ink/watercolor Nadege David biography Born in 1975 in Poissy, France, Nadege David received an MA in Political Philosophy from the University La Sorbonne in Paris and an MA in Contemporary Political Philosophy from theUniversity of Paris VIII. She was a lecturer in Sociology at the University Marne La Vallée between 1999 and 2005. “Drawing emerges to me as an expression of exchange between images, thoughts, and the languages of real and imagined worlds. These visual appropriations take root in the confrontation with the living, an enthusiasm for the aesthetic potency of certain Asian expressions, the precision of scientific drawing and the fascination for ink and its unpredictable flow.” David’s exhibitions include ‘Experience Sweet and Relaxing Dreams’ - Mai’s Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, ‘Of Reveries and Obsessions’ and ‘Soil-Less®’- Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City works This artist currently has no available work at Manzi works Fais-nous naître aux cieux du dedans, (Deliver Us Afresh to Skies) NADEGE DAVID 2019 36 x 51 cm ink on paper Enquire works Fais-nous naître aux cieux du dedans, (Deliver Us Afresh to Skies) NADEGE DAVID 2019 36 x 51 cm ink on paper Enquire related My Zootopia The sky is the same everywhere Catching Faces Faint Traces the sky, the sand, the lashing waves following the stone wall and we found an electric generator 6𝒗➡️¹/² The world as a draft The Fifth Cardinal Direction Spatium 47 Days, Sound-less in spaces of everyscape, at time without end </3 Hồi Sóng Birdsong on our pathway vol. 4 Entrusted Conjectures Hanoi 1985 - 2015, In The Years Of Forgetting Then and Now, Hanoi streets in transition 'Neo-Romanticism' More than Human #1 Arca Noa no-think The Four Subjects A saga of unrealised projects what's going on at Manzi

Hà Đàoan open studio by Ha Dao </3 - May 19, 2024 April 20, 2024 Hà Đào </3 - an open studio by Ha Dao , a photographer, writer and programme coordinator at Matca. </3 introduces works grounded in real tragedies learned through the press and social media. As media sensations, both stories feature a female outlaw as the protagonist. Amassing two uncommon fates, </3 deals with romance, heartbreak and crime in Vietnam's recent past. Entrenched are her ongoing inquiries into the creative and ethical implications of the camera, or more specifically, of appropriating stories not of one's own. __________________ Juggling with a variety of visual information (photographs, audio recordings, video footages, found and reconstructed materials), in this open studio, Hà proposes A NARRATIVE CONTEXT in which the pure function endowed in the photography almost proved futile: the large volume of visual statement is exposed, the voice of knowledge is clear and directly perceived without any filter, vivid details constitute the very raw material of ‘that-has-been’ yet at the same time can very well say nothing at all, as what represented can be immediately yielded to our perception but extremely elusive once one aims to process them to grasp the whole story. Such interesting narrative context, in turn, provokes questions about what was not allowed/impossible to be represented, about the "blind field "- parts of the scene outside the frame, and reiterates an often overlooked issue of our age which is unfailingly manipulated by mass consumption of information and social media: every photograph/recording only tells a part of the story. The pursuit of truth (in terms of informational aspect ) is impossible here, </3 , however, invites us - in a role of SPECTATOR to embark on a journey of exploring the 'sentimental’ reasons which interested Roland Barthes: 'I want to explore it not as a Question or a Theme but as a Wound: I see, I feel, hence I notice, I observe and I think. " (Camera Lucida) Artist's website: ha-dao.com ARTWORKS GALLERY All things considered (2019) This body of works is based on a murder case in Bình Dương in 2017. The so-called crime of passion made national headlines because of its grotesque yet compelling details. Out of jealousy and in selfdefense, a woman named Hàng Thị Hồng Diễm killed her husband and dismembered his body at their home in a factory worker dormitory. She recounted what happened on that fateful night during the four-hour trial. I was drawn to the discrepancy between the graphic description and deadpan photographic documentation in news reports: captioned as the crime scene, a seemingly innocent street corner, trash cans, and home interiors took on new meanings, providing evidence for the incident without witnesses. Adopting the role of a private investigator as if in a twisted game, I set out to capture observed and staged situations in various locations in Bình Dương. Combining audio excerpted from the trial, this work endeavors to recreate the incident based on the testimony of the woman/convict. ___________ If Heaven Awaits (2024) The video work portrays the Hải Phòng born and bred Dung Hà (Vũ Hoàng Dung) , a notorious gangster who used to monopolize gambling sites, adopt a masculine appearance and openly date women.Together with illegal activities, her sexuality was the subject of discussion and ridicule in the public eye. She was shot point-blank by her rival in the year 2000; the assassination shook Vietnam’s underworld. A fictional rendezvous between the long-gone Dung Hà and her old flame, rumored to be her one true love, plays out along the 2000s pop ballad 'Đêm Nay Anh Mơ Về Em (“Dreaming of You Tonight”). Adopting the aesthetic of music videos from this era, the work centers lesbian longing and butch/transmasculine expressions against the backdrop of heteronormative pop culture. Confronted by the distance of time and the impossibility of knowing, I turn to imagination as a strategy to construct stories about the price of love intertwined with battles for survival. Imagination also offers a certain freedom to explore and resurface fragments of memories that have been either lost or silenced. And yet while delving into intellectual musings and grappling with my own doubts about what images can and should do, I find myself returning to the question: How much could we know about the lives of others? OPENING NIGHT See more about artist(s)

