lêna bùi

Location : Para Site
22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Bldg.

677 King’s Road

Quarry Bay
Hong Kong

Excerpt text from Para Site:

Para Site is delighted to present Muted Hums, a group exhibition curated by Celia Ho. The exhibition features nine international and Asian artists, including new commissions and recent works by Catalina Africa, Özlem Altın, Lêna Bùi, Oscar Chan Yik Long, Saodat Ismailova, Ling Pui Sze, Man Mei To, Christina Quarles, and Aycoobo-Wilson Rodríguez.

Muted Hums explores the interplay between our inner selves and the broader worlds around us. The exhibition invites the audience to engage with the multiplicity and fluidity of existence, attuning to a deeper awareness of the multifaceted dimensions of being. The exhibition title prompts our attention to the subtle, often overlooked pulses of intimate emotions. By looking beyond immediate perceptions, we can connect with the silent gestures of consciousness, revealing the fragmented truths we carry within our bodies, inherited from those who came before us.

The exhibition revolves around the concept of mapping ourselves and observing what our bodies hold. This inquiry transcends corporeal boundaries beyond the present, perceiving the invisible energies that shape our connections. It challenges us to reconsider our sense of place within this intricate web of existences, where bodies exist within bodies and worlds unfold beyond the immediate.

Spanning a wide variety of media (including paintings, sculptures, video, and site-specific works), the artworks illuminate the unseen realms of personal narratives and collective memories. They reveal the otherness within and around us, challenging human-centric perspectives to envision a symbiotic and multidimensional world. Through the tensions between the fragmented and the unified, Muted Hums reimagines the interconnectedness of all beings across time.

If you happen to be in Zurich from November 13, 2025 to January 17, 2026, please visit my first solo show with Galerie Urs Meile, which is representing me from this year.

Full text by Lê Thuận Uyên. Excerpt :

skin in my stomach is the first solo presentation of Lêna Bùi at Galerie Urs Meile where a humble yet rigorous selection of work is featured, charting the artist’s exploration of materials, natural forms and the notion of body as an interchangeable reflection of the world, in a variety of media including silk paintings, photography, handwoven tapestry and moving image.

Informed by the body’s internal processes and in ecologist David Abrams’ concept of the body as “the locus of change”, Lêna sees the body as the “direct and only way to experience the world and a place to form or break connections". In many medicinal traditions, the stomach becomes a potent symbol - the seat of nurturing, intuition, and communication, acting as a nexus bridging us with the external world. The artist also sees the human body as a time vessel, one that constantly connects us to our ancestors and the climate that shaped us throughout our history. The stomach, therefore, is the most vulnerable yet the most resilient organ - registering every little change and regulating the body’s exchanges with the outside world in an efficient and elegant manner.

Excerpt text from The Power Station of Art

This edition of the Biennale will feature over 250 works by 67 individual artists and collectives from China and around the world, taking its cue from recent scientific discoveries about the interactions between different life forms. Like the flower that “hears” the bee’s wings, this exhibition aims to operate at the intersection of differing models of intelligence, both human and nonhuman. It is based on the belief that recent art provides us with a privileged space for such investigations, offering an embodied and interconnected sphere in which communities may form stronger bonds with what eco-philosopher David Abram has called “the more-than-human world.”

 We live in a moment of great uncertainty and global emergency that has given rise to a widespread sense of disorientation. Our world is transforming at a pace that eludes our capacity for comprehension, leaving us feeling bewildered and uncertain. If a return to the past is impossible, art offers us potential pathways out of despair and malaise, helping us to find emergent forms-of-life and new modes of sensorial communication amid this instability.

 Conceived in dialogue with the ideas of artists, curators, intellectuals, musicians, poets, scientists, and writers, Does the flower hear the bee? recognizes that much depends on our capacity to sense the world around us and attune ourselves to its diverse array of intelligences. Its hopeful vision rests on art’s ability to orient us towards an unknown future.

 The 15th Shanghai Biennale, Does the flower hear the bee?, will officially open to the public on November 8, 2025. Details of the exhibition's City Projects, publications, and opening week events will be announced soon.

They Became Myth
Moving Image from Vietnam

Date : 2025.12.09 - 12.13

Curated by: Mary Lou David

Location : VOX
2 Sainte-Catherine Street East (4th floor)
Montréal (QC), Canada, H2X 1K4

Excerpt text from VOX (visit the site for full text)

Bringing together Lena Bui, Nguyen Trinh Thi, Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran, Thao Nguyen Phan, Tuan Andrew Nguyen and Phan Anh, They Became Myth explores the construction and dissemination of mythologies across spiritual, cultural, political and personal landscapes. By engaging with different facets of Vietnamese history and identity, each video work questions what is remembered, altered or even obscured in the making of myth.

The VHWARD will be screened at Ars Electronica Center

Part 1: 16:00 to 16:30 Fri September 5, 2025

Part 2: 11:00 to 11:30 Sat September 6, 2025

The works are up on view at HEK Outdoor screening throughout Art Basel week from June 16 to 22, from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM.

There will be an evening of conversation with the finalists and the jury members on Tuesday, June 17, starting at 5:30 PM at HEK. Drinks and food will be served throughout the evening.

From June 18th, the works can also be seen at

• Vision Hall, Hyundai Motor Group University (a dedicated space for Hyundai Motor Group's education center), Seoul, South Korea

• Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing (a public space dedicated to art and technology located in the 798 art district), China

If you’re in Kyoto, please come check out this screening program at the Kyoto Art Center

Video Journey to Vietnam

Date and time: Sat, Jan 18, 2025 - Sun, Feb 9, 2025

place: Kyoto Art Center Japanese-style Room “Meirin”

In collaboration with San Art, Kyoto Art Center will present seven video works by five artists.
Nguyen Trinh Thi questions the disconnect between individual and collective history by juxtaposing films and videos depicting Vietnamese history with personal history. Xuan Ha’s work is inspired by the “ferryman” who collects information on the graves of those who lost their lives fighting for national liberation and connects them with the bereaved families. Lena Bui examines the representation of “nature” in video works set in Vietnam and asks questions about the consumption of visual images in contemporary society. Nguyen Hoang Giang examines how new technology affects people in contemporary society. Phan Anh’s work is a story of the artist’s own childhood memories and post-growth reality, composed as a narrative in which reality and fiction intersect.

My video Precious. Rare. For Sale. and silk paintings will be shown at the National Gallery Bangkok for this coming Biennale.

Hello Paris! My first solo show since 2018!

Thank you Bao and Quinnie for having me at BAQ x BAO. I still cannot believe how Bao powered through No Cai Bum, hands-on helped me ship my work out of Vietnam, and now setting everything up!

This show was totally fun to work on! I get to play with words and scents, learning a whole bunch of new things from scent designer and artist Dex Le.