Danh Vō
Danh Vō
14 February– 2 August 2026
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Stedelijk Museum hosts a solo exhibition by conceptual artist Danh Vō (born 1975, Vietnam; lives in Mexico City, and on his farm Güldenhof situated north of Berlin). Over the past two decades Vō gained critical acclaim for his exhibitions that share a unique sense of space and choreography.
The artist often takes contexts from life and exhibits them. He likes to consider the formation and dissolution of power structures, from individuals to empires. Rather than tell binary tales of perpetrators and victims, he surfaces the ways that power enacts itself on the subject, through pleasure and pain, seduction and assimilation. Vō’s installations explore how our lives and self-image are shaped by both collective history and personal experiences, embodying the shifting nature of contemporary life. For his exhibition at the Stedelijk, Vō develops new work that furthers his interest in the workings of history, religion, freedom, and eroticism. The collection of the Stedelijk holds two works by the artist and in 2008 the museum presented one of Vō’s first institutional exhibitions.