INTERVIEW | Mingxuan Zhang

INTERVIEW | Mingxuan Zhang

Mingxuan Zhang's artistic practice centres on the fluidity and de-symbolisation of the body, exploring the complex relationship between the body, space, and gaze through distortion and absence. She creatively incorporates ready-made fabrics from the real world into her paintings, capturing the transition between the “virtual” and the “real.” She currently lives between London and Hong Kong.

INTERVIEW | Ruoyu Gong

INTERVIEW | Ruoyu Gong

Ruoyu Gong is a New York-based painter. His work delves into the complexity of the human psyche in the theme of personal symbolism. Ruoyu sees painting as a way to uncover the veiled tensions within his psyche. Through this distillation process, he navigates the labyrinth of his psychological landscape that often lies dormant beneath the surface of daily life.

INTERVIEW | Jie Chen

INTERVIEW | Jie Chen

Jie Chen is a Chinese illustrator and fashion designer. She specializes in interdisciplinary storytelling, seamlessly blending fashion, illustration, bookmaking, and 3D digital fashion design to create immersive narratives. Her project NEO·GENESIS reimagines creation, replacing traditional notions of divine design with chaos and accident.

INTERVIEW | Mahta Salehi

INTERVIEW | Mahta Salehi

Mahta Salehi is an Iranian artist currently living in the US. In her recent paintings investigate psychological transformation and the tension between confinement and freedom by combining abstraction and figuration and using symbolic imagery. In her work, she uses experimental techniques and layered compositions to encourage viewers to interact with the shifting nature of psychological landscapes.

INTERVIEW | Robert Claus

INTERVIEW | Robert Claus

An emerging photographer with a background in translation and music, Robert Claus has been exploring drawing, composition, and theatre since an early age. He tends to draw on still life for his subjects, but has also explored both urban and rural landscapes, as well as portraiture. He has produced several book-length curated projects ranging from theatre work to abstract still-life compositions.

INTERVIEW | Yuyang (Lily) Wei

INTERVIEW | Yuyang (Lily) Wei

Yuyang (Lily) Wei is a Chinese-New Zealander artist currently living and working in London. Drawing on her own experiences growing up between New Zealand and China, a topic that concerns Yuyang's artworks is the identity crisis of Third-Culture Kids. Paintings in this section depict Yuyang's personal feelings of being part of a diaspora.

INTERVIEW | Mosaz (Zijun Zhao)

INTERVIEW | Mosaz (Zijun Zhao)

Mosaz (Zijun Zhao)'s work is based on her understanding of traditional culture as an Asian individual—an understanding shaped by what she has heard, seen, and deeply felt since childhood. She focuses on symbols, imagery, and rituals embedded in cultural memory, reconstructing them through a personal lens. This is how she expresses the complexity of her inner spiritual world.

INTERVIEW | Rafael de la Noceda

INTERVIEW | Rafael de la Noceda

Noceda is a contemporary mixed-media artist whose work is based on elements of abstract expressionism, minimalism, and conceptual art. His strong foundation in graphic arts, together with a deep fascination with anthropology and philosophy, shaped his unique artistic voice. Drawing from this multidisciplinary background, Noceda crafts compositions that challenge viewers' preconceptions, pointing out established dualities.

INTERVIEW | Chu Ling-Jung & Tang Zi-Xian

INTERVIEW | Chu Ling-Jung & Tang Zi-Xian

Chu Ling-Jung & Tang Zi-Xian are both Taiwanese artists. They are both based in Taipei, where they live and work. Their collaborative project, Clearing the Text, describes the dyslexic patient's intense desire to comprehend text, the despair of being unable to read, and the attempt to regain the ability to read by integrating their body into the text through various methods.

INTERVIEW | Filip Moszant

INTERVIEW | Filip Moszant

Filip Moszant's work is an intuitive rebellion against imposed socialization. At the core of his practice lies a deep engagement with form, texture, and movement. His paintings pulse with energy, shaped by unseen forces. Colours collide violently or dissolve into meditative softness, creating a balance between control and chaos. His acrylic markers and felt pens generate rhythmic gestures.

