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{{Infobox artist
{{Infobox artist
| name = Danh Võ
| name = Danh Võ
| birth_place = [[Bà Rịa]], Vietnam
| birth_place = [[Vũng Tàu|City of Vũng Tàu]], [[Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province]], Vietnam
| birth_name =
| birth_name = Võ Trung Kỳ Danh
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|08|05|}}
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|08|05|}}
| image = Danh Vo (cropped).jpg
| image = Danh Vo (cropped).jpg
| nationality = [[Denmark|Danish]]
| nationality = Danish
| alma_mater = [[Städelschule]]
| alma_mater = [[Städelschule]]
| caption = Võ in August of 2018
| caption = Võ in 2018
}}
}}
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'''Danh Võ''' (born '''{{lang|vi|Võ Trung Kỳ Danh}}''', August 5, 1975)<ref>{{cite web|first=Nora A. |last=Taylor |url=https://www.academia.edu/35844776/Is_Danh_Vo_a_Vietnamese_Artist_pdf |title=Is Danh Vo a Vietnamese Artist? |accessdate=2021-01-12}}</ref> is a contemporary artist of Vietnamese descent.<ref name="artic1">{{cite web|url=http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/danh-vo-we-people-detail-2010-2013 |title=Danh Vo: We The People (detail), 2010–2013 |publisher=The Art Institute of Chicago |date= |accessdate=2013-08-23}}</ref> He lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City.<ref name="NewYorkerProfile" /><ref name="articles.latimes.com">David Ng (November 1, 2012), [http://articles.latimes.com/2012/nov/01/entertainment/la-et-cm-artist-danh-vo-hugo-boss-prize-guggenheim-20121101 Danh Vo wins 2012 Hugo Boss Prize from Guggenheim Foundation] ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''.</ref>


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==Early life==
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'''Danh Võ''' Danh Võ (Võ Trung Kỳ Danh, born 1975)<ref>{{cite web||first=Nora A. |last=Taylor |url=https://www.academia.edu/35844776/Is_Danh_Vo_a_Vietnamese_Artist_pdf |title=Is Danh Vo a Vietnamese Artist? |accessdate=2021-01-12}}</ref> is a Vietnamese-Danish contemporary artist.<ref name="artic1">{{cite web|url=http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/danh-vo-we-people-detail-2010-2013 |title=Danh Vo: We The People (detail), 2010–2013 |publisher=The Art Institute of Chicago |date= |accessdate=2013-08-23}}</ref> He lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City.<ref name="NewYorkerProfile" /><ref name="articles.latimes.com">David Ng (November 1, 2012), [http://articles.latimes.com/2012/nov/01/entertainment/la-et-cm-artist-danh-vo-hugo-boss-prize-guggenheim-20121101 Danh Vo wins 2012 Hugo Boss Prize from Guggenheim Foundation] ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''.</ref>
Danh Võ was born in [[Vũng Tàu]], Vietnam.<ref>{{cite web|first=Nora A. |last=Taylor |url=http://diacritics.org/2012/vietnam-in-bits-and-pieces-danh-vo-and-his-fragmented-biography |title=Vietnam in Bits and Pieces: Danh Vo and His Fragmented Biography |publisher=diaCRITICS |date=December 26, 2012}}</ref><ref name="NewYorkerProfile">[[Calvin Tomkins|Tomkins, Calvin]]

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(January&nbsp;29, 2018). "[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/29/the-artist-questioning-authorship The Artist Questioning Authorship]". ''[[The New Yorker]]''. newyorker.com. Retrieved 2018-02-10.</ref><ref>[http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/past/exhibit/5488 The Hugo Boss Prize 2012: Danh Vo] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141206094400/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/past/exhibit/5488 |date=2014-12-06 }} [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]], New York.</ref> After the [[Communist Party of Vietnam|Communists]]' victory and the [[fall of Saigon]], the Võ family and 20,000 other South Vietnamese were brought in 1975 to the island of [[Phú Quốc]].<ref name="Danh Vo: In Memory of Forgetting">Daniel Völzke (December 11, 2009), [http://www.db-artmag.com/en/57/feature/danh-vo-in-memory-of-forgetting/ Danh Vo: In Memory of Forgetting] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124071337/http://www.db-artmag.com/en/57/feature/danh-vo-in-memory-of-forgetting/ |date=2018-01-24 }} ''DB ArtMag''.</ref> in 1979, when he was 4 years old, his family fled South Vietnam in a homemade boat and was rescued at sea by a freighter belonging to the Danish [[Maersk]] shipping company.<ref name="NewYorkerProfile"/><ref>[http://www.renaissancesociety.org/site/Exhibitions/Intro.Danh-Vo.629.html Danh Vo: Uterus, September 23 – December 16, 2012] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004221059/http://www.renaissancesociety.org/site/Exhibitions/Intro.Danh-Vo.629.html |date=October 4, 2013 }} [[Renaissance Society]], Chicago.</ref> The family members settled in Denmark.<ref name="NewYorkerProfile"/> Their assimilation into European culture and the events that led up to their flight from Vietnam are reflected in Võ's art, which juxtaposes the historical and the personal.<ref>Carol Vogel (November 1, 2012), [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/arts/design/danh-vo-wins-hugo-boss-prize.html Native of Vietnam Wins Hugo Boss Prize] ''The New York Times''.</ref> When Danh Võ and his family were registered by the Danish authorities, the family name Võ was placed last. His middle name, Trung Kỳ, was recorded as his first name.
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==Early life and education==
Danh Võ (pronounced ''yon voh'')<ref name="Awash in a Cultural Deluge">[[Roberta Smith|Smith, Roberta]] (March 14, 2013). "[https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/arts/design/the-hugo-boss-prize-2012-danh-vo-works-at-the-guggenheim.html Awash in a Cultural Deluge]". ''[[The New York Times]]''.</ref> was born in [[Bà Rịa]], Vietnam in August 1975.<ref name="NewYorkerProfile">[[Calvin Tomkins|Tomkins, Calvin]]
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(January&nbsp;29, 2018). "[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/29/the-artist-questioning-authorship The Artist Questioning Authorship]". ''[[The New Yorker]]''. newyorker.com. Retrieved 2018-02-10.</ref><ref>[http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/past/exhibit/5488 The Hugo Boss Prize 2012: Danh Vo] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141206094400/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/past/exhibit/5488 |date=2014-12-06 }} [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]], New York.</ref> After the [[Communist Party of Vietnam|Communists]]' victory and the [[fall of Saigon]], the Võ family and 20,000 other South Vietnamese were brought in 1975 to the island of [[Phú Quốc]].<ref name="Danh Vo: In Memory of Forgetting">Daniel Völzke (December 11, 2009), [http://www.db-artmag.com/en/57/feature/danh-vo-in-memory-of-forgetting/ Danh Vo: In Memory of Forgetting] ''DB ArtMag''.</ref> in 1979, when he was 4 years old, his family fled South Vietnam in a homemade boat and was rescued at sea by a freighter belonging to the Danish [[Maersk]] shipping company.<ref name="NewYorkerProfile"/><ref>[http://www.renaissancesociety.org/site/Exhibitions/Intro.Danh-Vo.629.html Danh Vo: Uterus, September 23 – December 16, 2012] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004221059/http://www.renaissancesociety.org/site/Exhibitions/Intro.Danh-Vo.629.html |date=October 4, 2013 }} [[Renaissance Society]], Chicago.</ref> The family members settled in Denmark.<ref name="NewYorkerProfile"/> Their assimilation into European culture and the events that led up to their flight from Vietnam are reflected in Võ's art, which juxtaposes the historical and the personal.<ref>Carol Vogel (November 1, 2012), [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/arts/design/danh-vo-wins-hugo-boss-prize.html Native of Vietnam Wins Hugo Boss Prize] ''The New York Times''.</ref> When Danh Võ and his family were registered by the Danish authorities, the family name Võ was placed last. His middle name, Trung, was recorded as his first name.


