Compilation of photographs taken before the first opening of 'Hanoin Henki' at the gallery of the Artists' Association of Oulu.
Image 1: Curator and Hanoi-based Finnish artist Maritta Nurmi with other Finnish artists before the opening of 'Hanoi Henki'. Next to her is Finnish artist Kirstti Carlenius. One artist is painting on the cut-outs by Vu Dan Tan, while Marju Kaltila, a Finnish artist and art teacher takes documentation.
Image 2: Maritta Nurmi and Natasha Kraevskaia preparing for an interview with a Finnish journalist
Image 3: Nguyen Van Cuong and a Finnish artist
Image 4: Nguyen Van Cuong and Vu Dan Tan. Displayed above the piano are works by Nguyen Van Cuong
Image 5: On the wall are works by Nguyen Van Cuong
Image 6: View of the gallery
Image 7: On the wall are paintings by Nguyen Van Cuong (left) and Dinh Thi Tham Poong (right). In the corner is Vu Dan Tan's installation with boxes
Image 8: Maritta Nurmi during an interview before the opening of the exhibition.

'Hanoin Henki' (or 'Spirit of Hanoi') was a visual art project conceptualised and proposed by Pauli Mustonen (Cultural Attaché of the Finnish Embassy of Finland, Vietnam), Maritta Nurmi (Finnish artist resided in Hanoi), and Eric Leroux (French artist and frequent collaborator with Salon Natasha), on the occasion of the Asian Art and Culture Festival in Finland. The curatorial team intended to present to the audience an ecology of the Vietnamese art scene, namely the interconnections between art creation, daily life, artist/public interaction and collaboration; as well as the co-existence and exchanges between traditions and modernity in various art forms. Salon Natasha — a multi-functional artist-run space — was hence chosen to be represented and reconstructed as an installation in the Festival.
The project was presented in two exhibitions held in Helsinki and Oulu respectively.