Hà Đào biography Ha Dao is a photographer and artist based in Hanoi, Vietnam. Drawn by the quiet drama in everyday life, she started out making images that take an imaginative approach to the documentary genre, often through the lens of gender and sexuality. Her current practice incorporates multimedia and explores stories of love on the margin. Her works have been showcased at Higashikawa Bunka Gallery (Japan), Manzi Art Space (Vietnam), Xie Zilong Museum (China) and Objectifs Centre of Photography & Film (Singapore), and featured in the British Journal of Photography, Photoworks, Trans Asia Photography Journal, among others. She was granted the Seed Award by the Prince Clause Fund and the 38th Higashikawa Award in the Overseas photographer category in 2022. Ha co-runs Matca, an independent initiative dedicated to opening conversations around photography in Vietnam since 2017. Photo: Vũ Khôi Nguyên Webste: ha-dao.com works This artist currently has no available work at Manzi works Enquire related My Zootopia The sky is the same everywhere Catching Faces Faint Traces the sky, the sand, the lashing waves following the stone wall and we found an electric generator 6𝒗➡️¹/² The world as a draft The Fifth Cardinal Direction Spatium 47 Days, Sound-less in spaces of everyscape, at time without end </3 Hồi Sóng Birdsong on our pathway vol. 4 Entrusted Conjectures Hanoi 1985 - 2015, In The Years Of Forgetting Then and Now, Hanoi streets in transition 'Neo-Romanticism' More than Human #1 Arca Noa no-think The Four Subjects A saga of unrealised projects what's going on at Manzi

print Nguyễn Thị Thanh Tuyền biography Born in 1992 in Hanoi, Tuyen graduated from the National University of Art Education in 2015. As a recent art graduate, Tuyen is still trying to find her own artistic voice. Using woodcut on dzo paper, Tuyen focuses on exploring the topic of Hanoi, as a way to visualise the city through her own eyes and to keep the Hanoi memories of her youth from fading away. Tuyen has participated in some exhibitions and won the 1st prize in the ‘National Young Talent’ in 2012, the title ‘Young Talent’ of the Hanoi College of Art in 2013 and the consolation prize of the Hanoi Art Exhibition. works This artist currently has no available work at Manzi works St.Joseph's Cathedral, Hanoi NGUYỄN THỊ THANH TUYỀN 2013 70 x 50 cm woodcut print on dzo paper Enquire works St.Joseph's Cathedral, Hanoi NGUYỄN THỊ THANH TUYỀN 2013 70 x 50 cm woodcut print on dzo paper Enquire works St.Joseph's Cathedral, Hanoi NGUYỄN THỊ THANH TUYỀN 2013 70 x 50 cm woodcut print on dzo paper Enquire related My Zootopia The sky is the same everywhere Catching Faces Faint Traces the sky, the sand, the lashing waves following the stone wall and we found an electric generator 6𝒗➡️¹/² The world as a draft The Fifth Cardinal Direction Spatium 47 Days, Sound-less in spaces of everyscape, at time without end </3 Hồi Sóng Birdsong on our pathway vol. 4 Entrusted Conjectures Hanoi 1985 - 2015, In The Years Of Forgetting Then and Now, Hanoi streets in transition 'Neo-Romanticism' More than Human #1 Arca Noa no-think The Four Subjects A saga of unrealised projects what's going on at Manzi

