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.
Billy De Luca is a non-fiction and short story writer and visual artist practising in Madrid. His fields of knowledge are based in the arts and culture spheres, including fashion, contemporary and modern art, and travel. His cultural background has heavily influenced his perspectives. In this article, he delves into the production and ultimately the core meaning of Japanese conceptual artist On Kawara.
Rūta Matulevičiūtė is a painter and interdisciplinary artist. She is based in Vilnius, where, with five colleagues, she co-founded the artist-run space and studios "Tapytoju studijos". Her method is consciousness-based creativity with a focus on personal development. For this reason, she focuses on meditation, psychology, ancient traditions, and, most importantly, the broad Baltic mythology rooted in Indo-European culture.
Gianluca Lattuada is an Italian artist, who was born in 1988. Currently, he lives and works between Milan and Madrid. The recurring themes in Lattuada’s work are the energy of bodies, eroticism, violence and the transience of life (“memento mori” philosophy). His work has two goals: to give an overview of the issues of contemporary society and to create a new vision of the world that can help taking a step forward tomorrow.
Caitlin is a multidisciplinary surrealist completing her master's degree at the University of Sunderland. Working with a plethora of mediums, Smith favours relief printmaking processes & painting, acrylic being her preferred choice. At present, her practice explores the figurative narrative of the internalised femme fatale, conjuring fragmented paintings and prints.
Bo Zhang is an artist, designer, and co-curator, based between Beijing and New York. Creativity and originality are the most solid foundations on which his works can be recognized and loved. He believes a good artwork should be sentimental, have a soul, not a cold entity, but a wonderful interaction with people. He is the founder of Desz office, a young creative studio that mixes art, design, material, and communications.
Leslie García Blanco is a visual artist of Cuban origin who lives between Cuba and Switzerland. His work is characterized by the versatility of his staging as well as his constant concern for the poetics of everyday life. García Blanco finds reasons and procedures that displaces with apparent naturalness and spontaneity to the field of visual arts.
Bobby is an “end-to-end” digital artist with specialised skills in image/video processing, digital generative and derivatives arts, etc. Bobby believes the introduction of digital science into arts would eventually bring about a paradigm switch as to how arts would be appreciated in the future, particularly in its form and related presentation.
Xuanlin Ye tasks himself with finding a new genre of visual expression that is representative of the contemporary Asian geopolitical psyche without the influence of Western stereotypes. The two main strands of his work include taking the imagery of traditional Asian tropes and questioning it on the canvas in a humorous or insouciant way through the physical manipulation of paint.
RUNA (aka Rute Norte) lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. She is now finishing a Master's Degree in Painting, at Fine Arts Faculty, University of Lisbon. Her paintings can either refer to a memory, or be simple ideas and concepts that pass at the moment. As an artist-traveller, she writes travel chronicles accompanied by photos and tells a story through this trimediality: text, photography, and painting.
Elaine B. Chao is a traditional-digital hybrid artist working in Queens, NY. Expanding on traditional techniques, she first composes paintings on canvas or paper using acrylic, oil, and other mixed media. She then imports the paintings into image manipulation programs to blend, apply filters, and run actions. The final digital work is printed or uploaded to an AR app for display.
Ruth Egon is a British artist based in Scotland. Uplifting and inspiring people through her bold colour palette, she hopes to engage people in their environment and explores nature through a positive and intriguing lens. Taking reference from abstract artists, her landscapes are a tapestry of beautiful abstract space and symbolic representations. She is fascinated by natural beauty and the human experience.
Alicja Klimek is a Polish artist, based in Krakow. She delves into the subconsciousness, destroys the false identity, and finds in humans the Truth that flows from the very nature of existence. What you are looking at grows. She sees the potential in this unique time. This is the perfect time to Return To The Inside, in which she follows the Law of the Desert.
Yang Liu (Lizzy Liu) is a director, producer, and writer based in Los Angeles, California. Liu has written and directed several award-winning films in the past, including A Matter of Time, World Without End, and Tessellation. Her work always includes the elements of critical analysis and radical opinions towards the environment where she lives, and her films create a strong contrast and irony between the content and format.
Andrea Anderson Gluckman is an international award-winning photographer and writer who uses her platforms of academics, activism, and art to witness and leverage the stories of communities devastated by mass violence. She is currently based out of Rochester, New York, where she teaches and works collaboratively with artistic communities on issues of social justice, indigenous truth-telling, and anti-racism work.
Sophie Ruoyu Zhang is a Chinese artist, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Working as a "diffraction apparatus", her practice utilizes multiple natural materials (napa cabbage, wine, coffee, etc.). Her oil painting, printmaking, and performance respond to and reinterpret the natural objects that are in a limbo of recognition, permeating poetics on the threshold of the subjecthood, the recognizable and the representable.
Painting is just like a bridge for Michael Kwong, linking himself and the outside world together. He can express his attitude toward life and his thought about things, and more importantly, he can interact with people through his artworks. He wants to use his painting to spread a positive power to people and bring a better and prettier world to people through his paintings.
Haoxuan Chen is a Chinese artist, based in Changsha. Chen Haoxuan often paints teenagers in different scenes, and those teenagers are symbolic and can be seen as his own narrative about himself. There will also be frequent images of black cats, for whom the black cat is symbolized by the other. These objects are very important to him, and they are related to them, and then uses strong colors to express their concern for their relevance.
Lucy Papadopoulos is a sound artist and researcher thinking through waveforms to investigate how meaning is created at the outer limits of what is knowable. She uses animist, new materialist, and quantum physics philosophy as a gateway for perception into the performativity or "alive-ness" of matter. Her practice extends across film, electronics, interaction, sound, sculpture, creative coding, and performance.
Marco Lando's work is influenced by his New York theatre background. Combining existential plot lines, dramatic lighting, and surrealist stage design, the otherworldly mise-en-scenes he creates operate on a visceral, symbolic level. His latest series, the post-apocalyptic realm of Alchemy, evokes a timeless spiritual abyss where atonement and purification seem forever out of reach.
Allan Linder is a prolific, award-winning artist with more than thirty years of experience producing a wide range of artwork using multiple mediums and subject matter. He fabricates paintings, drawings, digital artwork, mixed media artworks, and sculptures, using a variety of materials and substrates. His recent work Cityscapes are a collection of hand-painted artworks scanned at high resolution and digitally painted.
