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.
Jooyoung is a tattoo artist active in Korea. To her, color is a tool for the senses, and she believes that it is the best tool to express subjectivity well and properly communicate the content with others. Tattoos are usually delicate, and a lot of colors are used. She is trying to establish a positive connection between humans and nature and to give customers bright and positive tattoos through various colors.
Zheng Wu is an experimental filmmaker born and raised in China before moving to the USA. Her works range from realistic to abstract and always involve social issues, philosophy, poetry, and photography. She dives into traditional narrative filmmaking and explores experimental filmmaking, art installation, multi-media, and video art, focusing on contemporary youth's thoughts and their rebellion against reality.
Caroline Kampfraath is a Dutch sculptor from Amsterdam. Her works consist primarily of elements that she fuses into the total artwork, often thematic pieces and installations. Caroline is socially driven, both as a person and as an artist. In her work, she highlights the urgency and impact of global crises, which are currently upon us and permeate our collective consciousness.
Adrianna Wasinska-Fabian is an Australia-based artist, a horse-riding instructor, and a passionate naturalist and traveler. Adrianna's work evokes nature. It is her biggest and finest inspiration. Nature enables her to be a part of something bigger; it expands her perspective and liberates her from the outside world. The strong connection she has with it gives her freedom and power during the process of creating.
Zheng Minzhi is a multidisciplinary artist from China, based in Chicago. Her work reveals the hidden and complex connections between the human body, machinery, and the inherent violence within these relationships, drawing from personal narratives. Within this private narrative framework, decaying spaces, blurred tragedies, dreams, and indulgent bodies roam freely, embracing their nomadic nature.
Ryan Muchen Wang is a visual artist and filmmaker based in New York. His film and video work often use a mixture of fiction, documentary, and experimental genres to examine place, displacement, and the issue of memory. His recent video and installation also examine and construct different kinds of storytelling and visual narratives. Many of his moving image work embraces the avant-garde and essayistic modes of fiction and non-fiction cinema.
Born and living in Tel Aviv, Israel, Ami Shinar is an architect and visual artist. Shinar's art echoes actual situations he experiences in his hometown Tel Aviv or, in general, in Israel. Be it on the local level – such as his urban scapes - or his more politically direct series of demonstrations against the government and its corrupt politicians. Shinar's art is, therefore, much involved in his everyday reality, with the hope of opening the eyes of the viewer.
Tribambuka (aka Anastasia Beltyukova) is a London-based multidisciplinary artist, award-winning illustrator, and animation director working predominantly in painting and printmaking. Her practice is concerned with the themes of shifting identity, home, and belonging. As a British artist with Russian roots, she takes a critical approach to the complexities of her heritage through a contemporary lens of feminist and mythological thinking.
New York City-based multimedia artist Qinru Zhang has been exploring identity, femininity, and uncanniness using digital mediums, including 3D animation and mixed reality. Through observing society's sexualization of femininity, Zhang appropriates, détourns, and normalizes feminine stereotypes to challenge existing gender norms. She advocates for freedom of choice in identity representations and calls for female empowerment.
Carolina Amaya is a Colombian artist, based in Berlin. She explores the concept of eroticism through the lenses of pleasure, consent, self-love, fears, and sensuality. Her work aims to provoke introspection and evoke emotions through a range of media, a variety of hairy objects, solid colors and extremely black lines - with her own body as the main object of the image.
Dairu Ren is a talented fashion designer based in New York City. Dairu was born and raised in China and began learning knitting and crochet at the age of eleven, influenced by her native country. Her work is characterized by the reinvention of traditional handicraft techniques through the use of vibrant colors and three-dimensional textures. Each collection by Dairu Ren tells a unique and fascinating story through meticulously created components.
Wowser Ng is a China-born, London-based visual artist. His work functions by appropriating fashion products and commodities. These sleek and gorgeous images depict Generation Z and the dangers of continuing to support materialism. He develops the painting practice of combining abstract and Pop with a visual narrative to reveal the pop culture under the influence of the current society.
Tianyi Sun is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher based between New York and Beijing. She uses a diverse range of strategies, including installation, film, sculpture, painting, and physical computation. Her latest project, Disposable Utensils, is an interactive installation that incorporates focused and ambient sound, multi-channel projection mapping, motion sensors, along with sculptural assemblages.
Jiang Geping is a senior concept designer, illustrator, comic artist, and lecturer based in China. The artist questions whether robots should have the same rights as humans and what that would mean for our society. The series depicts robots with human-like features, raising the question of how we define humanity and where we draw the line between humans and machines.
Patrícia Abreu is a Brazilian visual artist. Themes about Time, Memory, and the Natural World are a constant presence in her work. She has always been interested in the mysteries of Nature's life, which is covered beyond the visible surfaces that envelopes what we see and blur what we imagine. Her series of photographs titled Echoing Humanity was shot in Cisco, a ghost town in Utah, USA, in January 2019.
Song Lu is an artist born in Guizhou, China, in 1994. As a visual artist currently based in Shanghai, Song Lu's creative practice primarily focuses on photography, video, and 3D animation. Through her works, she explores and expresses a range of emotions and feelings, often incorporating elements of humor, surrealism, and childlike wonder in a playful and whimsical style.
Evgeniya Strygina is a London-based contemporary artist specializing in landscape and architecture photography. She captures urban and natural environments to highlight their relation to and their autonomy from human beings. To make the viewer see aspects of the landscape that routinely go unnoticed, she offers a different perspective and deliberately strips down the style of her photographs.
Nae Zerka is an Austrian artist, based in Salzburg, Austria. In the age of frequent digital disruption, visual artist Nae Zerka showcases in his work the promising possibilities of painting with technology. His artistic practice infuses visual elements borrowed from these disciplines with a painterly touch. Together with the use of contrasts and line work, they form new transformed worlds made possible by the digital realm.
Annet Katan, originally from Ukraine, is a photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Annet's approach to her work is marked by a unique blend of art direction, photography, and styling. Her latest series, FakeFluence(r), analyzes the world of influencers with its artificial and misleading promotional images, exposing the hidden reality of the industry’s dark, glamorous side.
Jikke Lesterhuis is a multidisciplinary artist from the Netherlands, currently based in Amsterdam. She never stopped drawing from the moment she learned how to use a pencil. Jikke currently focuses on ways to bring the 2D medium into a 3D space. Using her curiosity and eagerness to learn, she keeps discovering new sides of herself that reflect in her work.
