Joana Alarcão brings awareness to the corrosive social alienation toward the environment and even human beings. The contrasts of how nature is consecutively part of the human species and human reaction toward it led her sculptures and drawings to be mostly human referenced and made with naturally made materials. The friction behind these two arguments is a major aspect of her practice.
INTERVIEW | Beichen Zhang
By researching the narration of photography and unveiling hidden histories, Beichen Zhang’s work is a set of a visual experience of a metaphorical and poetic method through personal narratives. Through the research of archaeology and anthropology, history, art, and other disciplines, he examines and builds a poetic visual language with its thoughts.
INTERVIEW | Mike Steinhauer
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.
INTERVIEW | Jiwon Kwak
Jiwon Kwak was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1991 and received his BA from Goldsmiths University, London 2018, and MA from Royal College of Art, London in 2020. He has been working as a breakdancer at Arun Company since 2004. Kwak's work is majorly influenced by Hip hop culture - the elements of Hip hop come from different regions and cultures.
INTERVIEW | Sabrina Choi
Sabrina Choi is a Hong Kong-born artist who is currently based in London, UK. She mainly works with 2D paintings where she merges her Chinese heritage with her artwork, creating work that allows her to express herself through colors and space while embracing the quiet and shy nature of being an Asian female. It aims to create a safe space for people to have conversations about major issues through art itself.
INTERVIEW | Stella Guan
Stella Guan is a queer, non-binary 20-year-old from Brooklyn, New York. Currently, Stella is majoring in Fine Arts and minoring in Creative Writing at the American University of Paris. Additionally, they are pursuing a career as a tattoo artist. By translating deeply rooted, emotionally scarring experiences and memories into their paintings, Stella challenges themselves and their viewers to delve into the most horrifying, bitter, and hurt parts of themselves.
INTERVIEW | Rui Aleixo
Rui Aleixo was born, lives, and works in Lisbon. He develops his artistic work as a freelancer since 2008, and he has exhibited both collective and individual projects. He works with diversified techniques, materials, and media, materialized in works of painting, drawing, engraving, installation, and sculpture, as well as performance or action. He is represented in private collections and a public collection at Fundação Portuguesa de Telecomunicações.
INTERVIEW | Aleks Rosenberg
Aleks Rosenberg is a multi-disciplinary artist and filmmaker who resides in the United States. The central themes found in his works relate to the 'outsider looking into the darkness of the human vortex' countered by the optimism of 'no matter what, the sun will always rise tomorrow'. For Rosenberg, there has always been the tension between light and darkness, and as such, his compositions seek to find a balance between the two extremes.
INTERVIEW | Alexandra Fly
Alexandra Holownia is a performance and interdisciplinary conceptual artist who made actions in public space, costumes, sculptures, drawings, video, text, lectures. Alexandra Holownia's works touch on taboo topics related to gender. She demonstrates against exclusion, discrimination based on age, sexism, and patriarchal structures in women and men's private and public relations. Calls for socio-political tolerance, acceptance of human rights, and freedom of sexual self-determination.
INTERVIEW | Vian Borchert
Vian Borchert is an expressionist artist. V. Borchert considers all her artwork to be visual poems. For the artist nature is very essential and plays an important role in her life. Thus, V. Borchert is a nature lover - mother nature is her sanctuary and her ultimate solace. Borchert is an avid nature observer. Through contemplating upon nature, the artist reaches her inner peace and attains moments of zen.
INTERVIEW | Ryoji Morimoto
Ryoji Morimoto is a mixed-media artist who was born in Kochi, a rural area of Japan. His simple upbringing infused his childhood with the legacy and lifestyle of coexistence with nature. His works are based on the relationship between something disappearing, changing, and arising with the flow of time and the human being. He often gets inspiration from simple daily life elements, such as the natural world, and visualize the relationship between their background and human beings.
INTERVIEW | Sungwan Huang
Sungwan Huang (1995) is a Taiwanese artist currently living in Czech Republic. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from Taipei National University of the Arts. Huang's work focuses on the invisible flow between people and the world, from poetic visual language and objects. Guiding the audience to walk in space and let the image and object inspire each other.
INTERVIEW | Marina Gasparini
Marina Gasparini was born in Gabicce Mare. She lives and works in Bologna, Italy. After graduation from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna, she started her artistic activity in Bologna in the '80s. Her practice focuses on living places and is mostly based on drawing, embroynding, and installations. Since 2001, the employment of textiles has been constant in her works.
INTERVIEW | Leah Oates
Leah Oates has a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and a M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a Fulbright Fellow for graduate study at Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. Thus, the world appears to be a complicated tissue of events in which connections of different kinds of alternate, overlap, or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole. All phenomena are processes, connections, all is in flux, and at moments this flux is visible.
INTERVIEW | Johannes Boekhoudt
Boekhoudt is an exclusive self-taught fine art painter with more than twenty years of experience. His original modern expressionist artwork is indeed one of a kind since Boekhoudt does not create nor authorize any reproductions of his artwork. He has an exceptionally loyal clientele since they can privately own original museum quality artwork that will never be displayed on a commercial level.
INTERVIEW | Bo Cosfranz
Bo Cosfranz was born in Yugoslavia in 1987. She moved to London in 1993. Her focus is on painting, with style developed through a background in textile, printmaking, and sculpture. Learning these techniques has shaped the way that she sees, as they require the artist to think about areas of color and a reduced palette. Bo treats paintings in the same way, with discrete areas of color and hard-edged shapes.
INTERVIEW | Doug Winter
Doug Winter is a fine art and editorial photographer focusing on social awareness working in both abstract and representational photography. He is best known for his large-scale abstract photographic images on dye-infused aluminum panels. "I'm a curious perfectionist," he has said. "The work is inspired by light and reflective colors in nature.
INTERVIEW | Sanja Star
Sanja Star is a Senior Graphic Designer and Art Director in an agency and the corporate environment. She combines digital and traditional techniques, 3D art, and creative coding to create artworks used for her live performances. Sanja Star creates audio-reactive visuals, which enables her to perform interactively with musicians creating an improvised audio-visual set.
INTERVIEW | Fdez
The art of Fdez explores social issues influenced by our current world and infused with a reflection of his divided Dominican/American heritage. It uses surrealism, allegory, sarcasm, satire, symbolism & impactful images to compose works that critique world cultures, religions, and social/political issues from the world we live in, with the intent to capture human emotion in response to these.