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.
American visual artist Izosceles produces vibrant, fun pop-ish visual compositions that are irresistible and attention-grabbing. Heavily influenced by pop cartoons, the artist hopes to make them a serious contender in the art world that are just as worthy of admiration and attention as fine art paintings.
Peter Backhaus is an award-winning artist based in Sweden whose paintings have been exhibited nationally, as well as in Luxembourg, Germany, Denmark, and China. He describes his works as being created in a space that lies between "intellectual thinking and uncontrolled instinct". Backhaus refers to his compositions as inner pictures with no purpose, where "total silence and total chaos co-exist”.
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.
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.
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.
Hermano Noronha is more interested in the symptom than in the evidence, in reaching what is under the obvious. He is interested in the vortex of time and how the plurality of individual memories is combined in the building of collective memory. Through the identification and photographic registration of symbolic markers, he seeks to build archives against oblivion.
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.
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.
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.
Carla Piacenza’s work addresses issues that are related to nature and human behavior. Thus, she reflects on gender, identity, migrations, and the environment and climate changes. Taking resources from science and psychology, and transforming them into visual poetics, the works are presented as hypothetical and experiential ideas seeking to decode a personal argument.
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.
