Lebadang Memory Space

Inaugurated on 21 April, 2019, Lebadang Memory Space is the first museum of contemporary art in the ancient Hue city of Vietnam. Nested in a lush green area of 16,000m2, this is home to the first and largest ART SPACE in a substantial garden setting everseen in Asia. A journey to the Space creates unique experiences of art immersion for visitors, with step-free access and natural hospitality. Paying homage to Hue and the Central Vietnam as the cultural root of the world-renowned artist Le Ba Dang, the compound itself resembles an original artwork of the late artist, one that captures his art philosophy of a borderless space where man and the Cosmos are one. His signature work Lebadang Spaces is among the most remarkable artworks of the artist, earning him acclamation by European critics as the Art Master of the Orient and the West since 1957. As the core experience of Lebadang Memory Space, visitors are most welcome to a comprehensive private collection of 293 contemporary artworks. The Courtyard is home to 2,532 plants and trees, creating a unique and native botanical enclave within the Space. The museum not only preserves and displays Lebadang artworks but also illuminates the art creation process and how art and the artists transform visitors experiences and our understanding of the world in which we live in. It also introduces to the world audience a unique art form in which the artist worked on paper, combining various techniques by using collage and superimposition, mid-way between sculptures and bas-reliefs, like a synthesis reaching beyond these two forms of expression. The Space inspire visitors to enjoy the blending of artworks and the nature, to feel ourself as part of the artwork and its expression story, to be curious, to be thoughtful and to be enlightened. Lebadang Memory Space is a center for world- wide visitors and local residents cultural engagement, an inspiration and prestige cultural exchange networking destination for Hue, the