Võ moved to Berlin in 2005, after finishing school at [[Städelschule]] in [[Frankfurt]], where he went after quitting painting at the [[Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts]] in [[Copenhagen]].<ref name="nytimes.com">Hilarie M. Sheets (September 20, 2012), [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/arts/design/danh-vos-we-the-people-project-in-chicago.html Lady Liberty, Inspiring Even in Pieces] ''The New York Times''.</ref> He had residencies at the Villa Aurora in [[Los Angeles]] (2006)<ref name="articles.latimes.com"/> and at [[Kadist Art Foundation]] in [[Paris]] (2009).<ref>[http://kadist.org/en/programs/all/1354 Residencies: Danh Vo] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131118054606/http://www.kadist.org/en/programs/all/1354 |date=2013-11-18 }} Kadist Art Foundation, Paris.</ref> He lives in both Berlin and Mexico City.<ref name="NewYorkerProfile"/>
Võ moved to Berlin in 2005, after finishing school at [[Städelschule]] in [[Frankfurt]], where he went after quitting painting at the [[Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts]] in [[Copenhagen]].<ref name="nytimes.com">Hilarie M. Sheets (September 20, 2012), [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/arts/design/danh-vos-we-the-people-project-in-chicago.html Lady Liberty, Inspiring Even in Pieces] ''The New York Times''.</ref> He had residencies at the Villa Aurora in [[Los Angeles]] (2006)<ref name="articles.latimes.com"/> and at [[Kadist Art Foundation]] in [[Paris]] (2009).<ref>[http://kadist.org/en/programs/all/1354 Residencies: Danh Vo] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131118054606/http://www.kadist.org/en/programs/all/1354 |date=2013-11-18 }} Kadist Art Foundation, Paris.</ref> He lives in both Berlin and Mexico City.<ref name="NewYorkerProfile"/>
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Võ's [[Installation art|installations]], which are composed of documents, photos and appropriations of works of other artists, often address the issues of identity and belonging.<ref name="Danh Vo: In Memory of Forgetting"/>
Võ's [[Installation art|installations]], which are composed of documents, photos and appropriations of works of other artists, often address the issues of identity and belonging.<ref name="Danh Vo: In Memory of Forgetting"/>
The conceptual work ''Vo Rosasco Rasmussen'' (2002–) involves the artist's marriage to and immediate divorce from a growing list of important people in his life;<ref name="Danh Vo">"[https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/danh-vo Danh Vo]". [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]], New York. guggenheim.org. Retrieved 2018-02-09.</ref> after each marriage, Võ retains the last name of his former spouse. His official name is now Trung Ky Danh Vo Rosasco Rasmussen.<ref>[http://www.smk.dk/en/visit-the-museum/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/2011/danh-vo/about-danh-vo/ Danh Vo: Hip Hip Hurra, 20 November 2010 - 20 March 2011] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203013610/http://www.smk.dk/en/visit-the-museum/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/2011/danh-vo/about-danh-vo/ |date=3 December 2013 }} Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen.</ref> ''Oma Totem'' (2009), a stacked sculpture of his grandmother's welcome gifts from a relief program on her arrival in Germany in the 1980s, displays her television set, washing machine, and refrigerator (adorned with her own [[crucifix]]), among other items.<ref name="Danh Vo"/>
The conceptual work ''Vo Rosasco Rasmussen'' (2002–) involves the artist's marriage to and immediate divorce from a growing list of important people in his life;<ref name="Danh Vo">"[https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/danh-vo Danh Vo]". [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]], New York. guggenheim.org. Retrieved 2018-02-09.</ref> after each marriage, Võ retains the last name of his former spouse. His official name is now Trung Kỳ Danh Võ Rosasco Rasmussen.<ref>[http://www.smk.dk/en/visit-the-museum/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/2011/danh-vo/about-danh-vo/ Danh Vo: Hip Hip Hurra, 20 November 2010 - 20 March 2011] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203013610/http://www.smk.dk/en/visit-the-museum/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/2011/danh-vo/about-danh-vo/ |date=3 December 2013 }} Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen.</ref> ''Oma Totem'' (2009), a stacked sculpture of his grandmother's welcome gifts from a relief program on her arrival in Germany in the 1980s, displays her television set, washing machine, and refrigerator (adorned with her own [[crucifix]]), among other items.<ref name="Danh Vo"/>


