Carré Arrondi
Feet, hands, water
Directed by Hằng Hằng.
Performed by Maya De Vulpillières and Hoàng Kim Tố Uyên.
Nail salons, emblematic of the Vietnamese diaspora, form an essential niche market, unveiling stories that are both intimate and collective. Carré arrondi is a performance that navigates between reality and dreams, evoking the fragmented memories of Vietnamese-origin nail technicians.
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Unforgotten land
Hair, faux leather fabric
Dimensions variable
2025
The image of two children waiting for their mother. One in a hair salon—hair falling down, piling and crawling, a shrouding landscape—her mother always before her. The other outside a bombed house, the scorched landscape taking shape—her mother never returns.
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Bố không biết mình đang ở đâu
Jacquard Weaving, Alluminium sculpting
2023
The audience is drawn into a setting that Hang calls a “garden.” She invites us into a space bathed in blue and silver, filled with strange elements and the earthy scent of rain-soaked soil. Three people, dressed entirely in blue, take turns reciting a poem in Vietnamese, English, and French. Then, Hang slowly pulls numerous drawings, photos, and books from a suitcase. It speaks of untranslatable meanings, of forms that resist explanation.
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Thị
100 years, 3 days, 30 minutes
30’
2025
The film is the last part of “Thị,” a long-term project exploring family history centered around a childhood home in northern Hanoi.
One day, the father decided to demolish the house following the advice of a feng shui consultant. As fragments fall, random conversations emerge, uncovering the connections between father, daughter, and their ancestor.
A century of the house's existence, three days of demolition, and thirty minutes of film. When the house disappears, what will remain of their presence?
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Thị - Early summer
Exhibition card
Kunstmuseum Basel
1975
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Thị - A silent woman
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Exhibition card
Moderne Kunst Dietmar Werle, Köln
1986
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Exhibition card
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
1998
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Exhibition card
Galleria Sperone Torino, Gennaio
1972
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Exhibition card
Yvon Lambert Paris
1973
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Hằng Hằng
A visual artist, performance maker, and scenographer working between Vietnam and Europe, she reexamines micro-histories and family narratives through sensual memories. Navigating the terrain between documentary and imagined landscapes, she creates immersive spaces where reality, dreams, and magic converge.
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Dogma Prize 2025
Ho Chi Minh City, VietnamGroup exhibition
December 2025
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LKK & RKK Trondheim, Norway
Interdisciplinary Residency
November - December 2025[Upcomming..]
Laboratoire Aubervilliers
Aubervillier, France
Performance23 - 24 October 2025
Organised by Common Stories
2025
Identity constructions are based on and strengthened by stories and experiences. Stories tell who we are and who we strive to become, they question and challenge the way we see ourselves and the others. We, 6 performing art organizations based in Europe, believe that a diversity of stories and a multiplicity of perspectives will allow for a more accurate and fair understanding of the political, cultural and social challenges we have to face in order to create common grounds in European societies in transformation.
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Galerie BAO
Paris, France
Solo exhibition
September - October 2025
The reason is a flower
Curated by Lê Thiên Bảo
Galerie Bao is pleased to announce The Reason Is a Dog. The Reason Is a Flower., the first solo exhibition of Vietnamese artist Hằng Hằng, opening to the public on 12 September 2025 as the inaugural show of the gallery’s new location.
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Setouchi Triennale 2025
Kagawa Museum, Takamatsu, Japan6—30 August 2025
Group exhibition
Curated by Lê Thuận Uyên
Unfolding within the Kagawa Prefecture Museum, A Choreography in Resonance is a contemporary art exhibition presented as part of the Summer Session of the Setouchi Triennale 2025. The exhibition features newly commissioned artworks - in dialogue with the spatial design of the museum as well as with existing representation of Vietnamese art - by four contemporary Vietnamese artists: Trương Quế Chi, Hằng Hằng, Đỗ Trọng Quý, and Lê Xuân Tiến.
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Kunstencentrum BUDAKortrijk, Belgium
Performance Residency
July 2025Directed performance by Hằng Hằng
Collaboration with Maya de Vulpillières
Nail salons, emblematic of the Vietnamese diaspora, form an essential niche market, unveiling stories that are both intimate and collective. Carré arrondi is a performance that navigates between reality and dreams, evoking the fragmented memories of Vietnamese-origin nail technicians.
During the residency at BUDA, Hằng Hằng focuses on dramaturgy and direction, exploring repetition in collaboration with performer Maya de Vulpillières.
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Atelier MédicisParis, France
Residency with children “ Création en cours 9”
January - June 2025Hằng Hằng continues her work of reexamining micro-history and family archives by sharing her experiences with children at the Macdonald Public Comprehensive School. Through a multidisciplinary approach, she invites the children to participate in sensory and performative workshops where the hand can reflect and the nose can perceive space, while encouraging them to express their thoughts, memories, and to evoke their family history.
These stories reveal our identity while shedding light on and challenging our perception of ourselves and others. The plurality of narratives and perspectives helps us better understand political, social, and cultural issues.
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Studio ARTiculateHanoi, Vietnam
Exhibition design
March 2025Curated by Lê Thuận Uyên
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A-Turma Porto, Portugal
Performance Residency
October - November 20241972
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Common Stories Bobigny, Stockholm, Lisbon, Egypt
Performance Residency
September - November 2023Becomming one of the eight COMMONLAB artists, Hằng Hằng met new people, new ideas, new approaches, worked and shared collectively, as a part of four residency modules in Bobigny(MC93), Stockholm(Riksteatern), Cairo(D-CAF) and Lisbon(Alkantara). COMMONLAB 2023 ended on November 18 with an Open Studio presentation at Espaço Alkantara in Lisbon.
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