Exhibition “Das prachtvolle Gelb läuft über blasse Blätter”
Exhibition: 16 – 30 31 Jan 2015, 9 am – 7 pm
Artist and Expert Talk: Sat 17 Jan 2015, 7 pm (More info here)
Guided Tours: 18, 22 and 30 Jan 2015 (More info here)
Goethe Institut
From Goethe Institut:
To mark the jubilee of 40 years of diplomatic relations between Germany and Vietnam the Goethe-Institut will present the exhibition “The gorgeous yellow runs over pale leaves” with historic Ao Dais from the Emperors court in Hue from the private collection of Thai Kim Lan.
From the private collection of Thai Kim Lan gorgeous historic Ao Dais from the Emperors court in Hue are presented in Hanoi.
The garments will be embedded in an elaborate multimedia space installation with elements from daily life in Vietnam as well as staged within a video performance on eight screens. Through the appropriation, usage, reservation and the disappearance of Ao Dais they acquired meaning and importance – now theirs stories will be told in this exhibition at the Goethe-Institut Hanoi.
In the interview installation eight individuals talk with each other about the Ao Dais without ever having met – like the 95-year-old court lady of the Empress and the 19-year-old student. Fictional conversations about preserving, time and the meaning of Ao Dais in their own lives develop.
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.
Free entrance.
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