For ''2.02.1861'' (2009–), the artist asked his father Phung Võ to transcribe the last communication from the French Catholic [[Théophane Vénard|Saint Théophane Vénard]] to his own father before he was decapitated in 1861 in Võ's native Vietnam; although multiple copies of the transcribed letter exist (1200 as of 2017),<ref name="NewYorkerProfile"/> the total number will remain undefined until Phung Võ's death.<ref name="nytimes.com"/><ref>[http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artwork/28837 Danh Vo, ''2.2.1861'', (2009–)] [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]], New York.</ref>
For ''2.02.1861'' (2009–), the artist asked his father Phung Võ to transcribe the last communication from the French Catholic [[Théophane Vénard|Saint Théophane Vénard]] to his own father before he was decapitated in 1861 in Võ's native Vietnam; although multiple copies of the transcribed letter exist (1200 as of 2017),<ref name="NewYorkerProfile"/> the total number will remain undefined until Phung Võ's death.<ref name="nytimes.com"/><ref>[http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artwork/28837 Danh Vo, ''2.2.1861'', (2009–)] [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]], New York.</ref>
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In ''Autoerotic Asphyxiation'' (2010), Võ presents documentary pictures of young Asian men taken by Joseph Carrier, an American anthropologist and counterinsurgency specialist who worked in Vietnam for the [[RAND Corporation]] from 1962 to 1973. While in Vietnam, Carrier privately documented the casual interactions he observed, intimate without necessarily being homoerotic, between local men; he produced a substantial photographic archive, which he subsequently bequeathed to Danh Võ.<ref>Holland Cotter (November 5, 2010), [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/arts/design/05galleries-copy2.html Danh Vo: Autoerotic Asphyxiation] ''The New York Times''.</ref>
In ''Autoerotic Asphyxiation'' (2010), Võ presents documentary pictures of young Asian men taken by Joseph Carrier, an American anthropologist and counterinsurgency specialist who worked in Vietnam for the [[RAND Corporation]] from 1962 to 1973. While in Vietnam, Carrier privately documented the casual interactions he observed, intimate without necessarily being homoerotic, between local men; he produced a substantial photographic archive, which he subsequently bequeathed to Danh Võ.<ref>Holland Cotter (November 5, 2010), [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/arts/design/05galleries-copy2.html Danh Vo: Autoerotic Asphyxiation] ''The New York Times''.</ref>


For his project ''We the People'', created between 2010 and 2012, Võ enlisted a [[Shanghai]] fabricator to recast a life-size [[Statue of Liberty]] from 30 tons of [[copper]] sheets the width of just two pennies.<ref>Martha Schwendener (August 7, 2014), [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/arts/design/danh-vos-we-the-people-divided.html Two Parks, One Statue, Lots of Pieces Lying Around] ''The New York Times''.</ref> Rather than assemble the approximately 300 sections,<ref name="Awash in a Cultural Deluge"/> the artist shipped the giant elements to some 15 sites around the world after they rolled off the production line in China.<ref name="nytimes.com"/> From mid May to early December 2014 ''We the People'' was shown in [[New York City]] under the auspices of the [[Public Art Fund]],<ref>"[https://www.publicartfund.org/view/exhibitions/6042_danh_vo_we_the_people Danh Vo: We The People&nbsp;&ndash; About the Exhibition]". Public Art Fund. publicartfund.org. Retrieved 2018-02-09.</ref> with its assembly of parts shared between [[City Hall Park]] in [[Lower Manhattan]] and [[Brooklyn Bridge Park]] in the borough of [[Brooklyn]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/exhibition-in-new-york-gives-new-perspective-on-statue-of-liberty-1400208982|title=Exhibition in New York Gives New Perspective on Statue of Liberty|first=Kirthana|last=Ramisetti|date=May 16, 2014|type=preview only; subscription required |work=The Wall Street Journal. wsj.com}}</ref><ref>Rosenberg, Karen (August&nbsp;7, 2014). "[https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/arts/design/danh-vos-we-the-people-divided.html Two Parks, One Statue, Lots of Pieces Lying Around: Danh Vo's 'We the People,' Divided]". ''The New York Times''. nytimes.com. Retrieved 2018-02-09.</ref> While the work was being installed in City Hall Park, a few of its pieces&nbsp;&ndash; replicas of the chain links found at the feet of the original Statue of Liberty&nbsp;&ndash; were stolen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2014/may/20/danh-vo-artwork-stolen-in-new-york/|title=Danh Vo artwork stolen in New York |publisher=Phaidon |date=May 20, 2014}}</ref>
For his project ''We the People'', created between 2010 and 2012, Võ enlisted a [[Shanghai]] fabricator to recast a life-size [[Statue of Liberty]] from 30 tons of [[copper]] sheets the width of just two pennies.<ref>Martha Schwendener (August 7, 2014), [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/arts/design/danh-vos-we-the-people-divided.html Two Parks, One Statue, Lots of Pieces Lying Around] ''The New York Times''.</ref> Rather than assemble the approximately 300 sections,<ref name="Awash in a Cultural Deluge">[[Roberta Smith|Smith, Roberta]] (March 14, 2013). "[https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/arts/design/the-hugo-boss-prize-2012-danh-vo-works-at-the-guggenheim.html Awash in a Cultural Deluge]". ''[[The New York Times]]''.</ref> the artist shipped the giant elements to some 15 sites around the world after they rolled off the production line in China.<ref name="nytimes.com"/> From mid May to early December 2014 ''We the People'' was shown in [[New York City]] under the auspices of the [[Public Art Fund]],<ref>"[https://www.publicartfund.org/view/exhibitions/6042_danh_vo_we_the_people Danh Vo: We The People&nbsp;&ndash; About the Exhibition]". Public Art Fund. publicartfund.org. Retrieved 2018-02-09.</ref> with its assembly of parts shared between [[City Hall Park]] in [[Lower Manhattan]] and [[Brooklyn Bridge Park]] in the borough of [[Brooklyn]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/exhibition-in-new-york-gives-new-perspective-on-statue-of-liberty-1400208982|title=Exhibition in New York Gives New Perspective on Statue of Liberty|first=Kirthana|last=Ramisetti|date=May 16, 2014|type=preview only; subscription required |work=The Wall Street Journal. wsj.com}}</ref><ref>Rosenberg, Karen (August&nbsp;7, 2014). "[https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/arts/design/danh-vos-we-the-people-divided.html Two Parks, One Statue, Lots of Pieces Lying Around: Danh Vo's 'We the People,' Divided]". ''The New York Times''. nytimes.com. Retrieved 2018-02-09.</ref> While the work was being installed in City Hall Park, a few of its pieces&nbsp;&ndash; replicas of the chain links found at the feet of the original Statue of Liberty&nbsp;&ndash; were stolen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2014/may/20/danh-vo-artwork-stolen-in-new-york/|title=Danh Vo artwork stolen in New York |publisher=Phaidon |date=May 20, 2014}}</ref> Today, parts of ''We the People'' (2011-2013) can still be found in the permanent holdings of several museum collections in the United States and abroad, such as at the [[Pérez Art Museum Miami]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Danh Vō • Pérez Art Museum Miami |url=https://www.pamm.org/en/artist/danh-vo/ |access-date=2023-09-12 |website=Pérez Art Museum Miami |language=en-US}}</ref>


