#Opening reception: 18:00, Friday, 24.06.2026

#Opening hours:  13:00 – 18:00, Wednesday-Sunday, 25 July – 16 August 2026

#Location: Á Space, Alley 59 Ngô Gia Tự, Long Biên, Hà Nội

#Artist: Trương Công Tùng

#Curator: Linh Lê

#Organiser: Á Space

#With support from: Goethe Institut Hanoi, Articulate, Kaarem

#Artwork Production: Articulate

#Logistics & Exhibition Production: Bích Trâm (HCMC); Linh San (Hanoi)

#Graphic Design: Đức Cao

#Exhibition technician: Nguyễn Long Biên

#Photography: Dan Nguyen

#Biographies
Trương Công Tùng (b. 1986, based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) grew up in Đắk Lắk among various Indigenous communities in Vietnam’s Central Highlands. He graduated from the Ho Chi Minh Fine Arts University in 2010, majoring in lacquer painting. With a research focus spanning science, cosmology, philosophy, and environmental studies, he works across various media, including video, installation, painting, and found objects. His work reflects personal contemplations on the cultural and geopolitical transformations driven by modernization, as seen through the evolving ecology, beliefs, and mythology of his homeland. Trương is also a member of Art Labor (founded in 2012), a collective that bridges visual art and social/life sciences to produce alternative, informal knowledge through artistic and cultural activities in various public contexts and locales.
 
His work has also been featured in group exhibitions including “Dancing at the Edge of theWorld | Arnaldo Pomodoro Sculpture Prize – 8th edition”, ICA Milano, Milan, Italy (2026); 3rd Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, Saudi Arabia (2026), The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia (2024), “Cloud Chamber” Para Site, Hong Kong (2024); “The Spirits of Maritime Crossing”, organized by the Bangkok Art Biennale Foundation as a Collateral Event of the 60th Venice Biennale (2024). Other notable exhibitions include “Is it morning for you yet?” at the 58th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, USA (2022); “State of Absence…Words out there. A collaborative installation by plants, insects, earth, water, ash, air… and Trương Công Tùng,” at Manzi Art Space, Hanoi (2021); “The Sap Still Runs” at Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City (2019); “Between Fragmentation and Wholeness” at Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City (2018); “A Beast, a God, and a Line” at Para Site, Hong Kong (2018), and at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2018); Dhaka Art Summit (2018); “Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs” at Para Site, Hong Kong (2017) and at Kadist, San Francisco (2016); “Across the Forest” for Project Skylines with Flying People 3 at Nhà Sàn Collective, Hanoi (2016); and “Gestures and Archives of the Present, Genealogies of the Future” at the Taipei Biennial, Taiwan (2016).
 
Trương’s work has been collected by Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany; MUSEION, Italy; Kadist, Paris and San Francisco; Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland; The Nguyen Art Foundation, Vietnam; The Outpost Arts Organization, Vietnam; Post Vidai, Vietnam and Switzerland; Aura Contemporary Art Foundation, Japan, and others.
 
Linh Lê is an independent curator, writer, and researcher from Saigon, Vietnam. Her work investigates the changing landscapes and ecologies of Saigon and beyond under the pressures of modernisation and urbanisation, while exploring how post-socialist conditions in contemporary Vietnam have shaped both social reproduction and artistic production in recent decades. Since July 2024, she has been developing Đo Đạc, a site-responsive curatorial project examining the impact of forced resettlement in the Thủ Thiêm peninsula in Ho Chi Minh City. She is currently a member of the Curatorial Board at Á Space (Hanoi) and a research fellow for ArtsEquator’s Southeast Asian Arts Censorship Database. Previously, she has held curatorial positions at A. Farm International Residency (HCMC) and Galerie Quynh (HCMC).
 
From August 2026, Linh will pursue a Master’s in Curatorial Studies at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (NY), funded by the Fulbright Foreign Student Program.
 
This exhibition would not happen without the help of the artist’s family, the curator’s friends and dear colleagues at Á Space, especially miss Đặng Thuỳ Anh & beyond.
#Program

 

𝒪𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝒪𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝒞𝒽𝑒 𝒞𝒽𝒶 𝒞𝒽à 𝒰𝓎𝓉𝓉 𝒞𝒽𝒾𝓉 𝒞𝒽í𝓉𝓉…continues Trương Công Tùng’s experiments in materiality and sculptural form, as well as his inquiry into life in a post-human environment where reproduction is shaped by industrialisation and mass consumption. Sprawled across the exhibition space are various forms of existence, each under particular influences: the cell’s self-defence mechanism; a machine’s unwavering precision and tireless determination to construct an ideal environment for a birth that will never be birthed; betrayals masqueraded as invitations; and a life of slow, arduous death as the light of ideology has gone out. Beneath the cacophony of sounds and movements lies a place — simulated, yet teeming with life.
Is this a laboratory?
Or what remains of a long-gone civilisation?

 

Photos by Dan Nguyen