KABK 2026 alumni present OYO-10 at Haagse Kunstkring

Fourteen alumni from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK), come together for the tenth edition of OYO (On Your Own), an annual exhibition initiated by the Haagse Kunstkring, inviting recent graduates to showcase their work together. Over a decade, OYO carries with it a growing history, connecting emerging artists from the academy with the public and the wider Hague art scene.

Our individual practices have developed across different departments, backgrounds, and disciplines. As a collective group, we find ourselves on the precipice between student life and the professional world. OYO is a celebration of all the labour and time that has brought us here. The works move and are static, are wet and dry, are structured and disordered, cover entire walls and invite you to look at absence. Gathered under one roof, they offer a temporary glimpse into the many ways artistic work can take shape, while we organise the exhibition and raise a glass to the occasion together.

Opening  Thursday, October 22 from 18:00 to 22:00 hours
We are excited to welcome you.

Exhibition Dates: 21 October 2026 – 31 October 2026

Participants:

Tom Allsop, Eva Coviello, Roland Farkaš, Yicheng Geng, Beerend Honing, Roni(a)Johansson, Ilja Kolosovs, Simcha Ziya Moïse, Luca Oosterloo, Lino Podesta, Aga Rymuszka , Soft rebellion, Arthur Wagenaar, Esmée Witsel

ARTIST STATEMENTS:

Eva Coviello

Eva is a spatial designer and storyteller from Italy. Her work is driven by a curiosity about how domestic and sacred environments shape identity, both personal and collective, and the ways these spaces hold our stories. She gathers these narratives, interprets them and translates them into spatial form.

The material installation Sacred in Motion, Wax Keeps It Still (Bitonto, Puglia, Italy) explores the tension between Catholic ritual traditions in Bitonto and the changing relationship between younger generations and sacred space. Through wax-hardened fabric figures frozen in gestures from the Santi Medici procession, the installation preserves the movement of the ritual while questioning the spatial structures that continue to shape it.

Roland Farkas

My practice explores inherited memory, survival knowledge, and identity through sculpture, weaving, and performance. Drawing from Roma craft traditions and intergenerational stories, I work with willow, copper, found objects, and textiles to transform materials of survival into forms that carry memory, connection, and resilience. I see making as a way of holding, reshaping, and passing histories through the Hands.

Simcha Ziya Moïse
Simcha (b. 2001, Netherlands) is a 25-year-old artist and designer, born in Utrecht and based in The Hague. Her practice explores image-making through structure, repetition, and visual experimentation. Working across print, objects, and image-making, she investigates how frameworks and limitations shape creative decisions and open up new possibilities.

Esmée Witsel

I am an interdisciplinary artist and writer; I research what happens when stories outgrow the paper that they are on. With animatronics, sculpture and installations I create worlds where the undertones and properties of materials can take over the narrative of a story. My practice is built around the role of imagination and her role in making sense of the world; when stolen boredom weighs heavy on the imagination, I encourage people to look up with wonder.

Luca Oosterloo

whoislvca (b. 1999, Italy) reflects on the tension between biological memory, which is forgetful, and computational memory, which is not. Through the use of images, software, generative text and sound, he blurs the boundaries between humans and digital systems, exploring what is lost when the ability to forget is replaced by the inability of those systems to do so.

Ilja Kolosovs
Ilja Kolosovs is an artist whose practice explores the relationships between digital culture, data, and society. Through artistic research, he repurposes existing technologies and platforms to examine the infrastructures that mediate everyday experience. By redirecting these systems from their intended use, his work reveals what narratives are hidden within them. 

Digital mapping is a recurring focus of his practice. He examines how mapping platforms shape our understanding of place and what political and cultural assumptions are embedded within them. His work explores the gaps between physical environments and their data-driven representations, tracing how these platforms influence the ways we experience place.

Beerend Honing

I am Beerend Honing, a 23 year old artist working with the medium of photography, currently based in Amsterdam. I am interested in the relationship between time, memory, and photography, and in the ways they shape and transform one another. Through my introspective, darkroom practice, where I manipulate my images through a cyclical process of printing and reprinting, I explore the instability of time and memory. With the work I aim to make space for feeling and absorption, in the belief that art, in its moments of absorption can isolate one self from the weight of time and be a source of beauty and solace.

Roni(a)johansson

roni(a) johansson (b. 1996 in Älvdalen, Sweden) creates “climates”: spatial environments of installation and performance where organic sculptural forms meet altered domestic and industrial objects. Working primarily with latex, metal, fabric, rust, and water, their process-driven practice is informed by queer and neurodivergent perspectives and grounded in repetition and (maintenance) labour. The work brings bodies, materials, and environments into mutual dependence, allowing friction between different systems and discomfort to become part of a continuous relationship.

Lino Podesta

lino is a human that dont like to put . and , he likes to work with nothing he likes to work with everything he likes to start where it ends and ends where it starts on the paper hes mentioned as an architect a sort of dude that draws life from above and speculate creation by calculus and math behave as a spy within the large box a sort of guy that got a chance to put his eyes on something dirty about space and architecture and made something that goes at it antipode an architect that works without architecture

Yicheng Geng

Yicheng is an artist whose practice explores states of in-betweenness. Her current work focuses on cultural identity, shaped by her experience between China and the Netherlands. Working across textile, ceramic, glass and historical imagery, she examines how images and narratives shift as they travel across cultures and time. She approaches misunderstanding and mistranslation not as errors, but as generative processes, using fragmentation and reconstruction to create new relationships between familiar forms. Her work blurs boundaries between cultures, histories and material languages, allowing different perspectives to coexist without resolving their contradictions.

Arthur Wagenaar

In a digital age where self-doubt and meaninglessness is felt through the endless presented perfection, today’s youth needs to counter this by repeating its own ideas: the father of learning. Look to your own soil, to grow your own ideas. My practice resembles the repetitive and dedicated labour of monastic life, highlighting the importance of process, creativity not as sudden inspiration but as ongoing commitment.

soft rebellion

founded by emma lobina and noah warmer, between the hague and brussels, soft rebellion is a collective of world builders, shapeshifters and collectors of dreams. with textiles as anchor, we build bridges between fantasy and reality — working with and around spaces and places (splaces) to create worlds where people can see themselves reflected, and where our systems of oppression, disconnection and habits of othering are held up to critical light. ultimately aiming for soft splaces of co-existence and rebellion

Aga Rymuszka

My practice is rooted in the theatrical, the grotesque, carnival and puppetry. In my work, I search for where life and art meet and multiply it by ten, deriving from the carnival traditions of excess, play and absurdity. I am interested in exploring the ‘popular culture of laughter’ that historically allowed people to subvert the existing status quo. I am not into what’s beautiful, nor am I looking for the truth or grand ideals. I want to show the ambivalence, the in-between, what is strange, eerie, and out of place, the fever dream.

Tom Allsop   

Reproduction becomes an aesthetic condition. I focus on the quiet failures that occur through repetition, when an image is pushed toward uniformity but never fully arrives. Tools for repeated accuracy regulate movement and discipline the hand, asking it to perform a mechanical gesture through repetition and restraint. As the hand adapts, it begins to mimic the machine. Gesture becomes learned, rehearsed, and efficient. Yet this conformity is unstable. Fatigue, impatience, and restlessness accumulate, allowing subtle variations to surface. These deviations are not interruptions but evidence: the human emerging from a framework designed to contain it, where precision becomes a continuous negotiation.