For a 2013 show at the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]], Võ conceived a homage to the artist [[Martin Wong]]. The installation consists of nearly 4,000 frequently small artworks, artifacts and [[tchotchke]]s that once belonged to Wong, crowded into a specially designed gallery lined with [[laminated]] [[plywood]] shelves. The show's title—''I am you and you are too''—appeared on Wong's business cards and stamps.<ref name="Awash in a Cultural Deluge"/>
For a 2013 show at the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]], Võ conceived a homage to the artist [[Martin Wong]]. The installation consists of nearly 4,000 frequently small artworks, artifacts and [[tchotchke]]s that once belonged to Wong, crowded into a specially designed gallery lined with [[laminated]] [[plywood]] shelves. The show's title—''I am you and you are too''—appeared on Wong's business cards and stamps.<ref name="Awash in a Cultural Deluge"/>


Another 2013 show at New York's [[Marian Goodman Gallery]] focused on the personal effects of the late U.S. Secretary of Defense [[Robert McNamara]], the architect of the [[Vietnam War]]. Looking to open up a dialogue about shared and private histories, Võ displayed or modified 14 items acquired at a [[Sotheby's]] auction—including the pen used to sign the [[Gulf of Tonkin incident|Gulf of Tonkin memo]] and a 1944 photograph by [[Ansel Adams]].<ref>Michael Slenske (March 2013), [http://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/2013/03/conceptual-artist-danh-vo-at-the-guggenheim-and-marian-goodman/ Don't Miss: Danh Vo at the Guggenheim and Marian Goodman] ''[[W (magazine)|W]]''.</ref>
Another 2013 show at New York's [[Marian Goodman Gallery]] focused on the personal effects of the late U.S. Secretary of Defense [[Robert McNamara]], the architect of the [[Vietnam War]]. Looking to open up a dialogue about shared and private histories, Võ displayed or modified 14 items acquired at a [[Sotheby's]] auction—including the pen used to sign the [[Gulf of Tonkin incident|Gulf of Tonkin memo]] and a 1944 photograph by [[Ansel Adams]].<ref>Michael Slenske (March 2013), [http://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/2013/03/conceptual-artist-danh-vo-at-the-guggenheim-and-marian-goodman/ Don't Miss: Danh Vo at the Guggenheim and Marian Goodman] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129021804/http://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/2013/03/conceptual-artist-danh-vo-at-the-guggenheim-and-marian-goodman/ |date=2014-11-29 }} ''[[W (magazine)|W]]''.</ref>

In 2016, rankled by rising rents in Berlin, Võ and a group of friends – including the artists [[Rirkrit Tiravanija]], [[Nairy Baghramian]], and [[Haegue Yang]] – went in search of studio and storage space outside the city and found the {{convert|5000|m2|sqft|abbr=on}} Güldenhof, a former pig farm in [[Stechlin]], [[Brandenburg]] with a set of stone barns that had remained intact since the eighteenth century. Originally meant to be a collaborative compound, the property eventually fell to Võ, who eventually transformed it into his studio from 2017 to 2020.<ref>Andrea Whittle (March 15, 2020), [https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/884kwb/danh-vos-german-pastoral Danh Vo’s German Pastoral] ''[[Garage Magazine]]''.</ref><ref>[https://heimbalp.com/gutshof-guldenhof Gutshof Güldenhof] Heim Balp Architekten, Berlin</ref>


==Recognition==
==Recognition==
Võ won the 2012 [[Hugo Boss Prize]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/press-room/releases/5121-winnerhugobossprize2012 |title=Artist Danh Vo Wins Hugo Boss Prize 2012 |publisher=Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum |date=2012-11-01 |accessdate=2013-08-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130820005310/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/press-room/releases/5121-winnerhugobossprize2012 |archivedate=2013-08-20 }}</ref> the BlauOrange Kunstpreis of Berlin's [[Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken|Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken]] in 2007, and was a nominee for the Preis der [[Nationalgalerie]] für junge Kunst in 2009.<ref name="mariangoodman.com">[http://www.mariangoodman.com/artists/danh-v/ Danh Vo] [[Marian Goodman Gallery]], New York/Paris.</ref>
Võ won the 2012 [[Hugo Boss Prize]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/press-room/releases/5121-winnerhugobossprize2012 |title=Artist Danh Vo Wins Hugo Boss Prize 2012 |publisher=Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum |date=2012-11-01 |accessdate=2013-08-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130820005310/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/press-room/releases/5121-winnerhugobossprize2012 |archivedate=2013-08-20 }}</ref> the BlauOrange Kunstpreis of Berlin's [[Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken|Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken]] in 2007, and was a nominee for the Preis der [[Nationalgalerie]] für junge Kunst in 2009.<ref name="mariangoodman.com">[http://www.mariangoodman.com/artists/danh-v/ Danh Vo] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190527222355/https://www.mariangoodman.com/artists/danh-v |date=2019-05-27 }} [[Marian Goodman Gallery]], New York/Paris.</ref>


==Exhibitions==
==Exhibitions==
Võ had his first solo exhibition in 2005, at the Galerie Klosterfelde in Berlin.<ref>[http://cgi.klosterfelde.de/user-cgi-bin/exhibitions/?s1=03-previous&s2=2005 Danh Vo, November 19 - December 23, 2005] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004215516/http://cgi.klosterfelde.de/user-cgi-bin/exhibitions/?s1=03-previous&s2=2005 |date=October 4, 2013 }} Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin.</ref>
Võ had his first solo exhibition in 2005, at the Galerie Klosterfelde in Berlin.<ref>[http://cgi.klosterfelde.de/user-cgi-bin/exhibitions/?s1=03-previous&s2=2005 Danh Vo, November 19 - December 23, 2005] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004215516/http://cgi.klosterfelde.de/user-cgi-bin/exhibitions/?s1=03-previous&s2=2005 |date=October 4, 2013 }} Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin.</ref>


