The DML ‘nước Đức’ will open on 20 September 2025 as part of the heimaten festival, accompanied by workshops, panel discussions and artistic interventions.
The Dynamic Memory Lab is a dynamic space for remembrance. A participatory exhibition. A place of lived plurality. As a laboratory dedicated entirely to remembrance, it is dynamic, flexible, open and unfinished. It invites visitors to share, pause, discuss, rethink and reflect. About what memory is and what society can be.
The Dynamic Memory Lab »Nước Đức« explores Vietnamese-German migration history and how we remember, narrate, suppress, and silence the past.
At the project’s heart are the memories and experiences of the Vietnamese-German community. These span decades and bear the marks of escape and contract labour, the divide between North and South Vietnam, East and West Germany, and histories of violence and self-empowerment. The Dynamic Memory Lab »Nước Đức« connects experiences that are rarely seen together, despite being deeply intertwined.
Together, these narratives form a memory landscape shaped by Cold War politics and the post-reunification era. Like a compass, this landscape reveals both ideological ruptures and biographical connections.
Curators Dan Thy Nguyen and Nina Reiprich bring to-gether contributions from artists and activists of the younger Vietnamese-German generation. They approach this history from multiple perspectives. Through artistic works, personal texts and interview excerpts, contributors trace the complexity of Vietnamese- German experiences, exposing contradictions, breaks and silences.
The opening of the Dynamic Memory Lab »Nước Đức« is part of the decentralised heimaten festival. The heimaten network is an initiative of the House of World Cultures within the framework of heimaten, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media based on a resolution by the German Bundestag.
The booklet for the Dynamic Memory Lab »Nước Đức«:
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