Welcome to the Dogma Collection

The Dogma Collection is a private undertaking, based in and around Vietnam, comprising two separate but connected programs.

The first is an archive of materials drawn from the decades that witnessed the tumultuous but determined birth of modern Vietnam, the period of 1945-1985. It contains:

• Over one thousand examples of propaganda art, consisting of paintings composed and drawn as part of the Independence and Reunification movements.

• An extensive body of philately, two thousand sheets, ranging from original ‘essays’ through printers’ proofs, to mint, franked and misprinted stamps

• Hundreds of pieces of combat art from more than thirty artists

• More than four hundred artist’s proof vintage photographs

The Collection supports research work pertaining to archive, and inspirational contemporary art shows that link contemporary life with the ideas inherent in the archive. Additional activities now include endangered Vietnamese traditional music and cultural traditions.

 The second initiative, the Dogma Prize in Self-Portraiture, now in its tenth year, focuses on the Vietnamese vibrant contemporary art scene.