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.
Jeremy Bach is a self-taught artist, based in upstate New York. He started his art career as a painter, and later approach photography as a medium. Using his studies of art techniques and with the artist trained eye, Bach began using the camera not just as a tool but more as an extension of his imagination. He uses the camera to explore his feelings, dreams, and comments on artistic beauty or current social issues.
Giorgio Gerardi is an Italian artist living in Favaro Veneto, Venice. He is a self-taught artist, and works by projects, divided into series of multiple images; among the latest, there are "Clouds", "Leaves" and "Details", and all focus on the search for details. Giorgio is not interested in a representation of the object. He is not interested in depicting it as it is; he tries to get a final image that has shapes and colors that he likes.
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.
Luc Vandervelde Lux is a Belgian artist, living and working in Brussels. No material escapes the eye of the artist: carpets, fabrics, plastic, felt, jute, rubber, knitwear, metal or wooden frames, remnants of roofing, tape, or moving blankets are processed in his visual universe. It is a multi-layered world where found objects are freely brought together to relate to each other in new harmony.
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.
Michal Milczarek is a sound artist, guitarist, and composer living in Warsaw, Poland. He is interested in the relationship between sound and our perception of sonic experiences, and he believes that by listening carefully to our surroundings, we can gather a lot of information about the world around us and about ourselves. He is currently composing music and sound art, as well as NFT projects.
Dawn M Gaietto is a lens-based practitioner working and living in London. Her research is centred on examining small components of nonhuman agency, allowing for momentary lapses in preconceived notions, and exploring the impacts of nonhumans acting upon and influencing humans. Her latest project, Unfixed Consciousness/Positive Unconciousness, analyzes the impact of human activities on ecosystems throughout Alachua County.
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.
Matityahu Neriya is a portrait and wildlife photographer based in Judean Desert, Israel. He constantly searches for emotions, textures, and colors to tell an interesting story. He likes to shoot environmental portraits in difficult-to-reach locations. His captured experiences are the result of remaining open to his surroundings allowing for the subject to evoke the scene and reveal its true essence.
Artist and teacher of fine arts from Argentina, Chary Hilu is a member of the Association of Visual Artists of Argentina. Her works are conceived as a response to the sensations, feelings, and experiences evoked by extreme situations. They adapt to the context and are changed according to the context. They acquire an expressive power that results from the combination of technique and emotion.
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.
Beatrice Spadea is a visual artist based in Italy. With her sensibility, the artist plays with the power of images to evoke surreal scenarios. Beatrice's work breaks through space and reveals an imaginative world that brings us beyond the heaviness of reality. Reconnecting with previously explored themes, at the beginning of 2022 Beatrice has created her first NFT collection of "Masks."
Chelsea Brown is an artist and poet based in the U.S. She creates work inspired by her chronic illness and the feeling of losing autonomy and being out of control of her body, mind, and connection to others. Most of her artwork features the female form, paired with symbols that narrate power and vulnerability, but ultimately empowerment.
Yien Xu is a Chinese photographer currently based in Los Angeles, California. Art is a tool for the artist to explore the world. It allows him to understand how the world runs, form the whole structure of the world in his mind, and then express his perception of the world via art. Inspired by this, his latest works shifted to a surrealist style based on reality yet differed from it, conveying a false sense of truth.
Phyllis Wong is a visual artist and architect based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The Factory is an ongoing series that serves to critique the effects of industrial dairy farming through a collection of narrated still life. Its compositions showcase information and data related to the production in the years 2019 and 2020 and translate various specifications and statistics, illustrated by coloured rings.
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.
