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.
Andreea is an award-winning architectural & landscape architectural designer and researcher. "After Plastics: The Gardens of the Glacial Foreland" is a transitional landscape – from glacial to post-glacial. The project questions the potential emergence of microplastic particles in the most pristine places on Earth over the next two centuries and the imminent implications on landscape systems and their formation.
Clemens Gritl is a German artist based in Berlin. His work focuses on the interaction between space, dimension, monotony and materiality of urban megastructures. His black and white photorealistic presentations can be aligned with 1960s architecture photography which documents a singular, unbroken optimism and the radical zeitgeist of its era.
Cate Wind creates sculptures and installations that reveal correlations between modern knowledge and ancient systems of belief. She assembles refined materials such as metal, glass, or resin with discarded found objects including gearwheels, vintage herbariums, or religious textiles. Fascinated by the interaction of materials with different feels and auras, her sculptures can be described as experiments that try to investigate the internal energies of various matters and how they affect each other.
As a woman with four children, home birthed two of the four, and homeschooled all through high school, Karen Ghostlaw's creative output inspires others and provides a platform for creative and independent thinking. This daunting task came with more rewards than sacrifices, and Karen found that sacrifice leads to growth. She found herself again through her photography, looking at herself, a study that started twelve years ago and continues today.
Federico Alcaro is an architect and artist. He approaches the graphic representation of dystopias with an architectural connotation to critically represent some phenomena of modern society. The images are always quite critical and provocative in the form of dystopias with an architectural connotation full of symbols and icons. Federico Alcaro’s biggest influences and inspirations refer to names from both architecture and art world.
A descendant of Afghani transplants to the Netherlands, Pirzad quickly mastered the ability to occupy the contrasting worlds of life both in and out of his home. Much of his work is a reflection of the artist’s revelation of defining his own reality. Pirzad reflects on realizing societal and ancestral influences on his existence. Following an epiphany of these influences’ impact on his existence, Pirzad used his art to analyze and deconstruct the results of his previously prescribed reality.
Cristina Maya Caetano is Portuguese, born in Angola, lived in Mozambique for some years, and presently lives in Portugal between Aveiro and Pinhel. She is a writer, a plastic artist, an illustrator, and a poet. In 2010, she used Cristina Maia Caetano as an artist name and examples of her book "To Know the Theater in Mozambique" and chronicles "See and Feel" in newspapers of Abrantes Journal; Daily Journal of Aveiro; Pinhel Falcon; Online Root and FM Radio Aveiro.
French filmmaker and researcher from Russia. She's also writing and teaching at University the cinema aesthetics and video art. Experimenting with different film genres and mediums – documentary, fiction, experimental video – Macha Ovtchinnikova questions the notion of the time and its investment in the film forms.
Stephanie Zwerschke draws her inspiration from all her surroundings that incorporate nature, fragility, age, and beauty in decay. She experiments with the rather unusual painting media steel plates and rust. The artist transfers the metaphorical value of rusting steel to the level of her art through the images she displays.
Fascinated by Michelangelo and Pablo Picasso. Pablo Von Goethe work emerges from the eyes of the protagonists of his stories that always cite the verses of being. The works created over the years have profound contents that invite the viewer to dive into the created worlds to search for the messages and the mediated values.
feeleash (M. Andresakis) actively works in music as well as the international publishing scene, implementing all types of digital graphics and video. Michael combines incompatible worlds into a new universe, increasing the dynamics between the audience and the author, investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.
Ayse U Akarca is a Turkish scientist who balances making art with her career in research at one of the world’s leading institutions at UCL. Working with different cancer tissues, faced with the reality of what this disease is and the effect it has on people’s lives, Ayse thinks about mortality – and the fine line that exists between life and death.
Augusto Poderosi was born in Rome. He works eclectically in the fields of figurative and audiovisual arts. Augusto started his activity in the laboratories of scenography at the Cinecitta Studios. He is also a sculptor, painter and restorer to the holy see he realizes numerous artistic patronage for the Basilica Papale di S.Paolo Fuori le Mura, di S.Antonio di Padova, Basilica Del Cristo Re (Rome) for the Vatican City and various other Roman churches.
Aïda Schweitzer is a Franco-Egyptian performance artist. She lives and works between Luxembourg and Brussels. Without learning in art school, her confusing work is based on "a no" partitioning, a distance from a formatted model, and challenges the established codes. Committed and feminist, her work plunges us into a poetic interiority of pure lines, a legacy of her travels in Asia.
Mattia Peressini works and studies in Lignano Sabbiadoro and Mestre in Italy. His research focuses on providing visual interpretations of sensations, thoughts, and emotions, and on different topics. The mystical and the inner self, as well as today and tomorrow worlds which intertwine, often by crushing or just touching us.
Bogdan feels an urge to paint, as he wants to make up for all the years he has not been painting. His style surfaced intuitively. Bogdan mostly identifies himself with Francis Bacon’s concept of a ‘tightrope walk between what is called figurative painting and abstraction.’ Each painting in multiple performances.