A visual discussion Not All Dreams - September 26, 2016 September 9, 2016 Not All Dreams is a response to two exhibitions planned for August and September being cancelled for different reasons. Such seeming setbacks raise internal questions for manzi about the what, why and how of what we do, which can serve as points of departure for our programming. Not All Dreams is a visualisation of an ongoing conversation we have been having amongst ourselves and with collaborators about the different building blocks that comprise manzi and exploring what would happen if one or another is removed. INTO THIN AIR was the first such enquiry. Not All Dreams continues this internal evaluation made public. The former took the form of an exhibition in various public spaces, which originated from its curators asking “What can be done if there was no physical space to display art in?” The later takes as its focal point the perceived necessity of the realisation of every idea and explores this by way of a ‘visual discussion’, open to the public, and a focused internal conversation among curators and people who own and run art spaces. Both the public and internal aspects of Not All Dreams are invitations to ponder whether the dreams that ‘could’ be realised within the realm of manzi, are as potent as the ones that actually are. And it is an appeal to conceive of a dream without being weighed down by the constraints of having to realise it. Discussion starts: 7PM Friday 09 Sept Discussion pauses: Mon 26 Sept *The discussion is part of manzi’s art programme supported by CDEF of the Danish Embassy ARTWORKS GALLERY OPENING NIGHT See more about artist(s)

sketch Nguyễn Đình Việt biography works This artist currently has no available work at Manzi works A corner of a hostel NGUYỄN ĐÌNH VIỆT 2013 29.7 x 42 cm ruling pen on paper Enquire works Hue University in fall foliage NGUYỄN ĐÌNH VIỆT 2015 29.7 x 42 cm ruling pen on paper Enquire related My Zootopia The sky is the same everywhere Catching Faces Faint Traces the sky, the sand, the lashing waves following the stone wall and we found an electric generator 6𝒗➡️¹/² The world as a draft The Fifth Cardinal Direction Spatium 47 Days, Sound-less in spaces of everyscape, at time without end </3 Hồi Sóng Birdsong on our pathway vol. 4 Entrusted Conjectures Hanoi 1985 - 2015, In The Years Of Forgetting Then and Now, Hanoi streets in transition 'Neo-Romanticism' More than Human #1 Arca Noa no-think The Four Subjects A saga of unrealised projects what's going on at Manzi

Đỗ Tuấn AnhA solo exhibition by ĐỖ TUẤN ANH 29.05 - 20.06.2015 Stories told in an Oriental way - June 20, 2015 May 29, 2015 Đỗ Tuấn Anh The exhibition features Tuan Anh’s latest surreal paintings which were created in 2015, two years after his settlement in Solingen, a small city in Germany. In Tuan Anh’s previous works, the countryside has been the spiritual foundation which forms the basis of his practice, dominating his perception and approach to art-making. Having to relocate to Germany in 2013 means that the artist has been uprooted from his source of inspiration, leaving him in an in-between state, neither here nor there. And this uncertainty is reflected strongly in his solo show at Manzi. Combining contradictory conditions of dream and reality, in this series of work, Do Tuan Anh painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision and created strange creatures with everyday objects. By showing his quirky side, pairing up people and animals with wit and irony, the artist is telling a surrealist tale in an oriental way. ARTWORKS GALLERY OPENING NIGHT See more about artist(s)

print Romain Orfeuvre biography Romain is a young architect who graduated in 2007 from the National Architecture School of Toulouse in France. He is specialised in urban and cultural heritage and sustainable development. In 2004, he was commissioned by the city of Toulouse to support the local authorities of Hanoi for the protection of the urban heritage of the 36 guilds streets of Hanoi through surveys, regulations, restoration of houses, temples, pagodas, streets and the building of a heritage centre. Especially fond of Hanoi and its miscellaneous heritage - both tangible and intangible, present nd past - Romain aims to present another view of this mostly hidden heritage through his works. works This artist currently has no available work at Manzi works Hanoi Old Quarter - 36 old streets & guilds - Citadel East Gate neighborhood 19th century ROMAIN ORFEUVRE 2014 80 x 60 cm screen printing on dzo paper Enquire works Cau Go Bridge Landscape, 19th Century ROMAIN ORFEUVRE 2014 80 x 60 cm screen printing on dzo paper Enquire related My Zootopia The sky is the same everywhere Catching Faces Faint Traces the sky, the sand, the lashing waves following the stone wall and we found an electric generator 6𝒗➡️¹/² The world as a draft The Fifth Cardinal Direction Spatium 47 Days, Sound-less in spaces of everyscape, at time without end </3 Hồi Sóng Birdsong on our pathway vol. 4 Entrusted Conjectures Hanoi 1985 - 2015, In The Years Of Forgetting Then and Now, Hanoi streets in transition 'Neo-Romanticism' More than Human #1 Arca Noa no-think The Four Subjects A saga of unrealised projects what's going on at Manzi

