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.
RUNA (aka Rute Norte) lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. She is now finishing a Master's Degree in Painting, at Fine Arts Faculty, University of Lisbon. Her paintings can either refer to a memory, or be simple ideas and concepts that pass at the moment. As an artist-traveller, she writes travel chronicles accompanied by photos and tells a story through this trimediality: text, photography, and painting.
Elaine B. Chao is a traditional-digital hybrid artist working in Queens, NY. Expanding on traditional techniques, she first composes paintings on canvas or paper using acrylic, oil, and other mixed media. She then imports the paintings into image manipulation programs to blend, apply filters, and run actions. The final digital work is printed or uploaded to an AR app for display.
Ruth Egon is a British artist based in Scotland. Uplifting and inspiring people through her bold colour palette, she hopes to engage people in their environment and explores nature through a positive and intriguing lens. Taking reference from abstract artists, her landscapes are a tapestry of beautiful abstract space and symbolic representations. She is fascinated by natural beauty and the human experience.
Alicja Klimek is a Polish artist, based in Krakow. She delves into the subconsciousness, destroys the false identity, and finds in humans the Truth that flows from the very nature of existence. What you are looking at grows. She sees the potential in this unique time. This is the perfect time to Return To The Inside, in which she follows the Law of the Desert.
Yang Liu (Lizzy Liu) is a director, producer, and writer based in Los Angeles, California. Liu has written and directed several award-winning films in the past, including A Matter of Time, World Without End, and Tessellation. Her work always includes the elements of critical analysis and radical opinions towards the environment where she lives, and her films create a strong contrast and irony between the content and format.
Andrea Anderson Gluckman is an international award-winning photographer and writer who uses her platforms of academics, activism, and art to witness and leverage the stories of communities devastated by mass violence. She is currently based out of Rochester, New York, where she teaches and works collaboratively with artistic communities on issues of social justice, indigenous truth-telling, and anti-racism work.
Sophie Ruoyu Zhang is a Chinese artist, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Working as a "diffraction apparatus", her practice utilizes multiple natural materials (napa cabbage, wine, coffee, etc.). Her oil painting, printmaking, and performance respond to and reinterpret the natural objects that are in a limbo of recognition, permeating poetics on the threshold of the subjecthood, the recognizable and the representable.
Painting is just like a bridge for Michael Kwong, linking himself and the outside world together. He can express his attitude toward life and his thought about things, and more importantly, he can interact with people through his artworks. He wants to use his painting to spread a positive power to people and bring a better and prettier world to people through his paintings.
Haoxuan Chen is a Chinese artist, based in Changsha. Chen Haoxuan often paints teenagers in different scenes, and those teenagers are symbolic and can be seen as his own narrative about himself. There will also be frequent images of black cats, for whom the black cat is symbolized by the other. These objects are very important to him, and they are related to them, and then uses strong colors to express their concern for their relevance.
Lucy Papadopoulos is a sound artist and researcher thinking through waveforms to investigate how meaning is created at the outer limits of what is knowable. She uses animist, new materialist, and quantum physics philosophy as a gateway for perception into the performativity or "alive-ness" of matter. Her practice extends across film, electronics, interaction, sound, sculpture, creative coding, and performance.
Marco Lando's work is influenced by his New York theatre background. Combining existential plot lines, dramatic lighting, and surrealist stage design, the otherworldly mise-en-scenes he creates operate on a visceral, symbolic level. His latest series, the post-apocalyptic realm of Alchemy, evokes a timeless spiritual abyss where atonement and purification seem forever out of reach.
Allan Linder is a prolific, award-winning artist with more than thirty years of experience producing a wide range of artwork using multiple mediums and subject matter. He fabricates paintings, drawings, digital artwork, mixed media artworks, and sculptures, using a variety of materials and substrates. His recent work Cityscapes are a collection of hand-painted artworks scanned at high resolution and digitally painted.
Sonja Janjic is a visual artist from Serbia. Her passion for printmaking and analog photography can be seen in her further work, including mixed media, graphic design, motion art, and contemporary photography. In this series of digital collages, she strives to create a stronger sense of disharmony we all feel due to social and ecological problems by visually decomposing our everyday sights as a correlation to our behavior in real life.
Vinitte Chen is a young artist whose main works break away from common art forms such as painting and installation art. Instead, she opts to create unique interactive and multidimensional pieces as to generate an impactful experience for the viewer. Her art allows the viewers to break through the artist's intended interpretation and find their own meaning.
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.
Jhuliana Cueva, alias Jhuly, is a self-taught Ecuadorian photographer. She expresses with digital and conceptual photography her vision of her own existence to how she observes and interprets the world. Likewise, her works are based on everyday life and social criticism with the aim of conveying succinctly, thoughts of contemporary life.
Otilia Iliescu is a Romanian artist from Iași, Moldova region. Her artworks revolve around political or social issues, and she usually works together with psychologists, therapists, and people from the law and politics fields to complete her projects. Otilia started as a painter and redirected herself towards performances, sound design, and installations.
Marija Toskovic's work is based on an abstract “self-landscape,” which aims to redefine the perception of an external projection of the inner identity. She is interested in exploring the idea of (im)permanence of the “other side” on the horizon and in the landscape, which defines the immutability of intimate geography in her work.
Ashling (Yaxin) Tu is a Chinese Illustrator, Designer, and sculptor, living in the USA. Ashling primarily works on a digital pad for 2d arts. Her 3d sculptures are, in contrast, mainly built from natural materials and existing objects she picks up on the street. The young artist believes both reality and the digital world are as important in the current human society.