He participated in the [[Venice Biennale]] in 2013.<ref name="mariangoodman.com"/> His work has been exhibited at the [[Walker Art Center]] in [[Minneapolis]];<ref>{{cite web|last=Ryan |first=Bartholomew |url=http://www.walkerart.org/magazine/2012/tombstone-for-phung-vo |title=Tombstone for Phùng Vo — Magazine — Walker Art Center |publisher=Walkerart.org |date=2012-01-04 |accessdate=2013-08-23}}</ref> the [[Art Institute of Chicago]];<ref name="artic1" /> the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]] in New York; and the [[Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris]], [[Kunsthaus Bregenz]], [[Austria]], the [[Kunsthalle Mainz]], [[Germany]],<ref>[http://www.kunsthalle-mainz.de/en/exhibitions/past/thomas-schuette-brdanh-vo/ Reich ohne Mitte, Thomas Schuette und Danh Vo, August 5 - October 6, 2013] [[Kunsthalle Mainz]].</ref> among other institutions.
Võ participated in the [[Venice Biennale]] in 2013.<ref name="mariangoodman.com"/> His work has been exhibited at the [[Walker Art Center]] in [[Minneapolis]];<ref>{{cite web |last=Ryan |first=Bartholomew |url=http://www.walkerart.org/magazine/2012/tombstone-for-phung-vo |title=Tombstone for Phùng Vo — Magazine — Walker Art Center |publisher=Walkerart.org |date=2012-01-04 |accessdate=2013-08-23 |archive-date=2017-05-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517222208/http://www.walkerart.org/magazine/2012/tombstone-for-phung-vo |url-status=dead }}</ref> the [[Art Institute of Chicago]];<ref name="artic1" /> the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]] in New York; and the [[Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris]], [[Kunsthaus Bregenz]], [[Austria]], the Kunsthalle Mainz, [[Germany]],<ref>[http://www.kunsthalle-mainz.de/en/exhibitions/past/thomas-schuette-brdanh-vo/ Reich ohne Mitte, Thomas Schuette und Danh Vo, August 5 - October 6, 2013] [[Kunsthalle Mainz]].</ref> among other institutions.


In 2014 he shared an exhibition with [[Carol Rama]] at the [[Nottingham Contemporary]]. On November 14, 2014, his exhibition "الحجارة وادي" (Wād al-ḥaŷara) opened at [[Museo Jumex]] in [[Mexico City]]. From February 9 through May 9, 2018, the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]] is presenting ''Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away'',<ref>"[https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/danh-vo Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away]". Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. guggenheim.org. Retrieved 2018-02-10.</ref> the first comprehensive survey of the artist's work in the United States.
In 2014 Võ shared an exhibition with [[Carol Rama]] at the [[Nottingham Contemporary]]. On November 14, 2014, his exhibition "الحجارة وادي" (Wād al-ḥaŷara) opened at [[Museo Jumex]] in [[Mexico City]]. From February 9 through May 9, 2018, the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]] is presenting ''Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away'',<ref>"[https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/danh-vo Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away]". Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. guggenheim.org. Retrieved 2018-02-10.</ref> the first comprehensive survey of the artist's work in the United States.


[https://www.westkowloon.hk/en/mplus/about-m M+] [[M+|[1]]] in partnership with the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum organized an exhibition of [[Isamu Noguchi]] and Danh Võ. [https://stories.mplus.org.hk/en/blog/a-chat-with-danh-vo-about-noguchi-for-danh-vo-counterpoint/ (M+ Story)] [https://www.westkowloon.hk/en/whats-on/current-forthcoming/noguchi-for-danh-vo-counterpoint/event-type/highlights Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint](16 Nov 2018 - 22 Apr 2019) The exhibition take place in the [https://www.westkowloon.hk/en/mplus/m-pavilion M+ Pavilion], [[Hong Kong|Hongkong]].
[[M+]] in partnership with the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum organized an exhibition of [[Isamu Noguchi]] and Danh Võ. (M+ Story)<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Chat with Danh Vo About ‘Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint’ {{!}} M+ |url=https://www.mplus.org.hk/en/magazine/a-chat-with-danh-vo-about-noguchi-for-danh-vo-counterpoint/ |access-date=2024-02-15 |website=www.mplus.org.hk |language=en-US}}</ref> Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint (16 Nov 2018 - 22 Apr 2019). The exhibition take place in the M+ Pavilion, [[Hong Kong|Hongkong]].


==Art market==
==Art market==
Today, Võ is represented by the [[Marian Goodman Gallery]] in [[New York City]]; Galerie Chantal Crousel, [[Paris]]; [[Xavier Hufkens]], Brussels; and [[Galerie Buchholz]], [[Cologne]]. Until 2015, he also worked with Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin.<ref>{{cite web |first=Anny |last=Shaw |date=August 14, 2015 |url=http://theartnewspaper.com/market/art-market-news/158216/ |title=Danh Vo and Isabella Bortolozzi part ways as appeal in Bert Kreuk case is lodged |publisher=[[The Art Newspaper]]. theartnewspaper.com |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150818071243/http://theartnewspaper.com/market/art-market-news/158216/ |archivedate=2015-08-18 |accessdate=2018-02-10}}</ref>
Today, Võ is represented by the [[Marian Goodman Gallery]] in [[New York City]]; Galerie Chantal Crousel, [[Paris]]; [[Xavier Hufkens]], Brussels; [[Galerie Buchholz]], [[Cologne]]; and [[White Cube]] (since 2018).<ref>Andrew Russeth (6 June 2018), [https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/white-cube-now-reps-danh-vo-10447/ White Cube Now Reps Danh Vo] ''[[ARTnews]]''.</ref> Until 2015, he also worked with Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin.<ref>{{cite web |first=Anny |last=Shaw |date=August 14, 2015 |url=http://theartnewspaper.com/market/art-market-news/158216/ |title=Danh Vo and Isabella Bortolozzi part ways as appeal in Bert Kreuk case is lodged |publisher=[[The Art Newspaper]]. theartnewspaper.com |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150818071243/http://theartnewspaper.com/market/art-market-news/158216/ |archivedate=2015-08-18 |accessdate=2018-02-10}}</ref>


