Biography
Phuong-Dan Nguyen was born in Germany in 1982 as the son of Vietnamese immigrants. He studied Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg and Visual Communication with a focus on film and documentary photography at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. He has been working in this area of expertise as an author and a photographer since. Together with Stefan Canham, he published the photo book "Die Deutschen Vietnamesen" in 2011, before teaming up with Annika Kahrs in 2014 to release the art book "Hanoi View".
In cooperation with Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, he started the project "One Hundred People Say Umbrella" (2015) which addresses auditory publications in the context of fine arts. Since 2016, he has been presenting seminal experts from the spheres of art and (avant-garde) music at the renowned Kulturzentrum Kampnagel in Hamburg under the title of "Music from the High Wires". As a co-curator, Phuong-Dan Nguyen was also involved with the Berliner Festspiele event "Immersion – Schule der Distanz No. 1"(2016) at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.
In cooperation with director Philip Widmann, Phuong-Dan Nguyen made the documentary film "Ein Haus in Ninh Hoa" (2016) about the family history of three Vietnamese brothers whose paths of life split during the Vietnam War (one of the brothers had already featured in the book "Die Deutschen Vietnamesen"). "Ein Haus in Ninh Hoa" premiered at the documentary festival Visions du Réel in Nyon, Switzerland and opened in German movie theaters in January 2017.
Since many years, Nguyen has also been hosting his own club program at the Hamburg Golden Pudel Club and he keeps working internationally as a DJ.