Hoa Dung Clerget

We’re proud to be part of Backyard Biennial: East, a free, 8-week festival in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery and 40+ local partners across East London (15 July - 6 September 2026). Join us for an exciting programme of exhibitions, performances, workshops and more, celebrating the histories, communities and creative practices that shape the East End. On 10 July 2026, SLQS Gallery opens the group exhibition No Place Like Home III curated by Hoa Dung Clerget and KV Duong and featuring works by Hoa Dung Clerget, KV Duong, Moi Tran, Alvin Lương, Hiền Hoàng and Nguyễn Thuỷ Tiên. The third part in this series of exhibitions centres around an interior garden as a place of exchange. No Place Like Home is a collective exploration of home, focusing on the Vietnamese diasporic house as an intimate, cultural, and political space. In addition to a traditional exhibition, the project centres on workshops, gatherings, and discussions, inviting the public and local communities to reflect and share experiences. The exhibition is supported by SLQS Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, the Vietnam Art Collection (VAC) and the Circles of Art. More information is coming soon! Save the date for the opening: 10 July 2026! Read more via the link in our bio Image: detail of Family Portrait (2026) by KV Duong #BackyardBiennial #EastEnd #NoPlaceLikeHome #VietnameseCommunity

In Clerget’s installation , the colour red present in the banquet chairs, the curtain and the performance stage placed in the gallery pay homage to the banquet hall, a place of celebration and gathering amongst the Vietnamese diaspora. Hoa Dung Clerget The Banquet Hall (2025) Chairs, stage, curtains, sound equipment Dimensions variable On view until 21 February 2026 as part of The Trung Sisters Open Thursday - Saturday 12-6pm and by appointment 20 Club Row, London E2 7EY Installation images by Joanna Wierzbicka #SLQSgallery #HoaDungClerget #TheTrungSisters

Amazing Nails by Hoa Dung Clerget is a 7-minute musical documentary set in a Vietnamese nail salon in East London. It follows Sophia, a nail technician who, at the end of her day, dreams of becoming one of the Trưng sisters. While singing Hờn Anh Giận Em, a love song marked by the Vietnam war, she reverses traditional roles: the woman is no longer the one who waits, but the one who fights, asserts her freedom, and claims her power. The film transforms stereotypes of Asian femininity into a creative force, offering a new, proud, and autonomous vision. Hoa Dung Clerget Amazing Nails (2025) Single-channel digital video 6 mins 53 secs Direction Hoa Dung Clerget Cast Trưng Trắc — Sophia Lưu Trưng Nhị — Sophia Lưu Pianist — Christopher Lưu Client — Sarah Le Quang Sang Camera Sam Du Bois Editing Alexis Clerget Music & Arrangement Sophia Lưu Christopher Lưu Sound Design 50Berges Special Thanks Vanessa and the Amazing Nails team _______________________ Hoa Dung Clerget | The Trung Sisters On view until 21 February 2026 Open Thursday - Saturday 12-6pm and by appointment 20 Club Row, London E2 7EY Installation images by Joanna Wierzbicka All works are available to collect. Please email [email protected] for all enquiries. #SLQSgallery #HoaDungClerget #TheTrungSisters #film #NailArt

Thrilled to share some images of the new works I produced at the end of last year. A series of new UV gel painting title Ornament. The Trung Sisters Solo show at SLQS @slqsgallery Open Thursday-Saturday 12-6pm and by appointment Images by Joanna Wierzbicka

SLQS invites you to its first Supper Club. Join artist Hoa Dung Clerget and Sarah Le Quang Sang, Founder of SLQS Gallery, for an intimate evening limited to 10 guests, where food, art and conversation come together. To celebrate Tết Vietnamese New Year, our inaugural Supper Club takes place on Wednesday 25 February 2026. The evening begins at 7pm with a welcome drink and a guided walkthrough of the exhibition, followed by a Vietnamese banquet, accompanied by wine, beer and soft drinks. The evening is set against Hoa Dung Clerget: The Trung Sisters, a solo exhibition that offers a contemporary reimagining of women identity within the Vietnamese diaspora. Through this new body of work, Clerget proposes an alternative subjectivity, a counter-narrative in which feminine power circulates through gesture, voice and image. If you’d like to welcome the Year of the Horse together, reserve your seat at the table. Tickets are £85 and available via the link in bio. #Supperclub #LunarNewYear #SLQSgallery

Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate the opening of The Trung Sisters by Hoa Dung Clerget. Performance by Hoa Dung Clerget with singer Lyly Doan and guitarist Doc Ngo activating Clerget’s installation ‘The Banquet Hall’. Filmed and edited by Bilal Singh. The exhibition is now on view until 21 February at SLQS Gallery. Hoa Dung Clerget | The Trung Sisters 23 January - 27 February 2026 20 Club Row, London E2 7EY “As part of my solo exhibition, Lyly Doan will perform at the opening, activating the installation The Banquet Hall. A well-known figure within the Vietnamese community, Lyly Doan presents an intentionally simple, almost ordinary performance that inscribes a presence in the gallery space. Ephemeral by nature, the performance evokes notions of presence and absence. It draws from memories of my childhood weekends spent at community festivities and ballroom dancing halls. In the manner of Félix González-Torres, the sung performance affirms a body that appears and disappears, engaging the viewer as a witness to a moment that is at once nostalgic and fleeting. “ - Hoa Dung Clerget #SLQSGallery #HoaDungClerget #TheTrungSisters

