Hue – Exhibition “DAS PRACHTVOLLE GELB LÄUFT ÜBER BLASSE BLÄTTER”
Opening: Wed 18 May 2016, 5 pm
Artist Talk: Wed 18 May 2016, 7 pm
Exhibition: 18 May – 12 Jun 2016, 08 – 11 am and 2 – 5 pm
Museum of Culture Hue
23 – 25 Le Loi, Hue
From Goethe Institut:
Historic Ao Dais from the collection of Thai Kim Lan presented in a multimedia installation by Veronika Witte.
After the success of the exhibition of the private collection of Thai Kim Lan in Hanoi last year, the gorgeous historic Ao Dais from the Emperors court in Hue return to their place of origin. The Goethe-Institut Hanoi presents the collection in a multimedia installation by Veronika Witte at the Hue Cultural Museum.
The garments will be embedded in an elaborate multimedia space installation with elements from daily life in Vietnam as well as staged within two video performances. Through the appropriation, usage, reservation and the disappearance of Ao Dais they acquired meaning and importance – now their stories will be told in this exhibition at the Hue Cultural Museum.
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.
The exhibition’s opening on May 18, 2016, is followed by a talk with the artists Thai Kim Lan and Veronika Witte. Admission is free.
Veronika Witte has been working in Berlin since 1998 in the fields of sculpture, video and scenic installations and 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 Stadtgalerie in Saarbrücken, the Galerie Quang in Paris and the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien in Berlin. In 2010, the artist came to Vietnam to give lectures and hold workshops at various art academies in Hanoi, Hue and Saigon.
Thai Kim Lan was born in Hue and studied philosophy and German as a foreign language in Vietnam and Germany. In 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 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.
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