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.
Maggie Wen 温馨 works mainly with the combination of interview research-based text and photography. She draws a lot of her inspiration from intercultural research. She explores the relationship between words and the environment to understand culture, politics, economics’ influence over human life, and the driving forces behind decisions.
Yulia Artemyeva is a photo-artist from Russia. She creates symbolic series of works that often balance between portrait and still life. The main theme of Yulia's art is death and memories people have of the already gone phenomena. In her latest series, Ballerina and Flowers, she compare flowers to the poses of a classical dance ballerina.
Visual artist Suridh Das-Hassan focus on cultural and ethnic identity as well as memory and movement, particularly within the urban environment. Traditionally, Suridh's work has been about documentation, investigation, and collaboration. His ongoing series Reconstruction Of Self (i) is an intensely personal journey through family, power, colonialism and identity.
Akane, also known as akamidget, is a visual artist whose background lies in video games. Throughout her career, she's worked on numerous video game trailers, later expanding into the commercial realm through online and TV adverts. How we, from our electronic realm, relate to our primordial ancestors at the root of humanity's multi-layered narrative is a question that will continue to drive the artist's work.
Nora Lagström Jebara is a young female artist of dual Palestinian and Swedish identities, currently residing in Lund, Sweden. Her latest series, Mentally Occupied, is a collection of digital visuals. The visuals expose different mental disorders, which are universal disorders that humans experience regardless of nationality, ethnicity, or geographic location.
Rick Bogacz is a landscapes and street photographer based in Toronto, Canada. Influenced by painters such as Edward Hopper and Canadian Christopher Pratt, Rick’s images will show lone figures walking through the frame or standing alone contemplating their surroundings. Other photographs will emphasize the natural elements themselves but in a solitary way.
Dave Hanson is an artist with a lifelong passion for the medium of photography. He has been intrigued and inspired by everything, from the uniqueness of the human face and body to the historic footprints left by man on the land, or the beauty of the landscape throughout the United States and the world. Dave’s photographs represent the outcome of his vision as translated through the passion of his soul.
Diego Esquivel aka [ctrl_v] is a New Media artist born in Costa Rica. His work has been continuously developed due to his interest in bringing the digital into the physical world, so it's been characterized by using non-traditional media, such as vjing, digital compositions, projection mapping, and, more recently, augmented and virtual reality.
Milena Deparis is a French-Argentinian photographer based in the U.K. Her latest series, Hidden Canvases, explores the aesthetic beauty of our world's unseen and hidden images. Hidden Canvases is a motto that has come to encompass her photographic approach and style, as well as her perception of beauty and how she chooses to capture it.
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.
ZULFA is an artist whose works investigates and questions the complexities of inextricably intertwined relationships of religion, culture, and politics and their influences on social structures. As an individual who stands at the crossroads of multiple minority groups, he aims to use his art to amplify their voices and concerns and create contemporary discourse.
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.
Oussama Garti is a Moroccan architectural designer and artist trained at the Architectural Association in London. Fascinated by the infinite amount of similarities between macro and micro elements around him, Garti explores the idea of perception and works with extensive research to produce his work. His environment and observations fuel his creative process.
London-based artist and designer, Basma Alshather has turned her art into fashion. A former ceramicist, her current practice is printmaking. She designs slow and ethical collections of scarves. Her methodology uses hand-painted art, translating it onto textiles using various textures, fibres, and colours. Her art is an expression of the moment that can manifest in different forms, experimental and intuitive and precise with sureness.
Kristine Narvida is an academic visual artist from Latvia. It is important for her to know that this is real life and not a place for nostalgia. Through understanding of time, physical feelings, and the vis-à-vis of a living human model, a pause is created, and a place is created for the emergence of the present. Every line and brushstroke are precise, just like every meeting with this person, a dream, a thought.
Oxana Kovalchuk is an artist from Kazakhstan, currently living and working in New York/New Jersey. Oxana's body of work "Making Fools Pray To God" metamorphoses Christian saints from her private arsenal into contemporary 'deities' revered by the masses, people at large, under new guises. She sees that the spiritual 'links' today have an equivalent in the 'realities' provided us through digital screens.
Thomas Behling is a German artist, born in Hanover in 1979. Modeled on found historical (authentic) objects, the objects by Thomas Behling pave the way for insight into the deception and transfiguration of appearances. In them, the viewer is confronted with the socio-historical memory and through specific filters and amplifiers with their private and subjective memory.
Marichka Lukianchuk is an artist and a filmmaker from Ukraine, born in 1997. Marichka believes that ideas are not something you come up with, but the intentions searched for and uncovered within and outside oneself. These intentions come from the image on her mind, and she sees her mission in uncovering the stories hidden behind them.
Originally from Hangzhou, China, Chao Wang is an artist who now works from New York. Her works are characterized by the presence of both organic and artificial elements, in a fusion that explores the human relationship with technology. Chao Wang is interested in how human-being interact with an increasingly technological society, exploring this through intriguing motifs.
Jim Green is an American artist, working primarily with digital art. He treats the computer mouse as a paint brush and pencil and the computer screen as a blank canvas to create virtual paintings that brings into question the value of traditional painting versus digital mark-making, particularly at a time when so much art is being produced using technological and printing processes.
