EXHIBITION

Giấc Mơ Của Những Giấc Mơ (Dream of Dreams)

20 - 23 MARCH 2026 | BOI TRAN GARDEN, VIETNAM

Bringing together eight Vietnamese artists, Giấc Mơ Của Những Giấc Mơ (Dream of Dreams) unfolds as a group exhibition at Boi Tran Garden, Hue, on view 20–23 March 2026, where painting is approached not as image alone but as a space of memory, perception and quiet transformation.

Rooted in the cultural landscape of Huế, a city shaped by introspection, continuity and poetic restraint, the exhibition revisits the notion of the dream as both intimate and collective. Across generations and practices, the artists engage with fragments of lived experience, where landscape, abstraction and the urban image are no longer fixed subjects but shifting states of awareness.

Working through diverse mediums and sensibilities, the artists embrace processes of accumulation, erasure and renewal. Layers of pigment are built, disrupted and reconstituted; surfaces become sites of sedimentation, where gestures and traces register the passage of time. In some works, light dissolves form into atmosphere; in others, material resists and retains, holding within it a quiet density of memory.

The exhibition traces how images persist and transform, moving between presence and recollection. Each work remains singular, yet together they form a subtle continuum, where correspondences emerge not through narrative but through resonance. Fragments of the visible world appear and recede, as though carried by an inner rhythm that exceeds the immediate moment.

Installed within the evolving environment of Boi Tran Garden, the works enter into a dialogue with nature, light and architectural space. Here, the exhibition is not imposed but allowed to unfold, attentive to its surroundings and to the sensibility of place. In this setting, painting becomes a mode of attention, a way of holding what is fleeting without fixing it.

As the exhibition suggests, dreams do not belong to a single time or voice. They move quietly across generations, returning, transforming and persisting, like images that remain long after they have passed.

Highlights

TRAN NGUYEN DAN (VIETNAM, B. 1941)

Say Rượu Chợ Phiên (Drunk at Village Market)

woodcut print on paper
80 x 100 cm. (31 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.)
Executed in 2024

Private Collection, Vietnam

TRAN VAN MANG (VIETNAM, B. 1949)

Nắng Qua Làng (Sunlit Village)

oil on canvas
42,5 × 28 cm (16 3/4 × 11 in.)
Painted in 2025

Price on request

PHAN THANH BINH (VIETNAM, B. 1959)

Bóng Thời Gian (Shadows of Time)

oil on canvas
70 × 70 cm (27 1/2 × 27 1/2 in.)
Painted in 2026

Price on request

TRAN ANH HUY (VIETNAM, B. 1980)

Đường Bạch Đằng Sau Cơn Mưa (Bach Dang Street After the Rain)

acrylic on canvas
70 × 80 cm (27 1/2 × 31 1/2 in.)
Painted in 2025

Price on request

NGUYEN VU LAN (VIETNAM, B. 1981)

Mảnh Ký Ức (Shards of Memory)

acrylic on canvas
100 × 150 cm (39 3/8 × 59 1/16 in.)
Painted in 2026

Price on request

HOANG DANG KHANH (VIETNAM, B. 1983)

Nhà Trên Đồi (The House upon the Hill)

acrylic on canvas
80 × 120 cm (31 1/2 × 47 1/4 in.)
Painted in 2022

Price on request

LE HUU LONG (VIETNAM, B. 1988)

Hương Ngô Đồng (Fragrance of the Paulownia)

oil on canvas
80 × 120 cm (31 1/2 × 47 1/4 in.)
Painted in 2025

Price on request

LE THUA HAI (VIETNAM, B. 1990)

Vết Tích 3 (Trace III)

mixed media on canvas
70 × 100 cm (27 1/2 × 39 3/8 in.)
Painted in 2026

Price on request

Featuring Works By

Tran Nguyen Dan
Tran Nguyen Dan (Vietnam, B. 1941)
Nguyen Vu Lan (Vietnam, B. 1981)
Nguyen Vu Lan (Vietnam, B. 1981)
Tran Van Mang
Tran Van Mang (Vietnam, B. 1949)
Hoang Dang Khanh (Vietnam, B. 1983)
Hoang Dang Khanh (Vietnam, B. 1983)
Phan Thanh Binh
Phan Thanh Binh (Vietnam, B. 1959)
Le Huu Long (Vietnam, B. 1988)
Le Huu Long (Vietnam, B. 1988)
Tran Anh Huy (Vietnam, B. 1980)
Tran Anh Huy (Vietnam, B. 1980)
Le Thua Hai (Vietnam, B. 1990)
Le Thua Hai (Vietnam, B. 1990)

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