INTERVIEW | Marcus Brown

INTERVIEW | Marcus Brown

Marcus Brown is a sculptor, painter, inventor, musician, and educator. Brown developed a form of painting called Electro-sonic Painting in which the artist paints with sound/data-producing instruments. HIs mission is to create artworks that educate the public about important issues while transcending both media and societal boundaries.

INTERVIEW | Anastasia Egonyan

INTERVIEW | Anastasia Egonyan

Anastasia Egonyan is a visual artist of Ukrainian and Armenian descent based in Berlin. With over a decade of experience in photography, she has expanded her practice to incorporate textiles and found objects, creating a dynamic interdisciplinary approach. Her art reflects a journey of reconciling fragmented ancestry and nomadic experiences in the search for "home" and identity.

INTERVIEW | Hanqi Li

INTERVIEW | Hanqi Li

Hanqi Li is a practice-based media artist based between London (UK) and Shenzhen (CN). Her work primarily engages with interactive art, narrative films, generative art, and 3D rendering, while her research explores media archaeology, speculative fiction, and the intricate relationship between nature and technology, with a focus on environmental issues.

INTERVIEW | Anna M. Masiul Gozdecka

INTERVIEW | Anna M. Masiul Gozdecka

Anna M. Masiul Gozdecka reates abstract and realistic compositions, sometimes full of colour and optimism, sometimes in grayscale with an accent, to honour all colours at their noblest. Her work is inextricably linked with nature and its perfection - the multitude of forms, textures, connections, the diversity of the landscape and the game light and shadow.

INTERVIEW | Jason Fairchild

INTERVIEW | Jason Fairchild

Jason Fairchild is an international fine artist based in the USA, known for his dynamic large-scale abstract paintings. His work bursts with bold colours and expressive brushstrokes, creating immersive compositions that evoke movement, energy, and emotion. Drawing inspiration from the raw spontaneity of abstract expressionism, Fairchild uses sweeping gestures and layered textures.

INTERVIEW | Dr. Pamela Chrabieh - Kulturnest | Embodied Realities: The Body as a Canvas, The Body as a Battlefield

INTERVIEW | Dr. Pamela Chrabieh - Kulturnest | Embodied Realities: The Body as a Canvas, The Body as a Battlefield

What does it mean to exist in a body? How does the body witness personal and collective histories, political struggles, and evolving identities? Embodied Realities, a hybrid collective exhibition curated by Dr. Pamela Chrabieh at Kulturnest and in the metaverse, showcases the work of emerging, mid-way, and established artists, each bringing their unique perspective to the theme of the body.

INTERVIEW | Dijun Sha

INTERVIEW | Dijun Sha

Dijun Sha (Shine Sha) is a London-based multimedia artist, jewellery designer, and curator whose work bridges the gap between traditional craftsmanship, digital innovation, and curatorial storytelling. Dijun’s practice is deeply rooted in narrative-driven creation, transforming jewellery from a wearable object into an interactive, conceptual medium.

INTERVIEW | Yiyang Chen

INTERVIEW | Yiyang Chen

Yiyang Chen is a PhD candidate in fine art at the Glasgow School of Art and an artist working across painting, moving images, ceramics, performance and writing. Delving into themes such as the monstrous, feminism, the erotic, flux, touch, gaze, the archive, and the non-binary, Yiyang Chen's research and practice explore the liveness and fluidity of bodies and material.

INTERVIEW | Celine Lam

INTERVIEW | Celine Lam

Celine Lam (b.1999) is a mixed-media artist in Brooklyn. Her current practice focuses on the polarities under the context of all matters. She uses marks and abstract images to depict contemporary issues which echo her generation. Lam often works with mixed media paper sculptures and paintings employing calligraphy practice paper.