Entering art is like a house

An Vũ |

When the domestic art market has shown signs of improvement in recent years, many spaces for exhibition activities have opened in provinces and cities to bring art closer to the public.

How to maintain these spaces while bringing both an interesting and approachable experience to viewers is not an easy challenge. Nuong Nu Haus or Nhouse of Nuong Nu - a small-scale coffee - art model has been officially operated for more than a year but has made its mark with its own path.

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Starting from Nuong Nu Coffee (3.2024), followed by Nuong Nu atelier, Nuong Nu Art Hub (8.2024) creates the third art piece of the small-scale Ngoi Nha Nuong Nuong complex. The owner of the idea was Do Nguyen Thao Trang (1991), a bank employee with more than 10 years of work, who no longer found joy in office work.

Trang likes a beautiful space, opening a small cafe, when her husband - an architect - finds a house for rent in an alley on Nguyen Gia Thieu street (which was planned to move to an architectural office), Trang's career "disrupts". After 2 months of operating the cafe, Trang rented the house right opposite, renovated it to organize art activities.

The good thing about the complex is the coffee space that is close but not confused with the art exhibition space. Both are decorated with sophisticated, meticulous aesthetics but evoke a gentle, comfortable feeling like stepping into a house.

Art comes to viewers naturally, closely, and not at all unfamiliar. Painting pottery, trees, flowers, windows, light... both enhances its own beauty and is capable of supporting each other in a harmonious whole.

Tac phẩm “Silent dream“, hoa si Dao Thao Phương, triển lam Tô-gether. Ảnh: Nương Nau Haus
The work " Silent Dream", artist Dao Thao Phuong, exhibition To-gether. Photo: Nuong Nau Haus

The space bears its owner's mark, Trang is good at cooking, likes meticulous things, and has loved fashion design since high school. Not originating from an environment that creates conditions for artistic development from a young age or being trained in professional art, Thao Trang's love of art comes from the emotions it brings.

The art world gives people peace, calmness, and depth thanks to its "unforgettable" beauty. The "language" is directly, you can immediately feel the sincerity without the need to use complex words and arguments to analyze and explain.

But a foreign person also has a certain disadvantage, in building trust in artists. Nuong Nu art space welcomes young artists, true art lovers, creating conditions for them to share their love and works with everyone. However, the exhibition room also needs a team of skilled artists with a professional mark to maintain regular exhibition of works and stable quality.

The space for refugees suitable for small and medium works is also a limit. On the other hand, in order to improve the quality of artistic activities, not only depends on the seriousness and grooming of the refuge, but also in cooperation with experienced and truly dedicated partners so that the content of the display is diverse, rich, in -depth, attracting the public and the art circles interested.

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After the first exhibitions such as Giao (8.2014), Tinh (11.2024), To-gether (12.2024), Tet (11.2025) are the Trey Art exhibition (2.2025), the latest is Ha Mien Selection (5.2025). Each exhibition is a mark, like Giao combining painting, ceramic and flower arrangement. Tinh brings a quiet, free state from the works of the three artists Hieu Nguyen, Duy Anh, Tho Hieu. To-gether brings a youthful, passionate rhythm of the Studio42 group of artists. Tet is a Spring celebration with painter Vu Thuy Mai, Tran Cuong, Nguyen Minh, Trai Art is a Spring trip of many painters, Ha Mien Selection is a private archive for the celebratory summer months.

Môt phần không gian Ha Miên Selection. Ảnh: Hai An
Part of Ha Mien Selection space. Photo: Hai An

The atmosphere created by the paintings is the same source of beautiful and healthy energy even though they can be in different states: Warm, gentle, pure, joyful. The images in the painting, from nature, scenery, and people, are all as close as coming out of life, not seeming to be edgy, mysterious, and need to be meticulously guided. The liveliness of the exhibition, in addition to paintings or symbols, also includes artistic conversations, accompanying workshops that artists and art lovers participate in.

The art that Nuong Nu brings is not only the works hanging on the wall, but also the emotions, the stories recreated through every breath, every minute of both artists and viewers. It is like a relaxation and balance that people can achieve right in life without having to look for it too far. Sharing art is spreading together, enjoying the values it brings together, making each person's life more colorful, beautiful, and meaningful.

In a bustling city, there is a very quiet street, in a quiet street, there is a cool little alley, full of sunshine, fragrance, and a house for everyone to go and come to, watch and admire, a place to rest for the soul. The street is named after the poet, and it seems to have a poetic soul for those who come to it.

Ha Mien Selection is the 6th exhibition organized by Nuong Nu Art Hub, from May 20 to August 31, 2025 at 13B Nguyen Gia Thieu, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi. The exhibition includes 45 works by 21 participating artists.

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