Galerie Quynh

Vietnam's leading contemporary art gallery, over two decades of steady commitment

Gallery from the Localis platform

If you only have time to visit one contemporary art gallery in Ho Chi Minh City, many people in the art world will point you to Galerie Quynh. It began in 2000 as an online documentation project on Vietnamese fine art, founded by Vietnamese-American art researcher Quynh Pham and British artist Robert Cianchi. The space gradually grew into a commercial gallery internationally recognised as a leader in contemporary art in Vietnam. For more than two decades, Galerie Quynh has done one thing with great consistency: standing beside Vietnamese artists from the moment they are finding their voice until they reach the wider world. Artists from the gallery have appeared on the biggest stages of global art, such as Tuan Andrew Nguyen, who was invited to the 61st Venice Biennale and won the commission for the High Line Plinth in New York. Every one to two months the gallery opens a new exhibition, from solo retrospectives to themed group shows. What matters for the non-specialist visitor is that this is not a haughty place. Admission is free, the space is spacious and quiet in the middle of the Tan Dinh area, and the gallery devotes considerable care to art education, including talks, lectures and bilingual publications that give newcomers a way into contemporary art rather than a feeling of being left outside. The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday; visitors can park motorbikes in the alley next to 166 Nguyen Van Thu. If you want to look more deeply or come outside opening hours, send an email to arrange a visit in advance, as the team here is used to welcoming both collectors and people stepping into an exhibition space for the first time.

English text: machine translation from the Localis platform — proper names kept in Vietnamese.