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.
Marco Almaviva (1934 -) is an Italian painter, the protagonist of a long artistic journey that began in Milan in the early 1960s. Evolving from a testament to life's drama, his practice, which he named Filoplastica, became a metaphor for continuous research that plunges into the depths of matter. His works are effectively "oils on canvas" produced without the canvas to paint on.
Sveta Amova is a mixed media artist, designer, and founder of AMOVA Jewelry. Her latest series, Tennis Reborn, takes as its starting point a humble tennis ball, an object that is all too often considered disposable after it has lost its bounce. Their distinctive fuzz, shape, and bright color inspired the artist to give them a second life and transform them into artworks.
Robert van de Graaf is a Dutch visual artist living and working in The Hague, the Netherlands. He is interested in the connections and relations between the mystical in this world, in all its manifestations (the sea, the sky, nature, human-built environments, light and darkness), the sense and the dimension of the spiritual world and our soul. Each piece gives substance to his ongoing journey to seek meaning in life.
Jessica Braccio’s artwork is influenced by her autism. Being on the spectrum helps her create her artwork. Autism is the vehicle that helps Jessica create and encode her artwork. Her Divinity shows her the codes, colors, and shapes to include in each piece, and she acts as a translator. She chooses to consciously create from a space of Divinity, free from trauma and chaos.
Sarah Owusu-Ansah is an artist from Accra, Ghana. Her art is influenced by her daily interests, from her fascination with sci-fi stories and horror movies. The images she creates are dependent on what phase she is going through in her life and her environment at that moment. Her thick application of paint gives the image the space to live freely outside the picture plane.
Rachel Jag is a self-taught artist. Exploring the approach to the unknown, trying to get closer to the creative process of turning one flash of inspiration in a single moment into something with a life of its own, is the most fascinating to the artist. Intuition leads the way. The communication between the artist, the source of her inspiration, and what is being created on paper opens up new, unseen doors and unexplored fields.
Vinitte Chen is a young artist whose main works break away from common art forms such as painting and installation art. Instead, she opts to create unique interactive and multidimensional pieces as to generate an impactful experience for the viewer. Her art allows the viewers to break through the artist's intended interpretation and find their own meaning.
Ashling (Yaxin) Tu is a Chinese Illustrator, Designer, and sculptor, living in the USA. Ashling primarily works on a digital pad for 2d arts. Her 3d sculptures are, in contrast, mainly built from natural materials and existing objects she picks up on the street. The young artist believes both reality and the digital world are as important in the current human society.
The Argentinian artist Samanta Masucco builds her artworks from contemplation, dialogue, and interaction with nature and socio-cultural reality. She explores the intimate encounter of elements, cycles, and poetics using paintbrushes, colors, and textures as creationist instruments of the visual gesture.
