Bremen – Hanoi – Berlin

The Month of Art Practice (MAP) is an annual project organised by Heritage Art Space in Hanoi, Vietnam, serving as a platform for the exchange of artistic strategies, collective work and sustainable, intercultural dialogue. International artists come together with art school graduates to jointly develop artistic practices and thematic exhibitions. In cooperation with the University of the Arts Bremen, this format has been expanded to include a working group in Germany.

After three years, the collaborative project is now coming to an end and, with MAP 2025 – Arrival?, is focusing on the ambivalence of arrival. The eleven artists and two collectives address topics such as migration, language and translation, intercultural exchange and global transport. Performances, sound works, participatory actions, videos, and in situ sculptures question the supposed linearity of travel, the dead ends of freight transport, shared rituals and different memories, the loss of space-time coordinates, and the finality of a plastic form.

The results of the collaboration will be presented both in urban spaces and in two parallel exhibitions at Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten in Berlin and Long Bien Art Space in Hanoi, and finally documented in a publication.