About Us

About Us

Hanoi Grapevine team strongly believes that arts, music, and all other cultural forms of expression have the power to change the world by empowering humane feelings, spurring thinking, engagement and even action towards creating a better society for all mankind.

Hanoi Grapevine is a social enterprise known as the pioneering independent online platform promoting arts and culture in Vietnam. In addition to connecting local artists, art spaces and high-quality event organisers with their audience, Hanoi Grapevine organises educational, knowledge-sharing events and programmes which aim to form an effective support system for art and cultural activities. Hanoi Grapevine’s office and its Đỡ Đần Library are located at 32 Hao Nam, Dong Da, Hanoi.

OUR SERVICES

Hanoi Grapevine provides bilingual content in English and Vietnamese of high-quality art and culture events in the contemporary cultural landscape in Vietnam, together with art reviews, artist interviews, news of Vietnamese artists’ activities overseas, exhibition photos and introduction of indie films, as well as open calls for creative practitioners. We also provide addresses of cultural institutes and art spaces as well as artists’ websites and contacts.

We are expanding our services for art and culture people including public relations, media consultancy as well as research and education in the art and culture sector.

OUR HISTORY

Hanoi Grapevine was founded in 2007 as a one-man blog on WordPress by Canadian artist Brian Ring. The name comes from an old saying in English – “I heard it through the grapevine” – which indicates that information is received informally, as that was how Brian knew of what was happening in the contemporary art scene in Hanoi back then.

Today, Hanoi Grapevine is not only a reputable website and a reliable news source for tens of thousands of people with official information received from the event organisers, but also a platform for connections between artists, organisers and spaces to co-host workshops, exhibitions, knowledge-sharing and capacity-building sessions in the field of art, culture and creativity.

OUR VISION

Hanoi Grapevine aims to become the number-one virtual information hub for artists, creative practitioners and anyone interested in and wants to learn about arts and culture in Vietnam. “Think Art-Culture-Vietnam? Think Grapevine!”

OUR MISSION

Hanoi Grapevine’s ongoing mission since its inception has always been to promote arts and culture in Vietnam and support independent artists and artistic movements. With this core purpose, Hanoi Grapevine also introduces new art forms, as well as formats that develop support systems for art practitioners to various audiences, thereby encouraging critical and creative thinking.

OUR TEAM

Trương Uyên Ly – Director

Journalist Trương Uyên Ly has conducted independent research on Vietnam’s creative hubs since 2014 until now. She is the Director of Hanoigrapevine.com – a pioneering, bilingual (English-Vietnamese) online creative hub on contemporary art and cultural activities since 2017. She was a reporter for arts and culture at Tuoi Tre newspaper from 2001 to 2009 and a co-judge for the Denmark-Vietnam Cultural Development and Exchange Fund (2008-2013).

Nguyễn Tú Hằng – Managing Partner

Nguyễn Tú Hằng holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Management from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (Japan) and a Master’s degree in International Business and East Asia Studies from Sogang University (South Korea). From 2019 until now, Nguyễn Tú Hằng is a manager and coordinator at Hanoi Grapevine, engaging in communication consulting and research with different roles in various cultural projects. In 2020-2023, Hằng was the Curator of Education at Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (VCCA). In 2023, Hằng co-founded ddur.production, an open collective providing special assistance for exhibition projects.

Nguyễn Bích Đào – Administrator

Nguyễn Bích Đào holds a Master 1 degree in Events, Mediation of Arts and Sciences from the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and a Master 2 degree in Digital and Editorial Communication from the University of Toulon, France. Đào has experience in organising art exhibitions and coordinating art and cultural projects through various positions at Work Room Four, Gốc Creation, Studio Phạm Minh Hiếu and Hanoi Grapevine.

Đan – Web Editor / Photographer

Đan practices photography and is the web editor at Hanoigrapevine.com. Since the end of 2014, Đan has been part of the project Humans of Hanoi – which focuses on human stories of Hanoi culture told from personal perspectives. Through photography practices, Đan works as a collaborator in various art and creative hubs’ projects while also providing support to local design brands such as Collective Sonson, Đồ Chơi chữ, Khê, Phong The O Room, Miilk,… In 2023, Đan participated in the photography exhibition “Khi ta đã từng” (When I was when we were) alongside artist Hoàng Nguyễn, with Nguyễn Hải Nam as the curator.

Đoan Nguyễn – Accountant

CONTACT

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INTRODUCTION VIDEO

Video: Video – Almaz Media – Vincent Baumont and Isaak Lê
Music: Slo-Lo