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.
Masaki Iwabuchi is a New York-based interdisciplinary designer, artist, and futurist. Masaki believes we need alternative visions and worldviews to overcome numerous wicked problems in this century, such as climate change, forced migration, political and social polarization, etc. Therefore, he is interested in challenging our societal structures, vested interests, and Cartesian belief systems through his works.
Claude Stahel, born in 1966, lives and works in Zurich. With his latest works, Stahel is currently questioning the geopolitical tensions in Europe and Ukraine. His series TV Potemkin uses functional portable televisions from the 80s cast in epoxy cubes. The conservation prohibits any following manipulation of the devices and recalls political propaganda and its prohibition of choices.
p:d (Shuochun Xiang) is a London-based artist from Jiangsu, China. Integrating her life practice into her artistic practice, her work was involved in a wide range of media, including but not limited to sculpture, moving images, text, and performance. p:d tends to choose basic and daily materials, focuses on East Asian social issues from a female perspective, and explores themes of alienation and body politics.
Born and living in Tel Aviv, Israel, Ami Shinar is an architect and visual artist. Shinar's art echoes actual situations he experiences in his hometown Tel Aviv or, in general, in Israel. Be it on the local level – such as his urban scapes - or his more politically direct series of demonstrations against the government and its corrupt politicians. Shinar's art is, therefore, much involved in his everyday reality, with the hope of opening the eyes of the viewer.
Ettore Albert’s art is meant to inspire and awaken, question everything, bend the rules, break laws, dissolve the solid and connect the strange. It should animate to play. His art should point out the illusory nature of our transient environment. It's a realization that frees you, that makes you realize that serious is only what you take seriously.
Josef Gatti Buontempo works predominantly in digital and analogue collages. His works deal with the collision of modern living, capturing visual representations of travel, glamour, and health while bringing a spectrum of feelings related to our experience of life and marketing, including those around success, loneliness, financial security, and emotional wellbeing.
Rio Chen communicates through objects, graphics, and casual conversation. He focuses on social-political contents that address ethical concerns, SpicyPop culture in contemporary art, and design practice. He advocates the use of local and regional political language in design via organizing the workshop series Satellite Project and the social media platform randr.
ZULFA is an artist whose works investigates and questions the complexities of inextricably intertwined relationships of religion, culture, and politics and their influences on social structures. As an individual who stands at the crossroads of multiple minority groups, he aims to use his art to amplify their voices and concerns and create contemporary discourse.
Chang Chen is a Chinese artist based in Vancouver, Canada. The artist is willing to open her mind to the scope of the world of visual art, holding speculative and optimistic attitudes toward the unknown challenges. She values the effective communication between the artwork and the viewers and she believes that expressing oneself and making voices for the social currencies are indispensable as an existence in this Anthropocene.
Marcel Top is a 23 years old London-based Belgian photographer. Alongside his traditional use of photography, Top also explores the limits and boundaries of the medium through his practice. Top has always been fascinated by the power of technology, by the ambiguity of its double-faced nature. Breach of privacy, mass surveillance, and the collection of personal data is among Top’s recurring topics.
Kinnari Saraiya is an Indian artist based in the UK. Having grown up with the stories of the colonial empire told by her grandfather, she is fascinated by the physical evidence of this history in the landscape of India and England. It voices a counterculture of stories which depicts the dysfunctions of the world and forces a new type of meaning to be created through her work.
Nigerian born, American trained Artist based in UK with a creative and unique personal style. He paints in acrylic and watercolor, but his favored medium is oil paints. Most of Moyat's recent paintings were influenced by the political and social upheaval of our world today and the works of the Renaissance artists. The uprising in the Arab world is what influenced O Yemi Tubi's first political painting "ARAB REVOLUTION" in 2012
