Intertwining discourses around labyrinths, social anxiety, and post-truth, Junshu Gu’s work is rooted in rhizome theory and draws from her 13 years of experience in interdisciplinary, culture-related media work and her profound expertise. Her practice incorporates painting, sculpture, and time-based media, appearing minimal and abstract, yet formally lithesome and precise.
Hanna Tzong-Han Wu is a Taiwanese choreographer and dancer based in Los Angeles, California. The dance language that lies between Western contemporary, hip-hop, and martial arts punctuates her signature style. Hanna is most interested in creating works that reflect on humans and humanity and believes that arts are the reflection of society. In her work she blends arts, culture, society, humans, and self.
Zihao Zhou is a Chinese fashion designer based in London. His art explores the connections between the macro and the micro, revealing the hidden wonders of the world. In 2024, he took a leap of faith and launched his own eponymous brand, Illogic, in London. With a blend of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary aesthetics, Zihao aims to carve his unique mark in the fashion industry.
Tong Tong is a cutting-edge fashion designer and creative based in New York City. Tong's designs draw inspiration from a rich tapestry of influences, including personal memories, a profound passion for fashion history, and an adventurous exploration of materials. His collection Home Alone draws inspiration from a cherished childhood memory, the clandestine explorations into his parents' wardrobe.
Qibai Ting is an artist currently based in Beijing and London. Her practice mainly focuses on narrative objects and sculptural installations. Qibai is interested in stargazing activities, and she considers her works as “constellations”. Living very close to forests and mountains, she identifies with the philosophy of nature and practices within landscape.
A Young Lee is a visual artist based in Seoul, Korea. She is interested in language, communication, and emotions. Her works use a typography and new language she created. Through the concept of concealment, Lee opens a conversation and suggests that viewers discuss and think about her works in their own ways. She doesn't want her viewers to have certain answers for her works.
Beatrice Spadea is a visual artist based in Italy. With her sensibility, the artist plays with the power of images to evoke surreal scenarios. Beatrice's work breaks through space and reveals an imaginative world that brings us beyond the heaviness of reality. Reconnecting with previously explored themes, at the beginning of 2022 Beatrice has created her first NFT collection of "Masks."
Chelsea Brown is an artist and poet based in the U.S. She creates work inspired by her chronic illness and the feeling of losing autonomy and being out of control of her body, mind, and connection to others. Most of her artwork features the female form, paired with symbols that narrate power and vulnerability, but ultimately empowerment.
Yien Xu is a Chinese photographer currently based in Los Angeles, California. Art is a tool for the artist to explore the world. It allows him to understand how the world runs, form the whole structure of the world in his mind, and then express his perception of the world via art. Inspired by this, his latest works shifted to a surrealist style based on reality yet differed from it, conveying a false sense of truth.
Phyllis Wong is a visual artist and architect based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The Factory is an ongoing series that serves to critique the effects of industrial dairy farming through a collection of narrated still life. Its compositions showcase information and data related to the production in the years 2019 and 2020 and translate various specifications and statistics, illustrated by coloured rings.
Jerry Helle is a 22-year old Cameroonian artist, currently based between Germany, Cameroon, the USA and Portugal. His work represents contrasting value systems, the dynamics of his family’s history, postcolonial theories. Working primarily with abstract painting as the deliberate reduction to the essential, Helle depicts an understanding of his physical, spiritual, and emotional reality.
Maggie Wen 温馨 works mainly with the combination of interview research-based text and photography. She draws a lot of her inspiration from intercultural research. She explores the relationship between words and the environment to understand culture, politics, economics’ influence over human life, and the driving forces behind decisions.
Yulia Artemyeva is a photo-artist from Russia. She creates symbolic series of works that often balance between portrait and still life. The main theme of Yulia's art is death and memories people have of the already gone phenomena. In her latest series, Ballerina and Flowers, she compare flowers to the poses of a classical dance ballerina.
Visual artist Suridh Das-Hassan focus on cultural and ethnic identity as well as memory and movement, particularly within the urban environment. Traditionally, Suridh's work has been about documentation, investigation, and collaboration. His ongoing series Reconstruction Of Self (i) is an intensely personal journey through family, power, colonialism and identity.
Akane, also known as akamidget, is a visual artist whose background lies in video games. Throughout her career, she's worked on numerous video game trailers, later expanding into the commercial realm through online and TV adverts. How we, from our electronic realm, relate to our primordial ancestors at the root of humanity's multi-layered narrative is a question that will continue to drive the artist's work.
Nora Lagström Jebara is a young female artist of dual Palestinian and Swedish identities, currently residing in Lund, Sweden. Her latest series, Mentally Occupied, is a collection of digital visuals. The visuals expose different mental disorders, which are universal disorders that humans experience regardless of nationality, ethnicity, or geographic location.
Rick Bogacz is a landscapes and street photographer based in Toronto, Canada. Influenced by painters such as Edward Hopper and Canadian Christopher Pratt, Rick’s images will show lone figures walking through the frame or standing alone contemplating their surroundings. Other photographs will emphasize the natural elements themselves but in a solitary way.
Dave Hanson is an artist with a lifelong passion for the medium of photography. He has been intrigued and inspired by everything, from the uniqueness of the human face and body to the historic footprints left by man on the land, or the beauty of the landscape throughout the United States and the world. Dave’s photographs represent the outcome of his vision as translated through the passion of his soul.
Oleg Tsyba is a Russian artist and doctor. He started creating his artworks four years ago, and since then, painting has become his main passion. In his artworks, Oleg explores the form in its primary manifestation. Most often, the subject of his work is ancient mythology. These themes are always relevant to Humanity - they tell us about love, sex, passion, and death. And they inspire Oleg to create.
Oxana Kovalchuk is an artist from Kazakhstan, currently living and working in New York/New Jersey. Oxana's body of work "Making Fools Pray To God" metamorphoses Christian saints from her private arsenal into contemporary 'deities' revered by the masses, people at large, under new guises. She sees that the spiritual 'links' today have an equivalent in the 'realities' provided us through digital screens.
Kyle Yip is a Canadian, JUNO Award-Nominated hypersurrealist artist internationally recognized for his highly accurate creations of original visual art, electronic music, and films from his dreams. Yip's paintings are highly accurate creations from an ongoing series envisioned during recurring REM dreams of the artist. The series explores the Gestalt and spirit of art vicariously through Yip's dreams.
