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Finest Projects 2024-2025: The Oddball, the Rebel, and the Maverick

Posted on 10/04/2025

THE ODDBALL, THE REBEL, AND THE MAVERICK

About project: The exhibition “The Oddball, the Rebel, and the Maverick” was organised by The Outpost Art Organisation, featuring works by Lê Công Thành, Vũ Dân Tân, Trần Trung Tín, Nguyễn Mạnh Đức, Trương Tân, Nguyễn Minh Thành, Nguyễn Văn Cường, and Nguyễn Quang Huy on loan from Nguyen Art Foundation.

The selected works were created by artists who were active and prominent in the Hanoi art movements in the post-Đổi Mới (Renewal) period (1980s – 2000s). This time frame is considered by observers and researchers as the heydays of Vietnamese contemporary art, marked by the emergence of experimental artists. Their works went beyond the aesthetic and ideological framework taught in the formal institutional system.

Within the parameters of a private collection, this exhibition celebrated a humble fragment of a diverse range of unconventional, bold, and pioneering artistic practices that have contributed to the richness and vibrancy of the Hanoi art scene. There, we can see the efforts to push the creative boundaries of ‘the oddball’, or the criticality of ‘the rebel’, and last but not least, the eccentric yet raw souls of ‘the maverick’.

The exhibition placed the artworks from the collections of The Outpost Art Organisation and Nguyen Art Foundation in a peer-to-peer dialogue to demonstrate the concerns of art organisations on how they can collaborate, share resources and push boundaries to support Vietnam’s art scene.

Art form: Art exhibition

Duration: 07.05 – 28.07.2024

Organizer: The Outpost Art Organisation, Nguyen Art Foundation

Activities: Exhibition, curator’s tours

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HANOI GRAPEVINE’s FINEST is an annual event that honors contemporary art projects in Vietnam. The event is organized and nominated by Hanoi Grapevine and the general audience.

Entering its 6th year, Hanoi Grapevine’s Finest aims to go beyond an annual honouring event to become a contemporary archive of Vietnam’s art and cultural landscape, as well as a foundational platform to promote interdisciplinary collaborations both domestically and internationally, towards an open, fair, and transparent ecosystem.

This year, Hanoi Grapevine’s Finest 2024-2025 is divided into two major categories: Honouring and Recognition. Nominations are selected based on sets of criteria that aim to highlight the developmental significance and scale of impact, including activity level, community impact, creativity, organisational capability and artistic quality.