Exhibition
Danh Vo
Permanent Installation
Free admission
Booking will open in September 2025
Danh Vo has been commissioned to activate the YDP Reception and make provision for visitors to dwell, take time and take care while they are at the space. Vo’s commission is an open-ended project and an ongoing collaboration to introduce comfort and life into a new home, a familiar practice within the diasporic experience. In dialogue with the domestic nature of YDP’s building and the act of hosting central to its mission, the artist will propose ways for the space to become a living organism and to evolve over time.
Header image: Danh Vo, Güldenhof, Brandenburg, Germany. January 2025. Image courtesy of the Artist. Photography: Nick Ash.
About the Artist
Danh Vo (b.1975, Bà Ria) lives in Mexico City, Kyoto and Berlin. Since 2017, he also works on a farmhouse project outside of Berlin in Güldenhof. Vo’s projects emerge via objects and images that have accrued meaning in the world, whether through their former ownership, their proximity to specific events, or their currency as universal icons. An expanding and diversifying series of experiments, his work is driven by a profound desire to sift through the layers that inform our present, rather than creating a pluralist landscape for its own sake. Power, history, eroticism, personal biography, imperial dissolution and globalist expansion are all in play. The Vo family fled Vietnam to Denmark in 1979, and the artist’s work embodies the shifting and precarious nature of contemporary life. Vo imagines a world for the artist unbound by obligations to state institutions, social norms and grand humanist projects.
Vo studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the Städelschule in Frankfurt. He received the Hugo Boss Prize in 2012 and the Blauorange Kunstpreis in 2007, and was nominated for the Preis der Nationalgalerie in 2009. He participated in the Venice Biennale in 2013 and 2019, and represented Denmark in 2015 with the exhibition Mothertongue.
