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.
Esther Tang is an illustrator and designer based in New York City. Her approach involves seamlessly blending traditional drawing techniques with modern computer-aided methods to craft her pieces. As an illustrator, she thinks that her value resides in expressing her opinions and presenting issues through her work, inspiring her audience, and igniting discussions.
Yu Chen is a visual artist, designer, and lecturer with an MFA Degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His focus is on branding, art direction, and 3D graphics design. His project Let Parents Stay focuses on helping the people of Jinling Village, a designated poverty-stricken area - to inherit and promote the culture of Han Embroidery, a traditional technique from China.
Joanna Hoge (she/they) is a queer artist and designer based in Denver, Colorado. They apply their background in psychology and interest in medicine to create works that explore the dynamic between subjective identity and objectifiable body. Hoge's work is largely inspired by the division of somatic and psychological experiences in Western culture.
Tokie Wang is a Chinese choreographer, dancer, and visual artist currently based in Los Angeles. "RECORDING IN PROCESS" is a thought-provoking art piece that delves into the impact of surveillance systems on our daily lives. The project aims to recreate a "living space" by discreetly placing multiple hidden cameras to record performers while simultaneously live-streaming the recordings within the same space.
Hall'Makwanda is a collective composed of Julia Hall and Matisse Makwanda, both of whom are transdisciplinary artists. Their individual work led them to explore artistic collaboration in 2016. With a keen interest in symbolism, experimental languages, and new media, the duo explores the realms of alchemy and active spirituality; each creation serves as an opportunity to delve into the multidimensionality of human existence.
Shiqing Chen uses multiple visual languages and elements to communicate through print, website, and digital media. Her works focus on cross-medium storytelling and visual communication. During the pandemic, she became interested in the organic errors and uncertainties of data. By leveraging available technologies, she aims to present data through sounds, games, performances, and other means.
Connor Daly is a British fine art photographer from Jersey (Channel Islands), currently based in the UK. His work explores varying levels of colour and compositional effects that provoke spatial ambiguity, using a painterly and abstract style that is evocative of nostalgia, memory, and the passing of time. Furthermore, his work is predominantly concerned with the depiction of a space, exploring broad visual styles.
Hushang Omidizadeh, born in 1968, is a multidisciplinary artist based in Germany. In his art, Hushang Omidizadeh delves into diverse facets of human nature, interpersonal relationships, diversity, and human needs. In his series "SURFACE," the artist abandons the use of traditional brushes and instead directly applies color to his models' bodies. These colors are then transferred onto the canvas when pressed, leaving imprints of the models' own bodies.
With a background in tattooing, Ben Große-Johannböcke, born in Melle, Germany, in 2002, explores the relationship between musical compositions and visual arts. A large part of his work consists of graphite drawings on canvas, isolated mark-making with neither form nor colour. These patterns/structures aim to visually recreate certain parts of the musical composition they respond to.
Varvara Sosedova is a Russian artist, based in Kaliningrad, Russia. Varia Stern’s practice is the result of an interdisciplinary exploration of historical and contemporary phenomena. Using ancient oriental philosophical practices, she explores the human connection to the world, exposing historical and cultural parallels in history. She uses the techniques of symbolism and creates the interpenetration of different cultures by mashing them up.
Anna Salenko (b. 1990, Vladivostok, based in Hong Kong ) shares her unique style as a fusion of cultures and captures the intersection of the visible world with our inner thoughts and perceptions. Anna's art is a reflection of a fleeting moment in the human mind. Anna Salenko's works embody philosophy with the potential to make a difference in the world and transform the lives of those connected to her art.
Art took hold of Ofer Shomron at the advanced age of 60. Recurring dreams about colors flowing around him convinced Ofer to embark on a new path. He is an avid colorist. He loves color and exploring color and likes to place strong, expressive colors side by side. His curiosity about the world is the motivation and energy for his artistic quest. He mostly paints in oil and occasionally uses a mixed technique.
Andrés Mario de Varona was born in 1996 and grew up in Miami as a first-generation Cuban-American with two Cuban families. Art is a tool for Andrés to measure cycles of indignation and healing, our growth as human beings, and as a way to record victories. What he aims to create is an attempt to enter the collective human experience, as well as an access point into himself.
Jia Hao (b. 1990, China) is a visual artist based in the Yunnan province of China, with a BA in Fine Art from the State University of New York in Albany. Jia Hao works predominantly in photography and collage, building surreal narratives within her work. Her main focus is on the human body and the environment, and through her work, she creates a dialogue about the expression and concealment of human identity.
Maria Petroff is a self-taught figurative artist living between two countries: Russia and Canada. Maria defines her artistic style as critical realism. She likes to paint people who marked our history, whether they are politicians, scientists, artists, philosophers, or fictional characters. The artist gets inspired by today’s world events, trying to thoroughly study the other non-official side of the story.
Claude Stahel, born in 1966, lives and works in Zurich. With his latest works, Stahel is currently questioning the geopolitical tensions in Europe and Ukraine. His series TV Potemkin uses functional portable televisions from the 80s cast in epoxy cubes. The conservation prohibits any following manipulation of the devices and recalls political propaganda and its prohibition of choices.
Bat Chen Sneir's pictorial compositions examine the relationship between nature and culture and their traces on each other, inviting the viewer to delve deeper and discover modes of observation. The painting tries to describe what cannot be defined and deciphered towards an open and unlabeled space where even the concrete is broken down into its smallest particles and still continues to exist in a special way.
Paula Fernández López is a Spanish designer, born in Seville in 2002. Paula's works of art focus on the creative process's conceptual basis. It allows one to get a free interpretation of her designs, which norms and standards show very clearly and identify aesthetics. Ripped textures, a short neutral color palette, and an avant-garde style are the main elements that make her different and define her as an artist.
Founded in 2023 by the dynamic sisters Drs. Pamela and Michele Chrabieh, Kulturnest (“the nest of culture”), emerges as a vibrant cultural oasis in Sin-el-Fil, Lebanon. This cultural haven, which was lovingly restored from an early 20th-century family house, breathes life into a neighborhood yearning for versatile arts and culture venues. The inaugural exhibition, Unyielding, just opened on October 28th, 2023.
Kevin Costello is an American artist, currently living and working in New York. Complexity and strength, with vulnerability and hopelessness, Costello’s recent works seek to expose a delicate coexistence between a sense of calm and structured safety and the underlying gravity of the unpredictable tension that now pulls at us. The play of line, structure, and pattern at the cliffs edge.
