Graduation Show 2025: Emerging Asian Graduates

Opening Reception |  30 August (Saturday), 4-7pm

Namuso Gallery is pleased to present Graduation Show 2025: Emerging Asian Graduates, featuring six women artists of Asian background who have recently completed their studies at leading art academies in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Working across painting, installation, drawing, photography, and performance, these emerging voices offer distinct approaches to themes of memory, identity, and belonging - each shaped by layered cultural perspectives and material sensitivity. 

Though diverse in medium and method, the artists share an attentiveness to how lived experience - migration, hybridity, language, and personal history - can be translated into a visual and conceptual language that is both precise and open-ended. Their practices are marked by formal clarity, intellectual engagement, and a quiet persistence that points toward long-term inquiry.

Bo Zhang’s contemplative paintings explore perception and memory through subtle shifts in tone and form, informed by her background in cognitive psychology. Bohyeon Hwang approaches painting as a site of transformation, using layered surfaces and discarded materials to reflect on the emotional lives of objects. Choi Wong reconstructs fragmented images through thread and photopolymer etching, investigating intimacy, distance, and the act of repair. Tian Teng brings a technically accomplished photorealism to questions of social boundaries and embodiment, while Yingtong Zhou combines drawing, sound, and performance to create relational encounters shaped by presence, visibility, and lived tension. Yewon Cho contributes a quietly lyrical sensibility, capturing fleeting emotional states through soft material gestures that reflect a desire to ground the self in moments of stillness.

These artists are at a formative stage in their careers, yet their practices already demonstrate a considered engagement with material, concept, and context. Collectively, their work reflects current concerns within contemporary art - questions of visibility, displacement, and cultural translation - approached through distinct visual languages and sustained critical inquiry.

This exhibition marks the inaugural edition of Namuso Gallery’s annual initiative to support emerging Asian artists trained in the Netherlands, as part of our broader commitment to fostering dialogue between the art scenes of Asia and Europe.

Featured artists:

Bo Zhang  | Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam

Bohyeon Hwang | Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen

Choi Wong | Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague

Tian Teng | Royal Academy of Art, London

Yewon Cho | Academie Minerva, Groningen

Yingtong Zhou | HKU, Utrecht