Thuy Tien Nguyen

9 Jul-13 Sep 2026

Overview

Thuy Tien Nguyen is an artist based between Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and Hanoi, Vietnam. Nguyen's commission at Gasworks will take the form of a skeletal conveyor belt installation that mixes Vietnamese, Thai and British vernacular objects and sound. Evoking a system to circulate, compress and categorise, the work questions how identities and memories are formed, fragmented and circulated.

Thuy Tien Nguyen’s exhibition is commissioned by Thailand Biennale, Phuket and Gasworks, London. Supported by the Henry Moore Foundation, Art Fund, and public funding from Arts Council England.

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Thuy Tien Nguyen (b.1993, Hanoi, Vietnam) lives and works in Hanoi and Frankfurt am Main. In 2024, she completed her studies at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule as a Meisterschülerin in the class of Prof. Haegue Yang and in 2015 she graduated with a BA from the Hanoi Academy of Theater and Cinema. Her works have been shown in numerous international institutions, festivals, and off-spaces, including Frankfurter Kunstverein (2025); Stiftung BINZ39, Zurich, Switzerland; Hanoi Creative Festival Weekend; RAY Triennale at Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Nova Contemporary, Bangkok, Thailand (all 2024); Documenta 15, Stadtmuseum, Kassel, Germany (2023); Wiesbaden Kunstverein, Germany (2021). She has been nominated for several prestigious awards and has won numerous prizes, including the Young Generation Art Award by Monopol Magazine x Degussa (2025), the Städelschule – Portikus e.V. Graduate Prize (2024), the McKinsey Award (2023), the Deutschlandstipendium (2021), the DAAD Prize (2020), and the Ernst & Young Rundgang Prize (2020). Her residencies include the V.A.C. Residency Program in Hanoi, VN (2025), Salonul de proiecte in Bucharest, RO (2024), Koganecho Bazzar in Yokohama, JP (2018), and Mutual Unknow by CuratorsLab in Jakarta, ID (2017).