Oma Totem, 2009
Objects from the artist’s grandmother Nguyen Thi Ty: 26″ Phillips television set, Gorenje washing machine, Bomann refrigerator, wooden crucifix, and personal entrance card for a casino. Image courtesy of Statens Museum for Kunst

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BUôN KOSIR”, 2008
Courtesy of Isabella Bortolozzi, photo: PRACHYA PHINTONG

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Pao Soft, 2010
Gold Leaf on Cardboard Box
55 x 99 cm

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JULY, IV, MDCCLXXVI
exhibition at Kunsthalle Fridericianium, 01 October – 31 December 2011

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Where the flavors are, 2010
Used cardboard, gold, 104 x 52 x 52 cm
Image courtesy of Statens Museum for Kunst

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Where the flavors are, 2010
Used cardboard, gold, 104 x 52 x 52 cm
Image courtesy of Statens Museum for Kunst

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Das Beste oder Nichts, 2010
The engine of the artist’s father Phung Vo’s Mercedes-Benz 190, 69 x 235 x 120 cm

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The engravings of the plant details reproduced, were chosen according to a list of flowers discovered by french missionary and botanist Jean-André Soulié in the regions of southern China and Tibet in the late 19th century, from the archive of the Musée National d‘Histoire Naturelle, Paris

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28.5.2010, 2010
Hotel bathrobes, slippers, chair
approx. 125 x 120 x 120 cm

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Last letter of Saint Theophane Venard to his father before he was decapitated copied by Phung Vo. Ink on paper, 29,6 x 21 cm

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All your deeds shall in water be writ, but this in marble, 2011
Courtesy Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin

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Chandelier from the former ballroom of the Hotel Majestic, Paris
Installation view at MoMA, 2011

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We The People, 2011
on view at Kunsthalle Fridericianium, 01 October – 31 December 2011

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We The People, 2011
on view at Kunsthalle Fridericianium, 01 October – 31 December 2011

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Ten things you need to know about DANH VO:

1. Born in Vietnam, he was raised in Denmark
2. But the fact that he is a Danish citizen is coincidental: the VOs family were picked up by a Danish tanker after fleeing Vietnam by boat four years after the war broke out
3. All of his projects primarily deal with what happens around him, his personal life, his desires, his identity, and what other people project onto him
4. Through objects based on the ready-made principle he highlights notions such as independence, citizenship, politics, history, memory, freedom and identity
5. His upcoming exhibition at Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel (Germany) will feature a replica of the Statue of Liberty
6. But the sculpture will be dissected into its individual parts and thus abstracted
7. The exhibition in Kassel also involves a widely branching narrative strand, which, starting from the concept of freedom, explores failed political, social and personal aims, takes up issues of self-determination and responsibility, and extends the definition of guilt and innocence
8. The show entitled JULY, IV, MDCCLXXVI will run from 01 October to 31 December, 2011
9. He lives and works in Berlin
10. his recent solo exhibitions include Hip Hip Hurrah, Statens Museum for Kunst, 2011 (Copenhagen); Autoerotic Asphyxiation, Artists Space, 2010 (New York); Here lies one, whose name is writ in water, Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, 2010 (Berlin); and Where the lions are, Kunsthalle Basel (2009)