East London Art Prize 2025 Winner’s Exhibition: Laisul Hoque

6 Feb-12 Apr 2026

Overview

Bow Arts is delighted to present a solo exhibition by Laisul Hoque, winner of the 2025 East London Art Prize.

Laisul Hoque is a London-based artist whose practice explores autotheory through an interdisciplinary approach. Drawing from memory and lived experience, he reflects on microhistories and their connections to larger global narratives.

Talking to Bow Arts about his upcoming exhibition he noted:

“As I look through my family’s photographs, I also notice how the settings and contexts of these images are shaped by national and international events, by the local and global politics of their time. I’m trying to understand my father and the world that shaped him. And in turn the world that shaped me as well”.

Laisul Hoque was the winner of the 2025 East London Art Prize. The winner of the prize presents the winner’s solo exhibition the following year. More on the East London Art Prize.

Hoque’s winning work, An Ode to All the Flavours (2024), is an interactive sculpture resembling an antique sodium-lit ‘Bangladeshi sweet shop’ display counter. Inspired by the artist’s earliest memory of his father sharing his favourite childhood snack, the sculpture holds spice-seasoned fried gram flour flakes and fried chickpea flour balls soaked in sugar syrup.

During the installation in the Nunnery Gallery in 2025, the snacks were replenished daily by Oitij-jo, a charity that celebrates the cultural heritage and diversity of the Bengali diaspora.

Read more about Hoque’s winning installation, his making process and his thoughts on his upcoming show in this conversation with Bow Arts for our 30th anniversary.