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.
Sára Kasanová Bown is a visual artist specializing in photography, video, and installation media. Her work explores themes, including the non-linear perception of time, vulnerability, and human connection, reflecting a deep engagement with the human experience. Her latest series was created in the spring of 2023 and 2024 after moving from the city of Prague to the suburbs.
Vytautas Buinevicius is an architect, urbanist, researcher, and photographer based in Vilnius, Lithuania. His latest series, Hypervernacular, is an ongoing series of research on urban and rural areas in transition celebrating the ingenuity of non-professional designs driven by sincere care, the sensitivity of nature, “supervised decay,” pure practicality, and limited resources, unrestrained by mainstream or high-society architectural culture.
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.
Jasmine Zhu is a Chinese artist currently based in the US. Her works range from sketches and drawings to large-scale ink paintings, as well as architectural drawings. Her series Multi-Lanscapes takes inspiration from the mandatory mathematics course multivariable calculus and is comprised of ink drawings on rice paper, with blueprint free hand lines as the background, as well as digital and spatial reimaginations.
Jiang Xiaohan is a painter and poet from China, currently based in Chicago. Drawing inspiration from memories of the past and visions of imagination, Xiaohan paints the nostalgic bonds between her homeland's landscapes and nature; through her personal experiences, she explores the pursuit of faith and self-redemption against the backdrop of East Asian cultural and political contexts.
Chong Liu is a New York-based concept artist and digital illustrator, originally from China. As a digital illustrator and concept artist immersed in the dynamic world of game development, Chong Liu’s creative journey is a fusion of imagination and technical expertise. His work is a testament to my passion for bringing fantastical worlds to life, and captivating audiences through visually compelling narratives.
Xinyu Gao is a visual artist and photographer who specializes in fine art photography and experimental images. Obsessed with the visibility and invisibility of aesthetic and cultural diversity, she is inspired by echoes from pictorialism in her initial creation and constantly pricked from the perception of embodied senses, experience, emotion, and memory.
Jiayin Song is a background and visual development artist from China, currently based in SoCal. Her inspiration comes from a variety of animated shows and movies that capture a sense of nostalgia, magic, and sentimentality through the visuals. Her work focuses on storytelling, creating magical but believable illustrations that capture similar emotions.
Susan Sitko is a Polish multidisciplinary artist currently working in Brighton, UK. Her photography series Sensitive Flesh and The Vessel have been recognized for the poetic exploration of moments where humanity merges with the natural world. In both projects, she includes many tactile elements that result in images with a unique sensory quality.
Xuechen Chen, a dynamic architect and visionary visual artist, was born in China and is currently based in New York. Central to her work is the concept of layering, where elements like perspective, emotion, and media converge to create entirely new forms of digital art. Xuechen's belief in the power of layering leads to innovative, emotionally resonant creations.
Bat Chen Sneir's pictorial compositions examine the relationship between nature and culture and their traces on each other, inviting the viewer to delve deeper and discover modes of observation. The painting tries to describe what cannot be defined and deciphered towards an open and unlabeled space where even the concrete is broken down into its smallest particles and still continues to exist in a special way.
Chun Han is a photographer and creative director based in New York. Chun has been creating works focus on Asian women's social dilemmas, photographing Asian women and women's bodies, especially her self-portraits. Her other studio and video work were largely impacted by her theatre background by staging contrasting colors and theatrical effects in the images.
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.
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.
Datis Golmakani is an Iranian painter and cartoonist, born in Mashhad, Iran, in 1985, and currently based in Wiesbaden, Germany. As an artist, time and place have never affected him, and what's considered important is the commitment to create form and uncertainty in principles. He's looking for moderation and jumping from romanticism to better understand the depth of content.
Yijun Ge is a Chinese artist based in San Francisco. Yin and Yang are the basis of her visual language, representing passion and calmness. The contrast creates balance and tension, often represented through warm and cool colors. The elements that show up in her dreams, such as spiders, sailboats, cats, and dragons, help create a painting's theme. They are a unique symbolic language representing larger concepts.
Michael Filimowicz is a Digital Artist based in St. Louis, USA. He has a background in computer mediated communications, audiovisual production, new media art and creative writing. His research develops new multimodal display technologies and forms, exploring novel form factors across different application contexts including gaming, immersive exhibitions, and simulations.
Xiao He is a multidisciplinary artist focusing on painting and visual communication design. In her works, Xiao records ordinary life moments such as soaking in the warm bathtub as well as random conversations that she had with a stranger in Mexico. Consciousness the magician would fabricate these fragments together, and she records them faithfully, in the form of paintings and artist's books.
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.
