The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre

As the first purpose-built independent space for contemporary art in Vietnam (a country that possesses a rich aesthetic tradition with diverse languages, yet remains fairly hidden on the global map of contemporary fine art), we aim to be a “factory” of critical ideas; a site of constant physical transformation; a network of people who strive to speak about tangible and intangible cultural memories that matter and are indelibly unique. We endeavor to initiate programs that connect and develop cross-cultural dialog, collaborating with like-minded partners at home and abroad to further develop artistic production and cultural publics in Vietnam. We want to expand the scope of local infrastructure for arts and culture and acknowledge artists today as interdisciplinary thinkers who reveal unique ways of conceiving our journey into the 21st century—their ideas we thus nurture and celebrate as constructive observations of our social world.