Nguyễn Đức Đạt biography Born in 1979 in Pleiku, Vietnam, Nguyen Duc Dat studied Fine Art at the University of Florida. He is a member of Sao La collective and a co-founder of the art bar Cu Ru in Ho Chi Minh City and Dalat. He has curated for Nha San Collective and served as art director of Nha San in Hanoi. His works have been shown in a number of exhibitions including documenta 15 , Kassel, Germany; NGUCHONOBAY #2: 2,99999 REALMS, 20/20 Gallery, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, USA; Salt of the Jungle, Korea Foundation Gallery, Seoul, South Korea and CUC Gallery, Vietnamese Women's Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam; No Cai Bum: The Dreaming Dalat, Dalat; No Cai Bum , Hue; Skylines With Flying People 4, Nha San Collective, Hanoi; and Out of Nowhere, Sao La, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Nguyen has also curated and organized many community art projects such as March: Art Walk and Art Walk II, numerous venues, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; dia/phuong ~ local-liti, Sao La, Dia Projects, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; NGUCHONOBAY , Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; and the zine Art and Law. works This artist currently has no available work at Manzi works Enquire related My Zootopia The sky is the same everywhere Catching Faces Faint Traces the sky, the sand, the lashing waves following the stone wall and we found an electric generator 6𝒗➡️¹/² The world as a draft The Fifth Cardinal Direction Spatium 47 Days, Sound-less in spaces of everyscape, at time without end </3 Hồi Sóng Birdsong on our pathway vol. 4 Entrusted Conjectures Hanoi 1985 - 2015, In The Years Of Forgetting Then and Now, Hanoi streets in transition 'Neo-Romanticism' More than Human #1 Arca Noa no-think The Four Subjects A saga of unrealised projects what's going on at Manzi

oil/acrylic Nguyễn Quang Huy biography Born in 1971 in Ha Tay, Huy completed his studies at the Vietnam University of Fine Arts in 1996. He is considered one of the pioneers of Vietnamese experimental and contemporary art. Well-known for his blue, large-scale portraits of women and video installations which are dedicated to the life of the working-class, Huy recently took a more abstract path. The images in his paintings now seem to oscillate between shattered dreams while appearing intriguing and magnificent at the same time. Huy has had solo exhibitions in Vietnam, Germany, France, and Singapore, and participated in numerous international group exhibitions in Japan, the US, Finland, Thailand, China, Australia, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. His works are included in the permanent collection of the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan; the World Bank Art Program, and the Post Vidai Collection of Contemporary Vietnamese Art. works This artist currently has no available work at Manzi works Mountainous region #2 NGUYỄN QUANG HUY 2016 oil on canvas Enquire works Mountainous region #1 NGUYỄN QUANG HUY 2016 oil on canvas Enquire related My Zootopia The sky is the same everywhere Catching Faces Faint Traces the sky, the sand, the lashing waves following the stone wall and we found an electric generator 6𝒗➡️¹/² The world as a draft The Fifth Cardinal Direction Spatium 47 Days, Sound-less in spaces of everyscape, at time without end </3 Hồi Sóng Birdsong on our pathway vol. 4 Entrusted Conjectures Hanoi 1985 - 2015, In The Years Of Forgetting Then and Now, Hanoi streets in transition 'Neo-Romanticism' More than Human #1 Arca Noa no-think The Four Subjects A saga of unrealised projects what's going on at Manzi

