INTERVIEW | Cate Wind

INTERVIEW | Cate Wind

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.

INTERVIEW | Karen Ghostlaw

INTERVIEW | Karen Ghostlaw

As a woman with four children, home birthed two of the four, and homeschooled all through high school, Karen Ghostlaw's creative output inspires others and provides a platform for creative and independent thinking. This daunting task came with more rewards than sacrifices, and Karen found that sacrifice leads to growth. She found herself again through her photography, looking at herself, a study that started twelve years ago and continues today.

INTERVIEW | Federico Alcaro

INTERVIEW | Federico Alcaro

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.

INTERVIEW | Qeas Pirzad

INTERVIEW | Qeas Pirzad

A descendant of Afghani transplants to the Netherlands, Pirzad quickly mastered the ability to occupy the contrasting worlds of life both in and out of his home. Much of his work is a reflection of the artist’s revelation of defining his own reality. Pirzad reflects on realizing societal and ancestral influences on his existence. Following an epiphany of these influences’ impact on his existence, Pirzad used his art to analyze and deconstruct the results of his previously prescribed reality.

INTERVIEW | Anastasiya Malyghina

INTERVIEW | Anastasiya Malyghina

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.

INTERVIEW | Betty Mariani

INTERVIEW | Betty Mariani

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.

INTERVIEW | Marques de Jadraque

INTERVIEW | Marques de Jadraque

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.

INTERVIEW | Susan Hensel

INTERVIEW | Susan Hensel

Susan Hensel makes sculptural textile works from a feminist perspective combining mixed-media practices with fabric and embroidery across digital and manual platforms, transforming personal experience, private and public spaces, and notions of beauty, through the alchemy of color, scale, lighting and placement.

INTERVIEW | Ruiqi Zhang

INTERVIEW | Ruiqi Zhang

Ruiqi's art and research combine critical thinking about Internet culture and China's online rural community. Incorporating the observation of emerging mobile technology, short-video platform, Internet narrative, many of Ruiqi's works express the concern of media strategies, cultural and class divide under the dominant discourse.

INTERVIEW | Joana Alarcão

INTERVIEW | Joana Alarcão

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.