Minh Dung Vu

Minh Dung Vu

The Vietnamese-German artist Minh Dung Vu is a contemporary painter who rather sews his compositions instead of painting them. Due to minimal interventions on linen, abstract paintings by Vu are marked by subtlety, texture, and ingenuity. He explores the possibilities of painting, materiality, light versus shadow, and our perception of everything above. Dyed fabrics, most often silk, are sewn onto the canvas, creating an interplay of the visual characteristics of the material medium with the surface as its carrier. His background in graphic design feels very palpable in his artistic practice as he carefully searches for the exact spot for a specific piece of fabric to be placed on its surface, with the general image remaining perfectly in balance.

Born in 1995 in Vietnam, Minh Dung Vu currently resides and works in Leipzig, Germany. He studied graphic design at the Vietnam University of Fine Art before taking on painting at the University of Fine Arts in Essen and the Graphic Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig, Germany. In 2020, Vu received an award of recognition at the STRABAG Art Award in Vienna, Austria. The young emerging artist has exhibited in Germany and abroad at emerging and renowned galleries.

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Selected exhibitions:
2023, From East To West (solo exhibition), Gallery Academy of Fine Arts, Mainz, DE
2023, Trialogue: Aspects of Abstraction (group exhibition), Gallery Biesenbach, Cologne, DE
2023, Painting after Painting (group exhibition), Gallery Heike Strelow, Frankfurt, DE
2023, 4 Generations Painting after Painting (group exhibition), Gallery Heike Strelow, Frankfurt, DE
2022, Thank You For The Delay (group exhibition), CAI Gallery, Harelbeke, BE
2022, Minh Dung Vu / Jo Hummel (group exhibition), Gallery Benjamin Eck, Munich, DE
2021, Time on Flow (solo exhibition), STRABAG Kunstforum, Vienna, AT
2022, Position Berlin Art Fair (group exhibition), Gallery Biesenbach, Berlin, DE
2022, Diploma Exhibition (group exhibition), Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig, DE
2021 Abstract/3/Struktur (group exhibition), Gallery Biesenbach, Cologne, DE
2021, Season Black (group exhibition), Werkschauhalle, Spinnerei, Leipzig, DE
2020 Essential Reduction (group exhibition), Gallery Heike Strelow, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2020, STRABAG Art Award Internation Exhibition (group exhibition), STRABAG Kunstforum, Vienna, AT
2020, Carte Blanche (group exhibition), Gallery Biesenbach, Cologne, DE
2020, Project on #7 (group exhibition), Gallery Damdam Koreanisches Kulturzentrum, Berlin, DE
2019 Unsere Meinung (group exhibition), Urban Jungle, Leipzig, DE
2019, Degree Show (group exhibition), HBK, Essen, DE
2019, West – Östlicher Diwan (group exhibition), Gallery Noack, Wassenberg, DE
2019, Small World (group exhibition), Gallery Biesenbach, Cologne, DE
2019, Flow (group exhibition), Kupferdreherst, DE
2018 Essener Förderpreis (group exhibition), HBK, Essen, DE
2018, Contemporary Art Ruhr (group exhibition), Innovative Kunstmesse, Essen, DE
2018, Art of Nedschroef (group exhibition), Essen, DE
2017 Clear Prospect (group exhibition), Toscana Halle, Berlin, DE

Press & publications:
”8 Emerging Abstract Painters to Collect Now” in Contemporary Art Issue (2022)
STRABAG Artaward 25 Jahre Kunstpreis für Malerei und Zeichnung. Klagenfurt: Ritter Verlag , 2020.
”The Best Minimalist Painting: A Complete Overview” in Contemporary Art Issue (2020)
Clear Prospect. HBK: Essen Verlag (2017)

Awards & grants:
2020, STRABAG Art Award — Award of Recognition
2018, Deutschlandstipendium für begabte Studierende
Essener Förderpreisträger

Collections:
STRABAG Kunstforum, Vienna, AT

Thank You for the Delay: Ono En, Marco Reichert & Minh Dung Vu
Harelbeke, Belgium
April 16—July 24, 2022