Vitamin Creative Space

Biography

Danh Vo was born in Bà Rja, Vietnam, in 1975. Vo’s family fled the country in a homemade boat when he was four years old, the vessel was rescued at sea by a Danish freighter. Danh Vo grew up in Denmark, studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (1998-2002) in Copenhagen and the Städelschule (2002-2005) in Frankfurt. He lives in Berlin and is currently working on a farm-housing project outside of Berlin in Güldenhof. His artistic practices often address issues relating to identity and belonging, authority, ownership, the role of personal relationships and other conditions that define human existence in contemporary time.

Danh Vo represented Denmark at the Venice Biennale in 2015 with the exhibition Mothertongue and participated in the International Exhibition of the Biennale in 2013 and 2019. His principal exhibitions include Danh Vo, Pinault Collection, Bourse de Commerce, Paris (2023); Danh Vo, Isamu Noguchi, Park Seo-Bo, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice (2022); Isamu Noguchi / Danh Vo. a cloud and flowers, Mudam Luxembourg (2021); Danh Vo, Secession, Vienna (2021); Danh Vo oV hnaD, The National Museum of Art, Osaka (2020); Danh Vo: Untitled, South London Gallery, London (2019); Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint, M+, Hong Kong (2018); Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and SMK, Copenhagen (2018); Danh Vo, CAPC, Bordeaux (2018); Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission series: Danh Vo, National Gallery, Singapore (2017); Banish the Faceless / Reward your Grace, Palacio de Cristal, Reina Sofía, Madrid (2015-2016); Ydob eht ni mraw si ti, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2015); Go Mo Ni Ma Da, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (2013); We The People (detail) 2010-2013, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (2012); Vō Danh, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz (2012); JULY, IV, MDCCLXXVI, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2011), Hip Hip Hurra, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (2010); Danh Vo: Where the Lions Are, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2009); and Package Tour, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2008).

He is the winner of the Arken Art Prize, Ishøj, Denmark (2015), Hugo Boss Prize (2012) and the BlauOrange Kunstpreis der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisen Bank, Berlin (2007).

Studio Danh Vo Güldenhof