MAP 2025 – Arrival? Bremen – Hanoi – Berlin

In the organizer's words:

The Month of Art Practice (MAP) is an annual project of the Heritage Art Space in Hanoi, Vietnam, and serves as a platform for the exchange of artistic strategies, collective work and sustainable, intercultural dialogues. International artists come together with art school graduates to jointly develop an artistic practice and thematic exhibitions. In cooperation with the University of the Arts Bremen, this format has been expanded to include a working group in Germany. In a collaborative process, various perspectives on the topic of mobility have been developed and realized in analogue and digital formats since 2022. From multidisciplinary perspectives, the artists look at the movement of people, goods, ideas and immaterial things as well as the traces that are left behind.

After three years, the collaborative project has now come to a close and focuses on the ambivalence of arrival with MAP 2025 - Arrival? The eleven artists and two collectives explore themes such as migration, language and translation, intercultural exchange and global transportation. Performances, sound works, participatory actions, videos and in-situ sculptures question the supposed linearity of travel, the dead ends of freight traffic, shared rituals and different memories, the loss of space-time coordinates or the finality of a sculptural form.

The results of the collaboration will be presented in the urban space as well as in two parallel exhibitions at Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten in Berlin and at Long Bien Art Space in Hanoi and finally documented in a publication.

Curated by: Anh Tuấn Nguyễn, Ingo Vetter and Veronika Witte.

A cooperation of Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten with Heritage Art Space Hanoi and the University of the Arts Bremen.

The exhibition is supported by the district development funds of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, the ifa - Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, the German Aerospace Center, Pro Helvetia, the Karin and Uwe Hollweg Foundation and the Waldemar Koch Foundation.