present

I’m a Vietnamese-German artist based in Leipzig, Germany.

I am currently a guest student at UMPRUM Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Czech Republic in the applied art department for ceramics and porcelain until February 2024. After that I will go back to Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle, where I started studying in the department for plastic/ceramic art in 2018, to finish my diploma.

Technically, I mostly work with porcelain to use the white surface as a canvas for my blue and black paintings and drawings with the airbrush gun.

In addition to my studies, I work as a freelancer in our shared workshop in Leipzig.

My dog Moku has been accompanying me since 2020.

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“Leaving the layer of somatic meanings, Trami Nguyen seeks for "roots" within herself. Born and raised between two distinct cultures, she experiences „being Vietnamese" through the Vietnamese diaspora. For Trami, the homeland is something always close yet seemingly distant. When pottery becomes her artistic language, Trami gradually creates works that reconstruct faded images in her memory of Vietnam. The images and colours linger from the last visit to family when she was just a child. However, small everyday objects, once overlooked, are now moulded into shapes, fired, and then overlaid and compressed together. Ordinary, scattered objects, like a cup or a less noticed arrow, seem to find a familiar place in her mind.”  - Curator Nam Nguyen

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past

Before I started studying, I received a training (2015 - 2018) at the ceramic school in Landshut to become a potter. From throwing, structural ceramics, building models, to theories and manual skills, everything was part of the training. I’m so grateful for the experiences during this time, the knowledge I got and still get from my masters and ceramic friends.

From 2012 to 2015 I attended an artistic technical college in Munich (Fachoberschule für Gestaltung München). At a school-internship I’ve had my first encounter with ceramics and soon after I applied for the apprenticeship in Landshut.

I was born in 1994 in Dachau close to Munich, Germany.

exhibitions

  • “At the roots, the mirage is clear | 𝐃𝐮̛𝐨̛́𝐢 𝐠𝐨̂́𝐜, 𝐦𝐨̛̀ 𝐚̉𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐞̣̂𝐧“, Gate Gate Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam /Group exhibition

  • “Feste Luft”, 4transfer, Pop Up Science, Dresden /Group exhibition

  • “Notes from Home“, Tiff, Leipzig /Group exhibition

  • “Al2O3 2SiO2 2H2O“, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle /Group exhibition

  • “O. T.“, Diessener Töpfermarkt am Ammersee /Group exhibition

2023

  • “Mùi trà hoa nhài - The smell of jasmine tea“, ARTSEMESTR Zita 2024, Prague /Group exhibition

2024

2022

  • “Jahresausstellung“, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle /Group exhibition

  • “Kodierte Signale“, KVD Galerie, Dachau /Solo exhibition

  • “After dinner“, Diessener Töpfermarkt am Ammersee /Group exhibition

  • “Mimimi!“, Galerie Irrgang, Leipzig /Collection of Tobias Wachter

  • “The daily dose“, Alte Westend-Apotheke, Munich /Group exhibition

  • “Tischkultur“, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle /Group exhibition

2021

  • “Stockschwamm“, Galerie Handwerk, Munich /Group exhibition

2020

  • “Jahresausstellung“, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle /Group exhibition

  • “Schwarz – Weiss“, Freiraum Dachau /Group exhibition

2019

  • “Abschlussausstellung 2018“, Keramikschule Landshut /Group exhibition

2018