HCMC – First Open Studio of San Art Laboratory

Sat 30 Jun 2012, 10.30 am – 3.30 pm
Zoe’s Talk: Sat 30 Jun 2012, 3 pm
San Art

From San Art:
Please join San Art Laboratory’s 1st Open Studio this Saturday 30 June. Three artists-in-residence are spending 6 months with San Art Laboratory and this Open Studio is their official salutation to the public. After one month of making themselves’ accquainted with HCMC, Mami Tuan Nguyen (Hanoi), Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai (Hue) and Truong Cong Tung (Daklak-HCMC) open their studio for visitors to ask questions and hear more of their first ideas and thoughts on what they aim to produce during their residency. Please come and have a casual and friendly chat in each artist’s studio!

At 3pm, Zoe Butt, Executive-Director and Curator of Sàn Art will share her experiences of the current exhibition ‘dOCUMENTA (13)’ by curator Carolyn Christov Bakargiev d13.documenta.de – arguably one of the most important contemporary art exhibitions that occurs every 5 years.

‘San Art Laboratory’ is a studio/residency program initiated and managed by San Art in Ho Chi Minh City. Situated in separate furnished premises with communal kitchen, nearby ‘San Art’ in Binh Thanh District, ‘San Art Laboratory’ provides three Vietnamese artists with an art studio and living quarters for six months each, beginning May, 2012.

Lab Session 2 is now open for application til 1st August.
See here for more information.
Lab Session 1: May 14 – November 14, 2012
Lab Session 2: December 1, 2012 – May 1, 2013

For more information, please contact: [email protected]
For artists bio and information, please visit: http://san-art.org/SanArtLaboratory/lab-session-1.html

Parking is located at 2 Me Linh, Binh Thanh (opposite San Art Gallery). San Art Laboratory is a short walk around the corner.