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.
Marcello Silvestre’s artworks narrate the city through the emotions, the smells, the flavors and the noises. He relates the indissoluble relationship between man and city sculpting bodies, legs and arms on which he lets towers and houses arise in a continuous flow. He creates dreamlike visions and interweaving of soft lines, triangles and edges.
Ronit Keret’s recent work deals with the ecological crisis, the melting glaciers that have been changing due to the nature of human activity. The Installations that Keret creates are formed as a reaction to the given display space and the nature of the material she uses itself. Keret describes the transitions between good and evil in looking at human and nature relations and the gap between childhood dreams and catastrophic reality.
Cherrie Yu is born in Xi'an, China. She currently lives and works from Chicago. Yu is the author of the Narrative Series is a series of videos in which classical narratives and characters were reenacted with thrift objects or foods. The narrative is chosen often signals a significant change to the characters selected, such as their marriage, death, exile, or injury.
Salomé Tamayo’s characters humorously celebrate the inconsistencies and peculiarities of social cannons. She plays with abstract and existential concepts to give concrete depictions of people being and living in their own way. By observing people, she looks for characters and stories entwined in everyday life. The collection is meant to bring people together through the real and the raw.
Rosinda Casais combines architecture with sculpture. At the moment, she collaborates with Fahr 021.3 and studies sculpture at Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto. Throughout her career, she collaborated with different teams of architects, Atelier Peter Zumthor, Vinagre & Côrte-Real, Immopo and as a freelancer.
Cate Wind creates sculptures and installations that reveal correlations between modern knowledge and ancient systems of belief. She assembles refined materials such as metal, glass, or resin with discarded found objects including gearwheels, vintage herbariums, or religious textiles. Fascinated by the interaction of materials with different feels and auras, her sculptures can be described as experiments that try to investigate the internal energies of various matters and how they affect each other.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Carmel Ilan is an obsessive collector of abandoned texts. This no man's land of abandoned books is an interesting position for her to start. Working with paper requires attention to the delicacy, crispness, and fragility of the material. Carmel’s images grow out of folded fields of paper. Reading is transformed into observation. The papers, carriages of text, preserve the material memory from which they came, and at the same time, grow into a new language.
Born in Valladolid, Spain in 1958, currently develops his artistic activity between the cities of Córdoba and Denia. His work develops from dialogue as an inescapable formula for the common construction of possible realities. His art vision considers the subtlety of language and the synthesis of meanings as essential characteristics for an energetic and peaceful expression at the same time.
Vassilis Vassiliades (Nicosia, Cyprus, 1972). He believes that the linear channel in which it moves, traps our perception and aesthetics in the narrow cell of logic, the eternal enemy of creation. In the age of the moving image, Vassilis does not hesitate to state that he remains committed to statics, probably because it is the only hope to create small cracks into the iron curtain of time.
Jiannan Wu, (1990 Dalian, China), is a young artist specializing in figurative sculpture. His art prominently features the theme of people's daily life narratively. Selfie Series is about the selfie phenomenon among the young generation, Subway Series presents different subway scenes in the New York metropolitan area, and the current ongoing Country Love series restores the country life in Northeast of China.
Nick Ervinck remains fascinated by the "negative space" as he discovered it with classical sculptors such as Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth. he explores in his own unique way classical themes such as man, plants especially their genetic manipulation, masks and animals, always starting from an (art) historical background that he cuts with contemporary pop and sci-fi culture.
