The Gallery — Est. 2014
A gallery built on patience and provenance.
NOEMA began as a single room and a conviction: that a collection is composed slowly, work by work, with full knowledge of where each piece has been. A decade on, the conviction has not changed.
Saigon · Singapore · By appointment
Philosophy
Few works, fully known.
We represent fewer artists than most galleries our size, and we know their work completely. Every painting, bronze and edition that enters the programme arrives with its history intact — exhibition records, studio documentation, an unbroken line of ownership. We would rather decline a remarkable work than offer one we cannot fully account for.
We would rather place one work perfectly than ten works quickly.
The same restraint shapes how we sell. There are no countdowns here, no scarcity theatre. A first conversation at NOEMA usually concerns the work itself — its making, its context, the artist's trajectory — and only later, if at all, its price.
This is slower than the market prefers. It is also why collections built with us tend to hold together: each acquisition was chosen, not sold.
Mai An Nguyen
Founder & Director
The Space
Two rooms, one rhythm.
( drag )( swipe )
Chronology
Twelve years, kept in order.
The first room
NOEMA opens in a converted printing house in Saigon, with six artists and one exhibition a season.
First museum placement
A painting from the programme enters a public institutional collection in Southeast Asia.
The catalogue practice
The gallery begins publishing a documented plate for every work it handles — now standard across the programme.
Digital provenance
NOEMA authenticates its first digital editions, pairing each with chain-verified provenance.
Singapore salon
A second viewing room opens by appointment on Duxton Road, Singapore.
Today
Twenty-two artists, two cities, and the same rule: nothing leaves without its history.
The Team
The people behind the walls.
Daniel Okafor
Lin Yu-Chen
Hugo Marchand
As featured in
- Art Review Asia
- Monocle
- Tatler
- The Art Newspaper
- Ocula
- Wallpaper*
- ArtAsiaPacific
- Frieze
Visit the gallery
Visit
Saigon
12 Đồng Khởi, District 1Hồ Chí Minh City, VietnamTue — Sat, 10:00 — 18:00Singapore
47 Duxton RoadSingapore 089511By appointment onlyThe gallery opens by appointment — and the door is always worth knocking.