Upcoming Solo Exhibition at Foam Amsterdam

I’m very excited to announce my upcoming solo exhibition at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. Titled Garden of Entanglement, the show brings together several of my recent projects — Across the OceanScent from Heaven, and Garden of Entanglement — into a multi-sensory installation that explores entangled themes of migration, memory, the body, and the fragile relationship between healing and violence.

These projects investigate the interwoven themes of migration, the body, and acts of healing and violence — explored through photography, video, sculpture, sound, and data-based installation. Across each work, I seek to trace the fragile imprints of memory and resilience embedded within both human and non-human narratives.

Still from "Scent from Heaven". 2023. Hiền Hoàng. Camera: Duc Cuong Nguyen.
Still from “Scent from Heaven”. 2023. Hiền Hoàng. Camera: Duc Cuong Nguyen.
A scan from the Photo album of the artist's late aunt. © Courtesy of the artist's family. @Hiền Hoàng.
A scan from the Photo album of the artist’s late aunt. © Courtesy of the artist’s family. @Hiền Hoàng.

This exhibition is also the result of my ongoing collaboration with the University of Kassel – Experimental and Digital Design and Construction (EDEK), where I’ve been developing new material-based approaches that merge organic processes with digital data. In this context, I began working with materials such as mycelium, steel, aluminium, and copper sulfate, experimenting with chemical corrosion, crystallisation, and controlled fungal growth as techniques of transformation.

These explorations allow the artworks to evolve through time and reaction, highlighting processes of decay and resilience. Data—collected from environmental or bodily interactions—is translated into motion and sound, embedded into the material body of the work. The result is an installation that resonates physically and sonically, inviting the viewer into a space of entangled perception.

Artwork from "Garden of Entanglement". UV print on acidified and corroded steel and aluminium plates. 2025. Hiền Hoàng
Artwork from “Garden of Entanglement”. UV print on acidified and corroded steel and aluminium plates. 2025. Hiền Hoàng
Artist with the mycelium sculpture, in collaboration with University Kassel. Material: Mycelium, Wood, Shaking devices, Amplifiers, Fans. 2025. Hiền Hoàng
Artist with the mycelium sculpture, in collaboration with University Kassel. Material: Mycelium, Wood, Shaking devices, Amplifiers, Fans. 2025. Hiền Hoàng

I also want to say again my gratitude to Aldeide Delgado for nominating me, to the jury board of the Paul Huf Award: John Fleetwood , Kathrin Schönegg , Anna-Alix Koffie, Sunyoung Kim, and Felipe Romero Beltrán, for choosing me for the award. And once again to all my artist fellows, friends and partners who worked with me on those projects.

Opening Performance

The opening on 5 June will include a special performance in collaboration with Ito Collective, further expanding the exhibition’s investigation of embodied memory and sensory translation.

Graphic for the solo exhibition "Garden of Entanglement" of Hiền Hoàng, at the FOAM Photography Museum, in Amsterdam. Exhibition runs from 5 June to 10 September 2025, curated by Katy Hundermark.