Pleased to share Day Wanes… Night Waxes, a solo exhibition by Vietnamese artist Trương Công Tùng, on view through September 2025. Curated by Corinne Diserens, Head of Contemporary Art & Exhibitions, the show unfolds as a poetic and immersive landscape where memory, myth, and material transformation intertwine.

This new body of work is the result of Trương Công Tùng’s ongoing artistic research in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, supported by the prestigious Philipp Otto Runge Fellowship. The grant has enabled the artist to further his exploration into ecological systems, indigenous knowledge, and spiritual cosmologies through site-specific research and newly produced artworks for the Kunsthalle. His approach echoes Philipp Otto Runge’s own vision of nature and art as deeply interconnected forces, reinterpreted here through a contemporary lens.

In Day Wanes… Night Waxes, Trương Công Tùng harnesses natural materials—lacquer, soil, seeds, ashes, water—and temporal processes such as fermentation, decay, and germination to create multisensory installations. These environments blur the boundaries between the visible and the invisible, questioning linear narratives, authorship, and the transmission of ancestral knowledge in a rapidly transforming world. The exhibition includes lacquer paintings, sculptural installations, and video works that engage with the cultural, spiritual, and ecological legacies of the artist’s homeland.

— Courtesy of Hamburger Kunsthalle.