As autumn breaks in northern Vietnam, a leading hotel in the mountains will be showcasing local artists.
Hotel de la Coupole Sapa – MGallery Collection will present Upon the Mountain, Down on the Hill from September 25 to October 25, 2026, featuring 28 works by five contemporary Vietnamese artists.
Presented in collaboration with Hanoi Studio Gallery, Upon the Mountain, Down on the Hill will feature works by Pham Thai Binh, Nguyen Ngoc Thanh, Nguyen Quoc Trung, Pham Tra My and Pham Thuy Tien in the hotel’s lobby-level Art Gallery Area.
Rather than treating the landscape simply as scenery, the exhibition explores its relationship with people, memory and emotion.
The five featured artists bring experience across painting, sculpture, traditional lacquer, silk and large-scale installations.
“At harvest time, Sapa’s landscape changes almost by the day, encouraging people to pause and look more closely,” said a representative of Hotel de la Coupole Sapa – MGallery Collection, who mysteriously was not identified in the media release. Very strange.
“This exhibition extends that experience into the hotel. Visitors can encounter the mountains and terraces outside, then see the different memories and emotions they inspire in the work of five Vietnamese artists. It feels entirely at home in a place where art and storytelling are already part of the journey.”
The exhibition belongs naturally within Hotel de la Coupole’s theatrical interiors.
Conceived by maverick architect and designer Bill Bensley, the hotel imagines a meeting between the French haute couture of the 1920s and 1930s and the colours, patterns and craft traditions of Sapa’s ethnic communities.
Paintings, antiques, fashion pieces and collected objects appear throughout the property, placing the new works within a wider encounter with art, history and place.
