How to Waterboard a Tech Bro is Trọng Gia Nguyễn’s first solo exhibition in Paris, presented by Galerie Bao, examining power, technology, and political absurdity through digital art, painting, and conceptual installations rooted in contemporary socio-political critique.
Hà My Nguyễn transforms the gallery into a ceramic garden of mystical, hybrid plants. Her delicate sculptures, inspired by marginalised botanical knowledges and the resilience of femininity, invite viewers into a world where nature and imagination intertwine.
Trương Công Tùng, is taking part in the third edition of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennal « Interludes and Transition » (Saudi Arabia) led by artistic directors Nora Razian and Sabih Ahmed. He is exhibited alongside over 70 artists from all around the world, working across disciplines such as sound and performance to moving image, architecture and research. Theirs projects will be shown from 30 January to 23 April 2026.
Phan Quang, represented by Galerie Bao (Paris), is nominated for the 2026 Discovery Prize, by the Fondation Louis Roederer, at Rencontres d’Arles (France), alongside Souleymane Bachir Diaw, Jordan Beal, Amira Lamti, Mallory Lowe Mpoka, Magali Paulin and Charlotte Yonga. Their projects are curated by guest curator Nadine Hounkpatin and will be exhibited at the next edition of the 2026 Rencontres d’Arles, from 6 July to 4 October 2026.
PARIS — “Go ahead, feel them!” gallerist Lê Thiên-Bảo encouraged visitors to her booth at Asia Now fair. Emboldened by her enthusiasm, I broke the well-worn rule of not touching artworks and caressed the fleshy ceramics of Vietnamese artist Hà My Nguyễn. Inside the grand halls of La Monnaie de Paris, just steps from the Louvre, the fair’s mood remained undisturbed by the museum’s recent brazen heist, which has shaken the country…
Après avoir traversé un couloir, on se retrouve dans la cour d’Honneur de l’institution, habitée pour les prochains jours d’une grande tente blanche et d’un buffet-bar. Dès l’entrée de ce pavillon, le regard se pose sur les sculptures en céramique d’Ha My Nguyen présentées par la galerieBao (stand H12).
Sur des murs tapissés de velours noir, ses créations blanches détonnent et intriguent…
Curatrice originaire de Hô Chi Minh-Ville, Bảo-Thiên Lê s’est implantée dans le 11 arrondissement, rue Parmentier, qui, selon elle, abrite « une population jeune et dynamique » , qu’elle espère capter. Son premier local pérenne, de près de 90 m , a été inauguré en septembre. La galerie BAO promeut dix artistes émergents, dont neuf vietnamiens…
