Press Release
With Underwater Haze, Trevor Yeung is presenting his largest exhibition to date. Developed specifically for the Kestner Gesellschaft, it unfolds as a spatial constellation of artificial habitats shaped by observation and care. Drawing on his knowledge of botany and aquatic ecosystems, Yeung constructs complex systems in which palm trees, cacti, water plants, and horticultural devices are embedded into a controlled environment. A circulating aquatic cycle connects the installation’s components into a fragile choreography, where caring has a technical and emotional function.
International ongoing exhibitions
Trevor Yeung, Underwater Haze
Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover (Germany)
16.08 - 16.11.2025
The exhibition renders visible how artificial ecosystems—like relationships—are governed by routines of adjustment, attention, and latent instability. Yeung’s practice draws on the logic of enclosed environments and their social implications, asking how the design of artificial environments reflects and regulates intimacy, dependency, and forms of social proximity.
Technologies from plant cultivation, such as grow lights, scaffolding, and basins, serve as frameworks of calibrated care, where intimacy and control become inseparable. The starting point for Underwater Haze was a research process in Hanover that included visits to the botanical garden, aquarium retailers, and queer social spaces across the region. These field encounters resonate in Yeung’s installation through atmospheric and spatial shifts, suggesting habitats designed not for display but for forms of coexistence that are delicate, contingent, and quietly political. The exhibition unfolds across three zones: a greenhouse-
Exhibition 16 August -
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Trevor Yeung, Portrait with a tough good friend (Ritterocereus deficiens), 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Allen, Paris.
