Truong Công Tùng. Ngày tàn... Đêm lên

Truong Công Tùng is the recipient of the research-production-exhibition grant from the Philipp Otto Runge Foundation. The Fellowship has supported Truong’s artistic research in the Central Highlands in Vietnam and the production of artworks in the context of the presentation of a new installation at the Hamburger Kunsthalle from May 2025.

Truong Công Tùng (born 1986) grew up in Dak Lak among various ethnic minority communities in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. He graduated from Ho Chi Minh Fine Arts University in 2010, majoring in lacquer painting. With research interests in science, cosmology, philosophy, and the environment, he works with a range of media, including video, sculpture, painting, and found objects, which reflect personal contemplations on the cultural and geopolitical shifts of modernization, as embodied in the morphing ecology, belief, or mythology of a land. He is also a member of Art Labor (founded in 2012), a collective working between visual art and social/life sciences to produce alternative non-formal knowledge via artistic and cultural activities in various public contexts and locales.