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.
Olga Nikitina “When I am underwater, I feel the ocean energy and unity with nature, the silence around. Only I can hear my breathing and sometimes fish rambling. It is easy to enter a trance state when painting underwater. Rays from the sun penetrating through the water are magical - you can see and feel that this is the point where two different worlds intersect and mix – and this is a favorite subject to reflect in my paintings.”
Marit Otto is a multi-disciplinary artist. Her artworks have a strong sense of aesthetics and a firm arrangement of color and composition. Otto’s art is often a personal reflection of social issues and current affairs. To the artist, innovation is not a purpose in itself but the result of progressive insight and the need to stretch and push her own boundaries.
Salvatore Mauro is an award-winning Italian artist. His art opens in two directions, the first is a more performative expression, where the central element is the interaction with the viewer of which he becomes the protagonist. The other concerns sculptural elements, which he calls "lightboxes and constellations", which are created to last over time.
The works by David Dejous reveal the paradoxes within images, considering their equivocal nature and their ambiguities. He draws upon the confusion between the various codes of representation associated with painting, photography, and drawing, to create images that raise issues of authenticity, realism and illusion.
Nicola Barth is dealing with permanent metamorphic processes in non-obvious areas. Her work can be understood as an insight into a temporally and spatially limited development process section. Sculptures and manipulated photos complement painting and drawing mainly in oil. The content follows the same principle and is as abstract and surreal as her paintings. There is indeed a world behind this world. And it's constantly moving.
Leandro de Sousa Marcos began his artistic career in 2012. The artist's initial choice was for the pure forms, where the painting is the only surface painted, and the lines and colors suffice for what they are, forms, not what they can mean. After engaging in various projects, his work moved in a more personal and intimate direction, using the screen as a diary in which he could express feelings and clarify issues that art has put to him along his journey.
Patrícia Magalhães is a multidisciplinary artist from Lisbon, Portugal. her work is mostly drawing. The contamination with painting, etching, sculpture, and photography in a diversity of mediums and scales that she applies in each work is perceptible. She is represented in some private collections such as Fundação Bienal de Cerveira and Universidade Lisboa, among others.
Fernando Velazquez is a Spanish painter leaving and working in Dorset, UK. Born in Seville, his work has developed throughout his career into a highly personal language concerned with the power of nature and the imagination, evident in his series Paintings of the Floating World, Through the Veil, Cave Paintings of our Time, and recently Animas and In the Beginning series presented in London.
Mary Badalian’s artistic practice is marked by interweaving: of thread, materials, but also driving forces of nostalgia and compulsion. Her process is persistent and repetitive and each piece shelters a story and intense emotions, abstracted and expressed through texture and colour. These works and their process are the artist’s self-expression and self-exploration.
My Linh Mac is a multi-media artist, her works portray beauty in humble places with her signature style of deep and vibrant accent colors. Her work mixes traditional media, mostly acrylic painting, with digital painting and design. While Mac’s paintings have varied genres, from conceptual, abstract, and figurative to contemporary, her digital and visual design works are commercial.
Anastasiya Malyghina is of the idea that art speaks for itself. Her art is a flow of unconsciousness which becomes a sign, forming a unique image system. She achieves that due to the intuitive, fast drawing technique that originates in Pablo Picasso's art. Since 2019 Anastasiya has been actively involved in exhibitions in Italy and London. Anastasiya's artworks are held in Russian and foreign private collections.
Federico Alcaro is an architect and artist. He approaches the graphic representation of dystopias with an architectural connotation to critically represent some phenomena of modern society. The images are always quite critical and provocative in the form of dystopias with an architectural connotation full of symbols and icons. Federico Alcaro’s biggest influences and inspirations refer to names from both architecture and art world.
Betty Mariani's inspiration comes from the punk culture of the 70s, cinema, literature, pop art, and street art. Through this staging process, the artist questions our relationship to the image, to notions of intimacy and identity, in a world where digital information and social networks reign supreme. Thus Betty Mariani's paintings easily reflect the spirit of our time, which she finds fragmented and connected, dispersed but rallied.
Marqués de Jadraque's inspiration comes from living day to day, from his travels, contact with people, what he reads, what he sees in other artists, the conversations he had with friends, and from the cinema. To sum it up, somehow... Right now, Miguel is interested in figurative abstraction, inspired by this spring and the colors of nature.
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.
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.
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.
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.
