Group exhibition «Crossing Blue»

   Fifteen young Vietnamese artists have taken over the display floors of a private museum that normally shows Indochina-era painting. Video, lightboxes, projection spheres and canvases are gathered here around a single condition: the lag in which outside change turns into lived personal experience. If you want to see what the newest generation is making right now, you have a few days left.

   Crossing Blue is the main show of Ồ ẠT Oh Art Festival 2026, the season that borrowed the exhibition's title for its own theme. The curatorial text states the idea plainly: faced with a world moving too fast and too wide, an artist does not have to keep pace with it, and being out of sync is exactly what creates the distance needed for perception. Inside that distance, physical space turns into their psychological space. The organisers point out that most of the works are new and that many artists are stepping away from the medium they know best. The project is led by Hà Minh Thư and Mzung Nguyễn.

   Works to look out for:
Vũ Trịnh Hồng Đức — video in which the wish to return has to pass through digital imagery
Quinn — lightboxes that hold an image in a state of ambiguity
Võ Việt Dũng — an installation where inner life finds a visual structure inside projection spheres
Trần Châu Nhi — figures almost dissolving into lines of movement
Đào Minh Tú — a room organised by the rhythm of imagination
Đào Minh Tuấn — painted characters overlapping and knocking everyday space out of true
Phạm Huyền An — human figures drifting into territories hard to define
Hồ Kim Ngân — bodies placed close together yet keeping their distance

   The show suits people who have followed Vietnamese contemporary art for years and anyone approaching it for the first time alike: what you get is not a list of separate names but a cross-section of a generation, laid out in one route from video and light to object and painting. And if you usually come to this museum for the classics, this is a rare chance to see them standing next to the present day.

   Quang San Art Museum opened in 2023. It was founded by the family of Nguyễn Thiều Quang and Phùng Minh Nguyệt and is now run by their son, Nguyễn Thiều Kiên. The collection holds more than a thousand works, around three hundred of them on permanent display across three floors of roughly 2,000 square metres. Its core is Vietnamese painting of the last century — Lê Phổ, Mai Trung Thứ, Vũ Cao Đàm, Nguyễn Gia Trí.

   The exhibition opened on 1 September with a reception at 15:00 and stays open through the festival week, and admission is free. The festival runs one shared registration form for its whole programme: only the film screenings carry a booking fee, while exhibitions, talks and art-space visits are open to everyone.

   Questions go to the organisers at [email protected]. If you like catching art before it hardens into a finished form, these last days are the moment for it.