unfold across scales. In 2024, Phạm Minh Hiếu represented the first Vietnam Pavilion at the 15th Gwangju Biennale Pavilion.
He is currently the curator for Trưng Vương Secondary School’s Heritage Room. He was also in the curatorial team of Hanoi Children’s Palace: Nostalgia for the Future, one of the focal exhibitions of the Hanoi Festival of Creative Design 2024.
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