===2015 law suit===
===2015 law suit===
In 2014, Dutch collector and entrepreneur Bert Kreuk filed a suit against Võ, claiming that the artist agreed in January 2013 to produce one or more new works for Kreuk's exhibition, Transforming the Known, at the [[Gemeentemuseum Den Haag]], and that the work would be acquired by the collector after the show. Before the exhibition opened in June 2013, Võ sent an existing work, ''Fiat Veritas'' (2013), a cardboard box marked with gold leaf. However, Kreuk said the agreement had been for Võ to create a new work for his collection, expressing a preference for the artist's large-scale Budweiser and American Flag series. In June 2015, a Rotterdam court upheld Kreuk's claim and ordered the artist to create new artwork for the collector within a year.<ref>{{cite web |first=Anny |last=Shaw |date=June 25, 2015 |url=http://theartnewspaper.com/market/art-market-news/157210/ |title=Danh Vo to appeal court order to make 'large and impressive' new work for collector |publisher=The Art Newspaper. theartnewspaper.com |accessdate=2018-02-10}}</ref> In July 2015, Võ proposed to answer the court ruling by producing a site-specific wall work, as large as Kreuk wished, with the text "Shove it up your ass, you faggot";<ref name="NewYorkerProfile" /><ref>"[https://news.artnet.com/art-world/danh-vo-tells-bert-kreuk-to-shove-it-317385 Danh Vō Tells Collector Bert Kreuk to "Shove It" in Stunning Private Letter After Contentious Court Ruling]". ''[[Artnet|Artnet News]]''. artnet.com. Retrieved 2018-02-10.</ref><ref>Zwetsloot, Joris (July 17, 2015). "[http://www.volkskrant.nl/beeldende-kunst/-indrukwekkend-kunstwerk-wekt-ergernis-opdrachtgever~a4102455/ 'Indrukwekkend' kunstwerk wekt ergernis opdrachtgever]"{{in lang|nl}}. ''De Volkskrant''. volkskrant.nl.</ref> subsequently, his legal team reached a settlement and the collector dropped the suit.<ref name="NewYorkerProfile" />
In 2014, Dutch collector and entrepreneur Bert Kreuk filed a suit against Võ, claiming that the artist agreed in January 2013 to produce one or more new works for Kreuk's exhibition, Transforming the Known, at the [[Gemeentemuseum Den Haag]], and that the work would be acquired by the collector after the show. Before the exhibition opened in June 2013, Võ sent an existing work, ''Fiat Veritas'' (2013), a cardboard box marked with gold leaf. However, Kreuk said the agreement had been for Võ to create a new work for his collection, expressing a preference for the artist's large-scale Budweiser and American Flag series. In June 2015, a Rotterdam court upheld Kreuk's claim and ordered the artist to create new artwork for the collector within a year.<ref>{{cite web |first=Anny |last=Shaw |date=June 25, 2015 |url=http://theartnewspaper.com/market/art-market-news/157210/ |title=Danh Vo to appeal court order to make 'large and impressive' new work for collector |publisher=The Art Newspaper. theartnewspaper.com |accessdate=2018-02-10}}</ref> In July 2015, Võ proposed to answer the court ruling by producing a site-specific wall work, as large as Kreuk wished, with the text "Shove it up your ass, you faggot";<ref name="NewYorkerProfile" /><ref>"[https://news.artnet.com/art-world/danh-vo-tells-bert-kreuk-to-shove-it-317385 Danh Vō Tells Collector Bert Kreuk to "Shove It" in Stunning Private Letter After Contentious Court Ruling]". ''[[Artnet|Artnet News]]''. artnet.com. Retrieved 2018-02-10.</ref><ref>Zwetsloot, Joris (July 17, 2015). "[http://www.volkskrant.nl/beeldende-kunst/-indrukwekkend-kunstwerk-wekt-ergernis-opdrachtgever~a4102455/ 'Indrukwekkend' kunstwerk wekt ergernis opdrachtgever]"{{in lang|nl}}. ''De Volkskrant''. volkskrant.nl.</ref> subsequently, his legal team reached a settlement and the collector dropped the suit.<ref name="NewYorkerProfile" />

==Personal life==
Vō lives in Berlin and Brandenburg. In 2014, he also renovated a century-old home in [[Mexico City]]’s [[Colonia Roma|Roma Norte]] neighborhood. He is in a relationship with the photographer Heinz Peter Knes.<ref>Andrea Whittle (March 15, 2020), [https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/884kwb/danh-vos-german-pastoral Danh Vo’s German Pastoral] ''[[Garage Magazine]]''.</ref>


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
* [http://galeriebuchholz.com/index.php?menu_id=artists&artists_id=87/ Danh Vo] at [[Galerie Buchholz]]
* [http://galeriebuchholz.com/index.php?menu_id=artists&artists_id=87/ Danh Vo] at [[Galerie Buchholz]]
* [http://en.artpress.com/article/22/04/2013/danh-vo--the-refined-complexity-of-things/9301 Danh Vo: The Refined Complexity of Things], ''[[Art Press]]'', May 2013
* [http://en.artpress.com/article/22/04/2013/danh-vo--the-refined-complexity-of-things/9301 Danh Vo: The Refined Complexity of Things] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130615222616/http://en.artpress.com/article/22/04/2013/danh-vo--the-refined-complexity-of-things/9301 |date=2013-06-15 }}, ''[[Art Press]]'', May 2013
* [http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/features/living-history/ Living History], by Michele Robecchi, ''[[Art in America]]'', October 2012
* [http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/features/living-history/ Living History], by Michele Robecchi, ''[[Art in America]]'', October 2012
* [http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/finer-things/2013-03-15/danh-vo-channels-martin-wong-at-the-guggenheim-/ Danh Vo Channels Martin Wong at the Guggenheim], by Brian Boucher, ''Art in America'', March 2013{{dead link|date=January 2018}}
* [http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/finer-things/2013-03-15/danh-vo-channels-martin-wong-at-the-guggenheim-/ Danh Vo Channels Martin Wong at the Guggenheim], by Brian Boucher, ''Art in America'', March 2013{{dead link|date=January 2018}}
* [https://www.kunsthaus-bregenz.at/fileadmin/danh_vo/Heft_Danh_Vo.pdf ''Vô Danh'' at Kunsthaus Bregenz 2012, Ausstellungskatalog 2012] (in German, transl. [[:de:Sonja Finck|Sonja Finck]])
* [https://www.kunsthaus-bregenz.at/fileadmin/danh_vo/Heft_Danh_Vo.pdf ''Vô Danh'' at Kunsthaus Bregenz 2012, Ausstellungskatalog 2012] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201060503/https://www.kunsthaus-bregenz.at/fileadmin/danh_vo/Heft_Danh_Vo.pdf |date=2020-12-01 }} (in German, transl. [[:de:Sonja Finck|Sonja Finck]])
*[https://ocula.com/artists/danh-vo/ Danh Vo] at Ocula
*[https://ocula.com/artists/danh-vo/ Danh Vo] at Ocula


