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.
Le Liu (b 1996) is a young Chinese emerging artist, currently working and living in Coatbridge, Scotland. His paintings are both figurative and abstract. His works are expressive with brush strokes and vivid in colour, in a constant flux between abstract and realistic modes. His works combine theory and practice through reading philosophies combined with his Eastern cultural heritage.
Roel Funcken is a pioneering Dutch musician. He is undoubtedly among the world's greatest and most prolific artists. A contemporary abstract expressionist painter whose work is recognizable for his unique artwork style that is rich in textures, colors, and shapes. Based in The Netherlands, the artist has been making music under his own name for more than 30 years, and since the last years he started painting.
Ester Crocetta is an Italian visual artist. Her latest project, CHICCHIRIA Poultry, is a summary of years of deep interior reflection. The concept of the CHICCHIRIA Poultry is the theme of “ANIMAL FOOD”. Our liberated, consumerist society is still struggling to evolve towards this new theme. History has caused us to reflect on the balance and harmony within nature, teaching new limits regarding the excessive consumption of meat.
The subject of Yannie Gu’s artworks concentrates on exploring women’s self-identities as well as human psychological activities while facing collective and personal traumas. Lying between realistic and representational artistic styles, Yannie’s paintings capture vibrant figures in a variety of actions that further reflect women’s deeper insecurities and uneasiness through a voyeuristic lens.
Brett Ashby's practise spans painting, sculpture, film, theatre, sound, and installation. The multi-disciplinary artist, known for adopting unorthodox methodologies of practice, has explored multimedia forms of art creation since starting his practise in 2006 in London. Ashby presents new work that pushes against the binary that trauma is equally from the land as in people.
Ayuna guides the people into her works through personas. In addition, she expresses the nature that exists as it is, that natural process of winding and unwinding, and the weak and the strong in an effort to make a barrier against the violence she got through. Through such a process, she would save herself. She also wishes that somebody who views her works would be empowered to live in this violent world.
Kohlben Vodden is an Australian-born self-taught artist living and working in London, UK. His obsession with psychological concepts such as identity and aesthetics is central to his practice.Focusing on abstracted figurative works in oil paint, he employs insights from psychology and uses a bold geometric style with intense colour palettes to command the viewers’ attention and communicate stories of identity.
Michael Vincent Manalo is a visual artist who recently focused on acrylic paintings, photo manipulation, and installations. In his work, the subjects are represented through a mix of imagined and realistic images, playing with the expectations of the viewer and raising questions about the role that human emotions play in memory.
Milena ZeVu is a Serbian artist based in Belgrade. She always wanted her art to be more dynamic. Her latest series, ArtWalks, emphasizes her need to free art from the conventional exhibition space and the dominant western system of contemporary art, to which most artists are strongly subordinated. Milena unites with her art to defend it and preserve art's supreme independence and freedom.
Sindy Yeung is an abstract artist based in Hong Kong. She expresses her frustration and confusion through art. Sindy likes to create intuitively because she loves the feeling of letting her hands move freely and then being surprised by the magic of colours and different tools or materials. Her purpose in doing art is never to paint an “object” but to portray a belief, a question, a feeling, an emotion, or a vision.
Ramon Omolaja Adeyemi is a Nigerian artist, based in Manchester, UK. He works with oil on canvas by exploring several issues that are dear to him. He does portraits, landscapes, still life, and figures. His inspirations are from scenes witnessed around him. With eyes on a great deal of fine detail or complexity, his style is fit to convey the most intricate scene to the understanding with the utmost clearness.
Rafael Triana is a multidisciplinary artist. He was born in Cuba, but currently works and lives in Paris. His latest series, PARALLEL, is a series of digital illustrations that respond to current human relations issues. This series addresses the difference, opposites, and social inequalities and seeks a link to connect to contemporary times. He sees his art as a defense mechanism against reality to combat the circumstances of life.
Kelly Borgers is a contemporary Canadian artist, bases in Blue Mountains. Her work explores the use of texture and colour within the confines of a painting. Abstracted with minimal symbolism, she delves into the power of the mind and how emotions can overpower our sense of calmness. Many of her pieces are inspired by the recent events of enduring the pandemic and multiple lockdowns and isolation.
Kamila CK is a multidisciplinary artist merging boundaries between performance art (circus, movement, dance, musicality), abstract painting, and Japanese Zen calligraphy in a contemporary art context. Polish-born, educated and based in the UK. She is also experimenting with an idea for a live performance merging live abstract painting with circus and contemporary storytelling.
Mike Goldberg is a contemporary artist living in San Francisco, originally from NYC. He has long found inspiration and beauty in the nooks and crannies of ordinary life, painting the untold stories of people he's encountered throughout the years. Mike explores how memories universally define and shape the human experience through his interactive installation.
Tiba Mohsen Tighbakhsh is an Iranian artist currently based in Germany. In recent years Tiba has been working on a new idea. First, he worked hard on a rare world concept that he created himself—a combination of drawing, painting, and tattooing, all on rare and handwoven kilims. In his most recent works, Tiba combines spirals with lines. He developed a completely new art technique, the Spiralist.
A Young Lee is a visual artist based in Seoul, Korea. She is interested in language, communication, and emotions. Her works use a typography and new language she created. Through the concept of concealment, Lee opens a conversation and suggests that viewers discuss and think about her works in their own ways. She doesn't want her viewers to have certain answers for her works.
Jerry Helle is a 22-year old Cameroonian artist, currently based between Germany, Cameroon, the USA and Portugal. His work represents contrasting value systems, the dynamics of his family’s history, postcolonial theories. Working primarily with abstract painting as the deliberate reduction to the essential, Helle depicts an understanding of his physical, spiritual, and emotional reality.
Alan Lacke is a Cuban artist, currently based in Madrid, Spain. His art is based mainly on scientific information, mathematical laws, cosmic energies, and history. He uses the simplest elements to represent his ideas, and colors are essential to convey sensations to those contemplating the paintings.
Oleg Tsyba is a Russian artist and doctor. He started creating his artworks four years ago, and since then, painting has become his main passion. In his artworks, Oleg explores the form in its primary manifestation. Most often, the subject of his work is ancient mythology. These themes are always relevant to Humanity - they tell us about love, sex, passion, and death. And they inspire Oleg to create.
