Bow Open x Mile End Community Project presents ‘to belong’ , to Our annual Bow Open exhibition platforms work from Bow Arts artists, showing new and innovative work selected by a different guest curator each year. This year, the Nunnery Gallery is working with young curators from Mile End Community Project (MCP) to deliver a truly multi-perspective and dynamic show. Rômulo Avi, Lesser Vehicles II (Hermit) (detail), 2025 Featuring Rômulo Avi, Joy Baek, Mark Beldan, Victoria Burgher, Eleanor Burkett, Tom Coates, Chloe Cooper, Samuel Donagh, Ioana Elecfi, Roxana Gutila, Lucile Haefflinger, Ruiji Han, Yifan He, Jonny Kemp, Niki Kohandel, John Lord, Maria Stella Lydaki, Nicola McEvoy, Shrub Mostert, Alison P. O’Reilly, Charlotte Parr Burman, Sophie Popper, Anaïs Serres, Tara Versey, Denisa Zajacova ‘to belong’ What does it mean to belong? Is it a place, a person, a feeling? Is it an individual experience, or something we share? What happens when that sense of belonging is lost, and how do we find it again? This year’s Bow Open brings together work from 25 artists centred around the theme of belonging, selected by young curators Mara Ahmed, Justine Enyan, Eleanor Getting and Lydia Lott with Mile End Community Project. Showcasing artists from across Bow Arts’ community, the exhibition presents many artforms, including painting, print, sculpture and video, all a testament to how belonging is a practice, rooted in place, identity, memory and community.
