Tracing Kiều is an independent art and literary initiative in dialogue with The Tale of Kiều — widely regarded as Vietnam’s most celebrated literary work.

How can a 200-year-old poem resonate with the Vietnamese diaspora today?

Tracing Kiều began with that question.

Led from Berlin, the initiative brings together artists, writers, scholars, and cultural practitioners from the Vietnamese diaspora and from Vietnam. It unfolds across three formats: The Kiều Complex (exhibition), the Kiều Salon (public program), and The Kiều Reader (anthology).