The “Green Red & Yellow” Open Archive was held on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the event (2003 – 2023). This is an opportunity for professionals, creative practitioners as well as the public to access important information and documents of the project after two decades. Thereby understanding more about contemporary art practice in Vietnam during the exciting, dynamic “open-door” era under great impacts and changes in the economic, political, social, and ideological environment after the Doi Moi (or “renovation”) period.

Open Archive is part of the APD Art Library Project, initiated and implemented by the APD Centre for Art Patronage and Development starting in 2022 with the aim to promote research and the development of art education with documents collected, restored and archived in-depth and systematically in order to provide information about Vietnamese contemporary art to professionals and the public. Key activities of the Open Archive programme include online and in-person Open Archive, talks/seminars, and workshops with topics related to the archives of APD’s Art Library.