Opening tonight! We can’t wait to see you for the opening of the Trung SIsters by Hoa Dung Clerget from 6-8pm at 20 Club Row, London E2 7EY. There will be live performances by Lyly Doan at 6:45pm and 7:30pm Free but limited spaces (RSVP Link in bio) Installation images by Joanna Wierzbicka #SLQSgallery #HoaDungClerget

Join us for a live performance this Thursday for the opening of The Trung Sisters, Hoa Dung Clerget’s new solo exhibition at SLQS Gallery. “As part of my solo exhibition, Lyly Doan will perform at the opening, activating the installation The Banquet Hall. A well-known figure within the Vietnamese community, Lyly Doan presents an intentionally simple, almost ordinary performance that inscribes a presence in the gallery space. Ephemeral by nature, the performance evokes notions of presence and absence. It draws from memories of my childhood weekends spent at community festivities and ballroom dancing halls. In the manner of Félix González-Torres, the sung performance affirms a body that appears and disappears, engaging the viewer as a witness to a moment that is at once nostalgic and fleeting. “ - Hoa Dung Clerget Hoa Dung Clerget | The Trung Sisters Private View | Thursday 22 January 6-8pm Live Performance at 6:45pm and 7:30pm Free but limited spaces (RSVP Link in bio) SLQS Gallery, 20 Club Row, London E2 7EY #SLQSGallery #HoaDungClerget #LylyDoan

SLQS Gallery is delighted to announce the representation of artist Hoa Dung Clerget. After having shown Clerget’s works in our group exhibitions A Landscape of Chance (2024), Only Your Name (2025) and MEGA Art Fair in Milan (2025), we are pleased to present her new solo exhibition The Trung Sisters opening on 22 January in our gallery in Shoreditch. Hoa Dung Clerget (b. France) lives and works in London. Her sculptural and installation-based practice explores the labour, aesthetics and social realities of immigrant women, often through the lens of nail art subculture. Drawing from Homi Bhabha’s concept of the ‘liminal’, Clerget investigates how diasporic identities are shaped in spaces of cultural negotiation and reinvention. Using everyday materials such as gel nail polish, she creates tactile works that blur the boundaries between art, beauty and subculture. Clerget holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2021) and a BA Hons in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins (2019). She is the recipient of Jerwood Art New Work Fund (2022) and Finalist of Circa x Dazed Class of 2021. Recent exhibitions include the solo exhibition Durian Revolution (Studio Chapple, 2023) and the group exhibitions: Myths, Dreams and New Realities (Saatchi/Bagri Foundation, 2025), Only Your Name (SLQS Gallery, 2025), Fringe (Labs Gallery, Bologna, 2025), Porous Abstraction (Alma Pearl, 2025), tươi sống (Harlesden High Street, 2024), Beauty Tech Art Spa (Cornershop, 2023) and Paradise (Harlesden High Street, Lecce, 2022). Join us for the private view on Thursday 22 January 6-8pm with a live performance (RSVP link in bio) Images: Chinoiserie (Three Girls) (2025), Only Your Name, SLQS Gallery and Myth, Dreams and Realities, Saatchi/Bagri Foundation The Worker Figurine (2025), Only Your Name, SLQS Gallery and Desanchantee, Spiaggia Libera and Scroll Gallerie Essence (2025), Porous Abstraction, Alma Pearl Gallery In The Mud / Trong đẩm (2024) with Koa Pham, A Landscape of Chance, SLQS Gallery Durian Revolution (2023), solo exhibition at Studio Chapple The Trace (2022) at Christie’s (Un/Sense) #SLQSGallery #HoaDungClerget

Next Exhibition at SLQS Gallery! The solo exhibition of Hoa Dung Clerget: The Trung Sisters presents a new contemporary narrative of the construction of the identity of the women from the Vietnamese diaspora. Presented together as an installation in the gallery, a new series of large triptychs of perspex panels painted with nail art materials titled Ornament (The Trung Sisters) is shown alongside Amazing Nails a short musical documentary film. A live performance is also being performed on the opening night. Hoa Dung Clerget | The Trung Sisters 23 January - 27 February 2026 20 Club Row, London E2 7EY Join us for the private view on Thursday 22 December 6-8pm with a live performance (RSVP link in bio) #SLQSGallery #HoaDungClerget

[Meet the artist] Désenchantée 28.08 → 15.11.25 @hdclerget Les sculptures d’Hoa Dung Clerget réalisées à partir de vernis gel utilisé dans les salons de manucure dévoilent différentes représentations fétichisées largement véhiculées par la diaspora vietnamienne.  _ Hoa Dung Clerget, Chinoiserie (Landscape with peacocks), 2025, vernis gel UV, gel UV de construction, résine UV, poudre pour ongles / UV gel polish, UV gel builder, UV resin, Nail Powder, 18 x 21 x 5 cm. @scroll_galerie #marseille #contemporaryart #malmousque #spiaggialiberagallery #scrollgallery #hoadungclerget Crédits photos @greggyodel

End of an amazing shoot at Amazing Nail in Walthamstow, Coppermill, with a dream team. Thank you all for making this day so special. I can’t wait to show you the film. See you in January! @amazing.nailscoppermill @sophialuu22 @chris.packets @sarahlqs @samofthewoods