silk Nguyễn Thị Hồng Khanh biography Born in 1996, graduated in 2019 from Ho Chi Minh University of Fine Arts (Silk painting major), Nguyen Thi Hong Khanh is one of outstanding young talent among Southern emerging artists. While Intensely lyrical in classical figurative style of Eastern silk painting, Hong Khanh’s artworks have an air of contemporary illustration, with a playful touch of manga & anime art influences. The characters in her paintings, mostly either young ladies or small children, are often placed into a vague fictional surroundings with a glimpse of the familiar boring urban landscapes. These human figures, though seemingly allien like the outsiders yet not lonely, are presented in the most pure configuration, as they are trying to interact with few remained elements of the nature world such as a small honeybee, beetles, a fragile butterfly, blooming flowers, and the sunlight, the dew… Skillful handling the silk material, exquisite taste of vivid color scheme, subtle feminine aesthetic senses, Hong Khanh has been building her own path of art practice, worth expecting in the future. works This artist currently has no available work at Manzi works S i l e n c e NGUYỄN THỊ HỒNG KHANH 2023 65 x 100 cm watercolor on silk Enquire works Still NGUYỄN THỊ HỒNG KHANH 2023 65 x 80 cm watercolor on silk Enquire related My Zootopia The sky is the same everywhere Catching Faces Faint Traces the sky, the sand, the lashing waves following the stone wall and we found an electric generator 6𝒗➡️¹/² The world as a draft The Fifth Cardinal Direction Spatium 47 Days, Sound-less in spaces of everyscape, at time without end </3 Hồi Sóng Birdsong on our pathway vol. 4 Entrusted Conjectures Hanoi 1985 - 2015, In The Years Of Forgetting Then and Now, Hanoi streets in transition 'Neo-Romanticism' More than Human #1 Arca Noa no-think The Four Subjects A saga of unrealised projects what's going on at Manzi My Zootopia | Zootopia của tôi See more December 28, 2025 Bầu trời ở đâu cũng giống nhau | The sky is the same everywhere See more November 8, 2025 Tình See more October 5, 2025 Tình See more October 4, 2025 Bắt mặt | Catching Faces See more October 4, 2025 Tình See more October 3, 2025 Artist Talk vs Nguyễn Thị Thanh Mai See more September 27, 2025 Art Tour | Những Vệt Mờ / Faint Traces See more September 10, 2025 Những Vệt Mờ | Faint Traces See more September 6, 2025 Between the Strings See more August 5, 2025

Nguyễn Trần NamA solo exhibition by NGUYỄN TRẦN NAM 06.10 - 31.10.2017 ...undone... - October 31, 2017 October 6, 2017 Nguyễn Trần Nam The adjective 'undone' contains a host of possible meanings - distraught, fallen apart, unfinished, unaccomplished, ruined, destroyed – encompassing the uncanny nature of Nguyen Tran Nam’s most recent series of work. The lacquer paintings mark a return to a medium from Nam’s formal training at the Vietnam University of Fine Arts (graduated 2003) after a lengthy stint producing a diverse body of multimedia work as one of Hanoi’s second-wave of contemporary artists, yet his aesthetic and subjects continue in the vein of his more experimental work. Dark and heavy, the series’ brutal beauty reveals the artist’s concern with both the dead and the living and portrays his obsession with the ruins of landscapes and life. Forming an imaginary realm unbound by truth, time or place, these are images of chases, riots, crushed faces prostrating on the streets, someone’s shadow just gliding through the darkness on the other side of a door. The depictions seem to pass by without reason, no beginning or ending, no explanation. And we humans are left to doubtfully wonder about moments of insecurity in the past, and realise that they are not individual points in time but a permanent presence, that we have been and will always be stuck in. For Nguyen Tran Nam, drawing is a kind of journaling process, during which he unconsciously chronicles the ambiguity drifting in his mind as a result of stories he has heard, experiences he has been through and the character of life as well as philosophical metaphors, a general state of absurdity and obsessions with literature and poetry or myths. And whether these fragments of his mind were recorded accidentally or noted down intentionally, in the end they come together to turn into an untitled disorder that resembles an everlasting instant without beginning or ending *This is part of Manzi’s art programme supported by CDEF of the Danish Embassy in Vietnam. ARTWORKS GALLERY THE HAMMER SPEAKS (by Nietzsche) Translation by Water Kaufmann THE VIKING PRESS, 1951. “Why so hard?” the kitchen coal once said to the diamond. “After all, are we not close kin?” Why so soft? O my brothers, thus I ask you: are you not after all my brothers? Why so soft, so pliant and yielding? Why is there so much denial, self-denial, in your hearts? So little destiny in your eyes? And if you do not want to be destinies and inexorable ones, how can you one day [2] triumpth with me? And if your hardness does not wish to flash and cut and cut through, how can you one day create with me? For all creators are hard. And it must seem blessedness to you to impress your hand on millennia as on wax, Blessedness to write on the will of millennia as on bronze – harder than bronze, nobler than bronze. Only the noblest is altogether hard. This new tablet, O my brothers, I place over you: become hard! OPENING NIGHT See more about artist(s)