Welcome to the opening of Hussel Zhu’s solo exhibition!

Hussel Zhu is a visual artist, researcher, and short story writer. He obtained his Master’s degree in Visual Arts and Post-Contemporary Practice at AKV | St. Joost. His practice spans installation, performance, and video, alongside a long-standing but quieter engagement with drawing and painting — exploring his experience as an Asian immigrant in Europe: themes of cultural dislocation, translation failures, and fading connection to his native culture. His works have been exhibited at Rib (2026), Cobra Museum (2025), Club Solo (2024), Dutch Design Week (2023), Willem Twee (2022), Stedelijk Museum Breda (2022), and Eye Film Museum (2020).

Hussel Zhu has recently shifted his focus to painting and drawing. He has long noticed that animal figures keep appearing in his sketches — birds, frogs, foxes — and he is not entirely sure why: childhood memories, the puzzlement of encountering these animals in the city, or perhaps something about wildness — creatures that don’t naturally belong here, yet stay.