Studio visits Zoe Yeh: 28 May 2026

On Thursday 28 May 2026, curator Zoe Yeh will conduct a number of studio visits with artists in The Hague. Zoe is the director and curator of Hong-Gah Museum in Taipei. Her visit to The Hague is part of a programme organised by Taiwanese Cultural Center (Paris), Hong-Gah Museum (Taipei), and 1646 (The Hague). She describes her areas of interest as follows:

“Zoe’s curatorial and research practice focuses on the shifting power dynamics and spatial allocations within urban environments. Through creative interventions and field-researches, she explores contemporary interpretations of place and locality. She leads the museum’s long-term community-based initiatives, utilizing art as a participatory tool to engage the local community and deepen cultural education and site-specific curatorial experimentation. She is also deeply engaged in the fields of contemporary performance and moving image.”

Registration
You can sign up until Sunday 3 May 2026 via this link for a studio visit from Zoe Yeh. We ask you to include a brief motivation (in English!), availability, as well as links to your personal website and your artist profile on www.thehagueartists.nl. The curator makes her own selection of the artists she wants to visit based on these applications, supplemented with suggestions from Stroom wherever relevant. Stroom prepares the studio visit schedule and informs the artists about their potential particpation.

Who is Zoe Yeh?
Zoe Yeh is the Director and Curator of Hong-Gah Museum in Taipei. She previously served as a curatorial assistant at the Art Tower Mito in Japan and was a board member of the artist-run space Polymer. She was also the invited guest curator of Textile Culture Net, initiated by 2023-2024.

Zoe Yeh has curated numerous solo exhibitions for emerging artists, with a particular interest in cross-disciplinary practices and narrative strategies in video art. Notable projects include The History of the Concave and the Convex – Liu Yu Solo Exhibition (2018), Commissioned – Chen I-Hsuen Solo Exhibition (2019), Seramat, the messenger over the sea – Lin Yi-Chi Solo Exhibition (2020), and Matter of Scale – Lo Sheng-Wen Solo Exhibition (2022). In 2023, she co-curated the 2023 Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition: Living-Togetherness with curator Shih-yu Hsu, further promoting dialogue and collaboration between Taiwan’s video art scene and international platforms.

In addition to its emphasis on contemporary art, Hong-Gah Museum houses a historically and aesthetically significant collection of modern Chinese embroidery. This collection centers on rare and intricate works produced between the 1970s and 1990s by the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute and the Hunan Xiang Embroidery Research Institute. The collection includes masterworks such as double-sided and multi-surface embroidery, embroidered scrolls, and pictorial embroidery pieces. In 2021, Yeh curated the exhibition Showing Stories: Images on Chinese Modern Embroidery and The Other Side: Selected Embroidery from Hong-Gah Museum Collection, which reinterpreted the museum's textile holdings through a contemporary lens.

About the studio visit program
Stroom Den Haag is committed to active, stimulating policy for art and artists in The Hague. The studio visit program is an important part of this. For this program, we invite Dutch and international curators, artists, gallery owners, and critics to visit artists registered with Stroom in their studios. These studio visits offer artists the opportunity to present their work and receive constructive feedback on their practice. The program also aims to broaden and strengthen the network of artists.