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Danh Võ
Võ in 2018
Born
Võ Trung Kỳ Danh

(1975-08-05) August 5, 1975 (age 48)
City of Vũng Tàu, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, Vietnam
NationalityDanish
Alma materStädelschule

Danh Võ (born Võ Trung Kỳ Danh, August 5, 1975)[1] is a contemporary artist of Vietnamese descent.[2] He lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City.[3][4]

Early life[edit]

Danh Võ was born in Vũng Tàu, Vietnam.[5][3][6] After the Communists' victory and the fall of Saigon, the Võ family and 20,000 other South Vietnamese were brought in 1975 to the island of Phú Quốc.[7] in 1979, when he was 4 years old, his family fled South Vietnam in a homemade boat and was rescued at sea by a freighter belonging to the Danish Maersk shipping company.[3][8] The family members settled in Denmark.[3] Their assimilation into European culture and the events that led up to their flight from Vietnam are reflected in Võ's art, which juxtaposes the historical and the personal.[9] When Danh Võ and his family were registered by the Danish authorities, the family name Võ was placed last. His middle name, Trung Kỳ, was recorded as his first name.

Võ moved to Berlin in 2005, after finishing school at Städelschule in Frankfurt, where he went after quitting painting at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.[10] He had residencies at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles (2006)[4] and at Kadist Art Foundation in Paris (2009).[11] He lives in both Berlin and Mexico City.[3]

Work[edit]

Installation view of "We The People", 2010-2013, at National Gallery of Denmark in 2013.

Võ's installations, which are composed of documents, photos and appropriations of works of other artists, often address the issues of identity and belonging.[7]

The conceptual work Vo Rosasco Rasmussen (2002–) involves the artist's marriage to and immediate divorce from a growing list of important people in his life;[12] after each marriage, Võ retains the last name of his former spouse. His official name is now Trung Kỳ Danh Võ Rosasco Rasmussen.[13] Oma Totem (2009), a stacked sculpture of his grandmother's welcome gifts from a relief program on her arrival in Germany in the 1980s, displays her television set, washing machine, and refrigerator (adorned with her own crucifix), among other items.[12]

For 2.02.1861 (2009–), the artist asked his father Phung Võ to transcribe the last communication from the French Catholic Saint Théophane Vénard to his own father before he was decapitated in 1861 in Võ's native Vietnam; although multiple copies of the transcribed letter exist (1200 as of 2017),[3] the total number will remain undefined until Phung Võ's death.[10][14]

In Autoerotic Asphyxiation (2010), Võ presents documentary pictures of young Asian men taken by Joseph Carrier, an American anthropologist and counterinsurgency specialist who worked in Vietnam for the RAND Corporation from 1962 to 1973. While in Vietnam, Carrier privately documented the casual interactions he observed, intimate without necessarily being homoerotic, between local men; he produced a substantial photographic archive, which he subsequently bequeathed to Danh Võ.[15]

For his project We the People, created between 2010 and 2012, Võ enlisted a Shanghai fabricator to recast a life-size Statue of Liberty from 30 tons of copper sheets the width of just two pennies.[16] Rather than assemble the approximately 300 sections,[17] the artist shipped the giant elements to some 15 sites around the world after they rolled off the production line in China.[10] From mid May to early December 2014 We the People was shown in New York City under the auspices of the Public Art Fund,[18] with its assembly of parts shared between City Hall Park in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridge Park in the borough of Brooklyn.[19][20] While the work was being installed in City Hall Park, a few of its pieces – replicas of the chain links found at the feet of the original Statue of Liberty – were stolen.[21] Today, parts of We the People (2011-2013) can still be found in the permanent holdings of several museum collections in the United States and abroad, such as at the Pérez Art Museum Miami.[22]

For a 2013 show at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Võ conceived a homage to the artist Martin Wong. The installation consists of nearly 4,000 frequently small artworks, artifacts and tchotchkes that once belonged to Wong, crowded into a specially designed gallery lined with laminated plywood shelves. The show's title—I am you and you are too—appeared on Wong's business cards and stamps.[17]

Another 2013 show at New York's Marian Goodman Gallery focused on the personal effects of the late U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, the architect of the Vietnam War. Looking to open up a dialogue about shared and private histories, Võ displayed or modified 14 items acquired at a Sotheby's auction—including the pen used to sign the Gulf of Tonkin memo and a 1944 photograph by Ansel Adams.[23]

In 2016, rankled by rising rents in Berlin, Võ and a group of friends – including the artists Rirkrit Tiravanija, Nairy Baghramian, and Haegue Yang – went in search of studio and storage space outside the city and found the 5,000 m2 (54,000 sq ft) Güldenhof, a former pig farm in Stechlin, Brandenburg with a set of stone barns that had remained intact since the eighteenth century. Originally meant to be a collaborative compound, the property eventually fell to Võ, who eventually transformed it into his studio from 2017 to 2020.[24][25]

Recognition[edit]

Võ won the 2012 Hugo Boss Prize,[26] the BlauOrange Kunstpreis of Berlin's Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken in 2007, and was a nominee for the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst in 2009.[27]

Exhibitions[edit]

Võ had his first solo exhibition in 2005, at the Galerie Klosterfelde in Berlin.[28]

Võ participated in the Venice Biennale in 2013.[27] His work has been exhibited at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis;[29] the Art Institute of Chicago;[2] the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York; and the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, the Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany,[30] among other institutions.

In 2014 Võ shared an exhibition with Carol Rama at the Nottingham Contemporary. On November 14, 2014, his exhibition "الحجارة وادي" (Wād al-ḥaŷara) opened at Museo Jumex in Mexico City. From February 9 through May 9, 2018, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is presenting Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away,[31] the first comprehensive survey of the artist's work in the United States.

M+ in partnership with the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum organized an exhibition of Isamu Noguchi and Danh Võ. (M+ Story)[32] Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint (16 Nov 2018 - 22 Apr 2019). The exhibition take place in the M+ Pavilion, Hongkong.

