Boi Tran Garden

Boi Tran Garden, also known as Boi Tran Art Gallery, is not only one of the pioneering privately owned art galleries in Vietnam but the very first and only one in the onetime Imperial city of Hue proud to be an exquisite international compound for art, antiques, centuries-old architecture and later Hue-era culinary culture which gave Hue its reputation as a food capital continues today. Founded in 1995, Boi Tran Garden, along with Minh Chau Art Gallery in Hanoi, has a heritage and reputation for connoisseurship and exclusive bespoke service for buying and selling art as well as offers an inviting experience for Hue's traditional fine cuisine and history-related stories. BOI TRAN:'ARTIST, CHEF AND CREATOR OF HER MAGNIFICENT GARDEN' Born in Imperial Hue City, in central Vietnam, a city that suffered more than engendered the painful political events of the 20th century, Boi Tran knew nothing of the influences – positive or negative – that nourished “the Schools”. Nestled on Thien An Hill since 1998 and relocated to Kim Son Hill in 2022, proud but comforting, where the wind frightens the centuries-old pine trees, and the bashful, even prudish, flowers triumph over the rain, a place some leading Vietnamese artists’ masterpieces housed in a more than 100-year-old mansion blended with French Indochina influences. Boi Tran’s Edenlike garden in Hue bears witness to this: diversity and elegance, but for simplicity as well, a lotus or an epiphyllum, whose flower opens during the night before quickly vanishing, communicates this. The garden would not exist without Boi Tran, yet, Boi Tran the painter would not exist without the garden. Amongst many dignitaries who have graced Boi Tran Garden is Anthony Bourdain who featured Boi Tran and her royal courses in CNN Parts Unknown in 2014.