Vietnam Contemporary Art Database (VCAD)

formerly known as Vietnam Art Archive (ViAA ) – is a public archive initiated by Heritage Space in 2020 with the aim of creating an archive of contemporary art practices in Vietnam since 1990. VCAD is operated to provide information, references, and resources for professionals and audiences of arts in general who want to learn systematically about Vietnamese art.

VCAD operates online (website) and is accessible via the Internet. VCAD archives and displays Data on Vietnamese Contemporary Artists and Artworks from 1990 to present which are selected based on our Criteria. VCAD’s archived data is divided into folders and managed similar to an open online library. The above materials are collected by VCAD and contributed by individuals, artists, groups and organizations in the field of arts and culture who are legal authors or copyright holders of such Data.

Artistic practices based on Vietnamese context, content and documents by Vietnamese artists, Vietnamese artists living and working abroad, international artists who reside in Vietnam are all in the scope to be collected, archived and introduced by VCAD.