Nguyen Xuan Huy

Nguyen Xuan Huy (* 1976 in Hanoi , Vietnam ) is a Vietnamese painter.

Life

Nguyen is the son of a Viet Cong fighter and a factory worker who worked as a guest worker in the GDR . He graduated from high school in Hanoi in 1992 and began studying architecture in his hometown. At the invitation of his mother, who remained in Germany, he went to Germany in 1994 to continue his studies there. From 1995 he attended a preparatory college in Nordhausen in Thuringia and began studying painting in 1996 at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle an der Saale . There he completed his studies in the fine arts in 2003 with distinction.

2001 to 2002 Nguyen spent as a student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux . This was followed by postgraduate studies from 2004 to 2006 at his alma mater . In 2005, a scholarship enabled him to travel to his home country. There he recorded, among other things, the victims of the defoliant Agent Orange with a pen and camera . In the years that followed, the subject of people who were born deformed due to the damage to their parents' genetic makeup became a very important theme for the artist.

Since 1998 Nguyen has exhibited his works in solo and group exhibitions in Germany, Europe and the USA . He lives and works in Berlin. He is married. The couple had a son who was born healthy.

Prizes and awards

• Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of the State of Saxony-Anhalt .
• Graduate funding from the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
• Scholarship from the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation
• Freeman Fellowship in the Asian Artist category at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont , USA.

Exhibitions

• 2001: Art Power Dignity , Federal Constitutional Court , Karlsruhe, group exhibition.
• 2001: Chaos , in Bordeaux, France, group exhibition.
• 2002: Expo-02 Art Contemporain , Île de Ré , France, group exhibition.
• 2005: Ars Hallensis 2004 , Volkspark Gallery, Halle, group exhibition.
• 2007: Galerie Rothamel, Frankfurt am Main and 2008 in Erfurt , solo exhibition.
• 2009: Gallery Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, USA, solo exhibition.
• 2010: Metamorphosen , Galerie Wedding, Berlin, solo exhibition.
• 2015: Nest , Mannheimer Kunstverein , Mannheim, solo exhibition.
• 2015: Last Unspoken word, Galerie Rothamel, Frankfurt am Main, solo exhibition.
• 2015: Talking about the Blue Sky , Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt, solo exhibition.
• 2016: Nguyen Xuan Huy, Make it rain, Sparkassengalerie Schweinfurt, solo exhibition.
• 2017: Dancing Until The Ground Is Gone , Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt, solo exhibition.
• 2017: Sunday Trip, Galerie Rothamel, Frankfurt am Main, solo exhibition.

literature

• Nguyen Xuan Huy. Edition Young Art; in German and English. Kerber, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-86678-398-0 .
• Jörk Rothamel: Nguyen Xuan Huy: Last Unspoken Word. Christof Kerber, Bielefeld / Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-7356-0168-1 .

Web links

• Nguyen Xuan Huy's website
• Literature by and about Nguyen Xuan Huy in the catalog of the German National Library
• Nguyen Xuan Huy at the Rothamel Gallery