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.
Maja Malmcrona is a visual artist born in 1993 in Gothenburg, Sweden, and currently based in Zurich, Switzerland. Her work relates primarily to an examination of space and our experience of it, placing particular emphasis on the mediation between our natural and built environment. Her work takes the form of abstract landscapes, conceptual cartography, and imaginary structures.
Nataliya Lemesheva is a Russian artist, currently living in Barcelona. Her artistic practice revolves around the concept of non-duality — the understanding that all phenomena are ultimately interconnected and indivisible. In her works, she strives to show the blurring of boundaries between opposites, such as light and dark, internal and external, familiar and foreign, abstraction and realism.
Seoyoung Kim is an interdisciplinary artist and curator based in Brooklyn. Her practice is a continuing examination of surroundings and site relativity that comes from the placement of things. Her work, when placed in a chosen site, documents a triangular relationship between site, thing, and viewer. She is also the founding director of Site, a curation service dedicated to building communities.
Juyi Mao's artistic practice is deeply entrenched in exploring the alchemy of moving images and sound across varied formats. Mao is intrigued by the relationships that exist between people, space, and objects within contemporary life and socio-political contexts. His mixed media art installations are platforms where he dissects the essence of art and media, effectively bridging the gap between the artist and the audience.
Andi Zhang is an architectural designer and a visual artist in the architecture field. Andi focuses on using unconventional methods to dive into architecture. Instead of designing conventional independent buildings, she is trying to use other components to build up architecture. Her project Vision is designed as a narrative museum about Movies in Los Angeles.
Jiaming Zhang is a Chinese artist, currently based in America. He is an avid observer and constantly draws inspiration from the space and dynamics around him.In his latest series, Space #, Zhang uses simple lines to express his environmental awareness on canvas. Sensual and innately, exposed to the space, each painting carries its own emotional tone and narrative - just like every inch of air, with a unique smell, movement, and mood.
Linda Aquaro is an Italian architect and painter based in Rome. Her research is strongly focused on figurative art and portraiture. The artist is fascinated by the relationship between the volumes of the face and space and loves experimenting with different languages, from the most traditional ones (such as painting and engraving) to the most contemporary such as digital graphics, or the combination of multiple techniques.
Noah Spivak is a Canadian artist, currently based in Melbourne, Australia. His fascination with the human senses, the ambiguity of everyday life, and the space in which the art experience occurs culminate in a body of work exploring how we experience visual art and the subconscious decisions we make leading up to this moment.
Marina Wittemann is a Russian artist, currently based in Germany. Her art is inspired by the ability to perceive the world through complex experiences of color, space, and time. This volumetric pictorial color field is an opportunity to perceive events, feelings, and emotions through synesthesia. She works with paintings as well as sculptures and is influence by various different cultures and techniques.
Carolina Serrano is a Portuguese artist whose artistic practice develops in the field of sculpture. Serrano’s theoretical research revolves around the sphere of the temporality of Sculpture. The artist is particularly interested in working on the disturbing and mysterious cleavage between what is real and what is illusory, between what is visible and what is invisible, between what is palpable and what is immaterial.
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.”
Aristo Vopĕnka explores the boundaries between photography, illustration, painting, and print. Using an experimental attitude towards these different media, new forms of expression take place. They are the beginning of a contemporary reinterpretation of expressionism which he has started to call experiential expressionism.
Mike Steinhauer is a photographer, conceptual artist, blogger, and arts administrator who is keenly interested in the environment within which he lives. Mike is particularly interested in the relationship between past and present use (and perception) of object and space. His most recent work is an investigation into memory—both as it is created and re-experienced.
