Danh Vo
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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Installation view of Where the Lions Are at Kunsthalle Basel, 2009
Photo by SERGE HASENBÖHLER. 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:
- Born in Vietnam, he was raised in Denmark
- 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
- 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
- Through objects based on the ready-made principle he highlights notions such as independence, citizenship, politics, history, memory, freedom and identity
- His upcoming exhibition at Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel (Germany) will feature a replica of the Statue of Liberty
- But the sculpture will be dissected into its individual parts and thus abstracted
- 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
- The show entitled JULY, IV, MDCCLXXVI will run from 01 October to 31 December, 2011
- He lives and works in Berlin
- 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)
[…] and for his first major institutional solo event in Austria, the Danish-Vietnamese artist once again refracts the biographical history of the VÕ family’s emigration from Vietnam and an […]
[…] and for his first major institutional solo event in Austria, the Danish-Vietnamese artist once again refracts the biographical history of the VÕ family’s emigration from Vietnam and an […]