Danh Vo (b. 1975, Bà Rja, Vietnam) is a conceptual artist living in Güldenhof. With an openness to personal relationships and fortuitous encounters, Vo’s projects emerge via objects and images that have accrued meaning in the world, whether through their former ownership, their proximity to specific events, or their currency as universal icons. His work becomes an expanding and diversifying series of experiments, questioning what happens if he brings one set of elements together, then another, and another. Rather than creating a pluralist landscape for its own sake, this approach is driven by a profound desire to sift through the layers that inform our present. Power, history, eroticism, personal biography, imperial dissolution and globalist expansion are all in play. The Vo family escaped Vietnam to Denmark in 1979, and the artist’s work embodies the shifting and precarious nature of contemporary life. Vō imagines a world for the artist unbound by obligations to state institutions, social norms and grand humanist projects.