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.
Donna Gough’s multidisciplinary art practice links elements from drawing, painting, sculpture, and light-based media, investigating ideas around our very existence and our ‘place in space,’ while exploring existential concepts of geometry as a universal language and Gestalt theories of our relationship with nature and the cosmos. She has exhibited in the United States, Germany, and Australia.
Art Sokoloff is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in London, UK. His research and projects center around the creation of structure-based abstraction. His current work is being made around the influence of rules applied in the crafting of game-like experiences. Taking on both the role of the rule-setter and the participant, Art is involved in the process of making "situations" (strict conditions with clear rules) and their subsequent resolutions.
Lewis Deeney is a Scottish painter, currently based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In his latest series, the Emergence Collection, the thread is meditatively layered upon the painted surface. Through mindful repetitive layering, complex patterns emerge and pockets of order disperse across the canvas. The emergent order created by the thread is contrasted with the expressive application of paint creating transcendent paintings with an iridescent glow.
Roel Funcken is a pioneering Dutch musician. He is undoubtedly among the world's greatest and most prolific artists. A contemporary abstract expressionist painter whose work is recognizable for his unique artwork style that is rich in textures, colors, and shapes. Based in The Netherlands, the artist has been making music under his own name for more than 30 years, and since the last years he started painting.
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.
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.
Alan Lacke is a Cuban artist, currently based in Madrid, Spain. His art is based mainly on scientific information, mathematical laws, cosmic energies, and history. He uses the simplest elements to represent his ideas, and colors are essential to convey sensations to those contemplating the paintings.
Marcel Schwittlick is an artist based in Berlin, Germany. With his work, he is examining the cybernetic aspects of generative systems and modern technology. He is interested in digital culture, its influence on society, and chances for alternative types of communication. He is working in strong connection to various practices, forging a relationship between physical and digital media, traditional and modern approaches.
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.
Marco Jacconi is a Swiss artist based in Zurich. His work is a dive into the unknown. Cause and effect remain diffuse with these surfaces and amorphous forms, which dramatically overlap and penetrate each other until depths emerge. Each work is visualized energy; as if something is pushing outwards from the inside, as if the surfaces were under pressure.
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.
István Dukai is an Hungarian artist and graphic designer, currently based in Budapest. The fundamental principle of his compositions is reduction, which is based on natural elements being stylized to geometric shapes and the diverse ways of combining these elements. Sensuality also plays a key role in his pictures. He has opened towards interdisciplinary fields.
Syl Arena is a California-based artist known for his explorations of non-representational photography. He freely admits that he is addicted to color and shadow. In his current series, Constructed Voids, Arena deconstructs white light into vibrant hues and mixes them onto monochromatic constructs. Through the intersection of light, construct, and lens, Arena finds transformative relationships that he describes as “inner landscapes.”
As a traveler of the analog-digital synthesis, the visual artist Nae Zerka never stops exploring. Nae's inspiration comes from digitalization, along with graphic design and music. Himself he produced electronic music and became a techno DJ in legendary clubs. His work blends the design element with technology, graphic design with a painterly finish.
