Thomas C. Chung is a Chinese-Australian contemporary artist based in Helsinki & Sydney. His latest project, the exhibition The Sea That Stands Before Me…, contemplates the notion of one's devotion to living as a form of armament. Chung's conceptual practice continues its inquiries into psychology, folklore, mythology, and philosophy, binding them as a cohesive tale.
Jewan Goo is a research-based photographer who focuses on reexamining and reconstructing the fading history of Korea during the Japanese colonial period. His work is deeply connected to contemporary issues within institutional archives and history education, which are often biased and subject to political control or censorship by governmental or educational authorities.
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.
Kohlben Vodden is an Australian-born self-taught artist living and working in London, UK. His obsession with psychological concepts such as identity and aesthetics is central to his practice.Focusing on abstracted figurative works in oil paint, he employs insights from psychology and uses a bold geometric style with intense colour palettes to command the viewers’ attention and communicate stories of identity.
Michael Vincent Manalo is a visual artist who recently focused on acrylic paintings, photo manipulation, and installations. In his work, the subjects are represented through a mix of imagined and realistic images, playing with the expectations of the viewer and raising questions about the role that human emotions play in memory.
The2vvo is an artist duo from Kazakhstan currently living between Berlin and Los Angeles, made up of Eldar Tagi (sound art) and Lena Pozdnyakova (sculpture, architecture, visual arts). The duo explores the complicated dynamics between cultures and spaces, objects and processes through sound, sculpting, visual art, and performance.
Shan Xu is a Multi-Media artist based in San Francisco and Beijing. Shan is an experimental, future-oriented new media artist whose passion lies in challenging cultural stereotypes and social preconceptions through building experiences of future-present intersections. Her works expand technologies' possibilities to address "digital and natural" challenges and inspire conversation through a digital and natural conflict lens.
Yihuang Zhou is a graphic designer and artist. He uses type as the vehicle for discussions on the complex world. Yihuang explores the conversation and collision between Western and Eastern cultures and social constructs with a particular interest in languages and writing systems. He works across disciplines, including print, digital, industrial, and spatial design.
Gøneja ✷ is a photographer and totemic sculptor based in Berlin. His practice represents an artistic quest to establish a connection with the spiritual world and explore it within the boundaries of the contemporary urban context. He combines classical photography and totemic sculpture to unfold a new mythological narrative. Spirituality is a means to discern contemporary mythological possibilities and unravel them in his work as active magical forces.
Dasha Lyubimova is a Choreographer, Filmmaker, and Art Director, based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The main feature of her project is the «dance language». Although there are no words, Dasha creates projects that will be clear without any words to everybody. This genre of art is called videodance or screendance, and it mixes choreography and storytelling. Dasha also touches on social themes trying to make people know, feel and live the problems.
Rio Chen communicates through objects, graphics, and casual conversation. He focuses on social-political contents that address ethical concerns, SpicyPop culture in contemporary art, and design practice. He advocates the use of local and regional political language in design via organizing the workshop series Satellite Project and the social media platform randr.
Diana Suárez is a Mexican artist, based in Mexico City. She is a perceptive and restless artist. Interested in the world of graphics, she brings into play the act of representation using the language of drawing and the process of engraving to reflect on the psychogeographic, turning each work into a communicative device to establish collective dialogues.
Milena ZeVu is a Serbian artist based in Belgrade. She always wanted her art to be more dynamic. Her latest series, ArtWalks, emphasizes her need to free art from the conventional exhibition space and the dominant western system of contemporary art, to which most artists are strongly subordinated. Milena unites with her art to defend it and preserve art's supreme independence and freedom.
Liu Gongjie is a designer and visual artist based in London. His latest project, Emotionally Harmonious Cyborg Future, is a speculative design work. It explores a possible future in the form of a dance drama, where human beings take the initiative to transform themselves into a cyborg that combines the physical and mechanical and can perceive the emotions of others directly.
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.
