Minh Dung Vu

(b. 1995, VN/DE)

BIOGRAPHY

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, the 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 on interplay of the visual characteristics of his 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.

Minh Dung Vu (b. 1995, Vietnam) resides and works in Leipzig, Germany. He studied graphic design at the Vietnam University of Fina Art, before taking on painting at the University of Fine Arts in Essen, and at 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.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2022, Thank You For The Delay (group exhibition), CAI Gallery, Harelbeke, BE
2022, Minh Dung Vu / Jo Hummel (duo exhibition), Gallery Benjamin Eck, Munich, DE
2021, Abstract/3/Struktur (group exhibition), Gallery Biesenbach, Cologne, DE
2021, Season Black (group exhibition), Werkschauhalle, Spinnerei, Leipzig, DE
2021, Time on Flow (solo exhibition), STRABAG Kunstforum, Vienna, AT
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

PUBLICATIONS

“The Best Minimalist Painting: A Complete Overview” in Contemporary Art Issue (2020)
STRABAG Art Ward: 25 Jahre Kunstpreis für Malerei und Zeichnung. Klagenfurt: Ritter Verlag, 2020
Clear Prospect. Berlin: Toscana-Halle, 2017