Vietnam Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2026 Hosts Talk on Femininity in Folk Art with Le Huu Hieu

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• The talk 'La femminilità nell'arte popolare vietnamita e nella pratica artistica di Le Huu Hieu' takes place Saturday 17 October 2026 at 11:00 at Ca' Faccanon, Calle delle Acque, San Marco 5016, Venice
• Vietnam is participating in the Venice Biennale for the first time, with the pavilion 'Vietnam: arte nel flusso globale'
• Le Huu Hieu and assistant curator Mai Thi Xuan Huong lead the event, which is free with mandatory registration at bit.ly/EventoPadiglioneVietnam
• The date coincides with Vietnamese Women's Day, instituted in 1930
• Participants write a message to the most important woman in their life and receive a Vietnamese craft object while supplies last
• Gifts include Nha Xá silk scarves, Dó bark paper cards, Thụy Ứng horn horse pendants, Sinh Dược soaps and Bát Tràng ceramic magnets
• Le Huu Hieu's 'Baco da seta' corpus follows a 2015–2017 grotesque phase ended by the deliberate destruction of those works, with a shift from 2019 to historical reconstruction
• Works use jackfruit wood treated with the HOM technique and red lacquer, including a house over five meters long with a fifteen-meter roof painting and seventeen statues
• Commissioner Ma The Anh and curator Do Tuong Linh lead the pavilion