Artists // Loan Nguyen // Vita:
Loan Nguyen
*1977, Lausanne, Switzerland
Loan Nguyen captures in her photographs the formal colour arrangements of different places and rooms. The photographs are not intended to be an objective documentation of the space itself, but rather an emotional documentation of being in the space. Nguyen utilises light and colour to give a new dimension to an otherwise empty or insignificant space. Unlike Cindy Sherman or Elina Brotherus, who used themselves as a center of attention, Nguyen incorporates herself with specific gesture or pose into the images to highlight the aesthetic and emotional quality of the space. When viewers look at Nguyen’s photographs, they will notice the artist’s presence, but their attention will be centrally focused on the special atmosphere of the location.
www.madameloan.com
1996 - 2000
Ecole d'Arts Appliqués, Advanced Photography, Vevey, Switzerland
2009
Loan Nguyen: Stellenweise, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Germany
2008
Loan Nguyen, Ego Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2007
Mobile, Herrmann & Wagner, Berlin, Germany
Duncan Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2006
Nexus, Vienna, Austria
Galerie Marangoni, Florence, Italy
2005
You and Me: Body Talks (with Max Streicher), Herrmann & Wagner, Berlin , Germany
Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris, France
Galerie Basta, Lausanne, Switzerland
2004
Fashion photography cycle, Galerie Partikel, Lucerne, Switzerland
Espace „L’entremps“, Le Bon Marche, Paris, France
10 Designers, Hyères Festival for Fashion Arts, Hyères, France
2010
PhotoPhnomPenh 2010, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2009
Vietnam Mon Amour, mc2gallery, Milano, Italy
2008
Held together with Water, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul
De Broissement des Images, Centre Photographique d’ ile de France, Pontault- Combault
Forum für Fotografie, Köln, Germany
2007
Held together with water, Art from the Collection Verbund, Museum of Applied Art (MAK), Vienna, Austria
Loan Nguyen, Signe Vad, Maarit Hohteri, Carla van de Puttelaar, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris, France
2006
Reale Fantasien – Neue Fotografie aus der Schweiz, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Loan Nguyen – Mathieu Bernard-Reymond, FSM Gallery, Florence, Italy
2004
Vagues 2. Hommages et digressions, Musée Malraux, Le Havre, France
Poc in Town, Forum für Fotos, Cologne, Germany
Mains d’ètrangères, Forum de L’Hôtel de Ville, Lausanne, Switzerland
2003
Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris, France
Foreign Hands, Forum de l’Hôtel de Ville, Lausanne, Switzerland
Young Photography, Galerie La Filature, Mulhouse, France
The Selection VFG 2002, Zurich, Switzerland
Hyères Festival for Fashion Arts, Photographic selection, Hyères, France
Collection Verbund, Austria
UBS, Art at Work, Switzerland
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
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