Art market[edit]

Today, Võ is represented by the Marian Goodman Gallery in New York City; Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; Galerie Buchholz, Cologne; and White Cube (since 2018).[33] Until 2015, he also worked with Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin.[34]

2015 law suit[edit]

In 2014, Dutch collector and entrepreneur Bert Kreuk filed a suit against Võ, claiming that the artist agreed in January 2013 to produce one or more new works for Kreuk's exhibition, Transforming the Known, at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, and that the work would be acquired by the collector after the show. Before the exhibition opened in June 2013, Võ sent an existing work, Fiat Veritas (2013), a cardboard box marked with gold leaf. However, Kreuk said the agreement had been for Võ to create a new work for his collection, expressing a preference for the artist's large-scale Budweiser and American Flag series. In June 2015, a Rotterdam court upheld Kreuk's claim and ordered the artist to create new artwork for the collector within a year.[35] In July 2015, Võ proposed to answer the court ruling by producing a site-specific wall work, as large as Kreuk wished, with the text "Shove it up your ass, you faggot";[3][36][37] subsequently, his legal team reached a settlement and the collector dropped the suit.[3]

Personal life[edit]

Vō lives in Berlin and Brandenburg. In 2014, he also renovated a century-old home in Mexico City’s Roma Norte neighborhood. He is in a relationship with the photographer Heinz Peter Knes.[38]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Taylor, Nora A. "Is Danh Vo a Vietnamese Artist?". Retrieved 2021-01-12.
  2. ^ a b "Danh Vo: We The People (detail), 2010–2013". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2013-08-23.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Tomkins, Calvin (January 29, 2018). "The Artist Questioning Authorship". The New Yorker. newyorker.com. Retrieved 2018-02-10.
  4. ^ a b David Ng (November 1, 2012), Danh Vo wins 2012 Hugo Boss Prize from Guggenheim Foundation Los Angeles Times.
  5. ^ Taylor, Nora A. (December 26, 2012). "Vietnam in Bits and Pieces: Danh Vo and His Fragmented Biography". diaCRITICS.
  6. ^ The Hugo Boss Prize 2012: Danh Vo Archived 2014-12-06 at the Wayback Machine Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
  7. ^ a b Daniel Völzke (December 11, 2009), Danh Vo: In Memory of Forgetting Archived 2018-01-24 at the Wayback Machine DB ArtMag.
  8. ^ Danh Vo: Uterus, September 23 – December 16, 2012 Archived October 4, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Renaissance Society, Chicago.
  9. ^ Carol Vogel (November 1, 2012), Native of Vietnam Wins Hugo Boss Prize The New York Times.
  10. ^ a b c Hilarie M. Sheets (September 20, 2012), Lady Liberty, Inspiring Even in Pieces The New York Times.
  11. ^ Residencies: Danh Vo Archived 2013-11-18 at the Wayback Machine Kadist Art Foundation, Paris.
  12. ^ a b "Danh Vo". Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. guggenheim.org. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
  13. ^ Danh Vo: Hip Hip Hurra, 20 November 2010 - 20 March 2011 Archived 3 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen.
  14. ^ Danh Vo, 2.2.1861, (2009–) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
  15. ^ Holland Cotter (November 5, 2010), Danh Vo: Autoerotic Asphyxiation The New York Times.
  16. ^ Martha Schwendener (August 7, 2014), Two Parks, One Statue, Lots of Pieces Lying Around The New York Times.
  17. ^ a b Smith, Roberta (March 14, 2013). "Awash in a Cultural Deluge". The New York Times.
  18. ^ "Danh Vo: We The People – About the Exhibition". Public Art Fund. publicartfund.org. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
  19. ^ Ramisetti, Kirthana (May 16, 2014). "Exhibition in New York Gives New Perspective on Statue of Liberty". The Wall Street Journal. wsj.com (preview only; subscription required).
  20. ^ Rosenberg, Karen (August 7, 2014). "Two Parks, One Statue, Lots of Pieces Lying Around: Danh Vo's 'We the People,' Divided". The New York Times. nytimes.com. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
  21. ^ "Danh Vo artwork stolen in New York". Phaidon. May 20, 2014.
  22. ^ "Danh Vō • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
  23. ^ Michael Slenske (March 2013), Don't Miss: Danh Vo at the Guggenheim and Marian Goodman Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine W.
  24. ^ Andrea Whittle (March 15, 2020), Danh Vo’s German Pastoral Garage Magazine.
  25. ^ Gutshof Güldenhof Heim Balp Architekten, Berlin
  26. ^ "Artist Danh Vo Wins Hugo Boss Prize 2012". Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 2012-11-01. Archived from the original on 2013-08-20. Retrieved 2013-08-23.
  27. ^ a b Danh Vo Archived 2019-05-27 at the Wayback Machine Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris.
  28. ^ Danh Vo, November 19 - December 23, 2005 Archived October 4, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin.
  29. ^ Ryan, Bartholomew (2012-01-04). "Tombstone for Phùng Vo — Magazine — Walker Art Center". Walkerart.org. Archived from the original on 2017-05-17. Retrieved 2013-08-23.
  30. ^ Reich ohne Mitte, Thomas Schuette und Danh Vo, August 5 - October 6, 2013 Kunsthalle Mainz.
  31. ^ "Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away". Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. guggenheim.org. Retrieved 2018-02-10.
  32. ^ "A Chat with Danh Vo About 'Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint' | M+". www.mplus.org.hk. Retrieved 2024-02-15.
  33. ^ Andrew Russeth (6 June 2018), White Cube Now Reps Danh Vo ARTnews.
  34. ^ Shaw, Anny (August 14, 2015). "Danh Vo and Isabella Bortolozzi part ways as appeal in Bert Kreuk case is lodged". The Art Newspaper. theartnewspaper.com. Archived from the original on 2015-08-18. Retrieved 2018-02-10.
  35. ^ Shaw, Anny (June 25, 2015). "Danh Vo to appeal court order to make 'large and impressive' new work for collector". The Art Newspaper. theartnewspaper.com. Retrieved 2018-02-10.
  36. ^ "Danh Vō Tells Collector Bert Kreuk to "Shove It" in Stunning Private Letter After Contentious Court Ruling". Artnet News. artnet.com. Retrieved 2018-02-10.
  37. ^ Zwetsloot, Joris (July 17, 2015). "'Indrukwekkend' kunstwerk wekt ergernis opdrachtgever"(in Dutch). De Volkskrant. volkskrant.nl.
  38. ^ Andrea Whittle (March 15, 2020), Danh Vo’s German Pastoral Garage Magazine.

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