Jake Kenobi is a self-taught painter and mixed media artist based in Bend, OR. He uses the inevitability of death as motivation to explore mental health through darkly tropical works that expose vulnerability, illuminating the unseen and embracing both light and dark.

Chie Yoshida is a Japanese artist, currently based in Tokyo. After marrying her Russian husband (quarter Russian and quarter Ukrainian), she began presenting works on the themes of war and censorship. She currently explores themes of freedom of expression.

Graduated in Architecture and trained in azulejo painting and ceramics in Lisbon, Aurore Monteil develops a multidisciplinary artistic practice rooted in architecture, conceived not only as a discipline of construction but as a sensitive, vibrational, and universal language. Her work explores the impact of materials, forms, and spaces on both body and mind.

Dana Wang is a photographer and cinematographer based in London, currently working primarily in the camera department on film sets. Themes of identity, nature, and human connection recur throughout her practice, carrying with them a cinematic subtlety and rhythm that flows seamlessly between her film and photographic projects.

Rhea Hu is an illustrator and visual storyteller pursuing an MFA in Illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. With a background in Traditional Chinese Medicine, her interdisciplinary practice spans drawing, digital fabrication, and book arts. She constructs visual languages that are distilled and deliberate, infused with tension, precision and irony.

Kate Ferguson (USA) is a photographer, writer, and filmmaker based in Mexico City. Her multidisciplinary practice is rooted in an appreciation for the threshold moments where transformation occurs and realities blur. hrough her work, she considers nostalgic liminality, the sensation of memory, and decisions that lead to psychological and spiritual evolution.

Yang Lu's work resists human-centred narratives and seeks to dismantle the illusions that sustain them. Yang creates objects that operate as fragments from elsewhere, mirrored forms, alien inscriptions, and transparent architectures that neither reflect us fully nor explain themselves. These works emerge from a refusal to reduce existence to binaries: life and death, self and other, human and nonhuman.

Currently on view at Palazzo Mora in Venice, Temporary Structures, Eternal Structures is a collaborative project by Kfir Galatia‑Azulay and Suly Bornstein Wolff, created specifically as a duo installation. Their work is featured as part of the expansive international group exhibition organised by ECC‑Italy, Time Space Existence, on the occasion of the 2025 Architecture Biennale of Venice.

Judie Huier Zhao has built a distinctive career that spans continents, cultures, and creative disciplines, establishing herself as an influential figure in the international art world. From her base in New York City, Zhao operates at the intersection of arts education, curatorial practice, and cultural innovation, demonstrating how cross-cultural insight and strategic thinking can reshape art engagement on a global scale.

Sahasa is a Dutch, European artist who primarily works in sculpture and draws inspiration from the natural world, with a particular focus on ocean and coral reef ecosystems. Sahasa's interest in octopuses began around 2017, and since then, they have continued to explore and expand upon this subject through a variety of materials and techniques.

Kamila Hyo’s artistic practice is rooted in oil painting and explores the interplay of space, light, and colour. Her creative process is not a linear act of execution, but a slow unfolding, a shaping and transformation of the subject over time. Each motif undergoes a silent metamorphosis while remaining anchored in its essential nature, as if suspended in a timeless moment.

Curated by Kulturnest co-founder & CEO Dr. Pamela Chrabieh, Aftermaths gathers 27 local and international creatives. The exhibition explores what follows traumas, collapse, or any experience one undergoes, whether positive, negative, or ambiguous; through war, displacement, climate crisis, identity shifts, or intimate ruptures.

Darious Shan is a media artist and designer working across speculative design, interactive media, and moving image. Darious Shan’s artistic practice investigates how objects, technologies, and narratives can carry emotional weight across time and imagined futures. Her work often positions design as both a protective medium and a poetic form of misinterpretation.

Zhi-Jiang Shan is an interior designer known for his cross-cultural design sensibility and poetic spatial expression. He often draws inspiration from classical Chinese landscapes, local craftsmanship, and symbolic spatial rituals, transforming them into immersive environments that resonate with modern life. His projects are not only functional but emotionally engaging.

Based in London, Chinese artist Yuying Li translates ancient Eastern philosophies into contemporary visual narratives. Her work, which often features monoprint, ink wash, and mixed media, explores the "concretisation" of a spiritual home. She converges elements of the human body, nature, and deep space to blur the lines between them, echoing the Taoist ideal of "human and nature in one."

Kuan-Yu Chou is a Taiwanese visual artist currently based in London. Focusing on body memories and inner experiences, her work invites viewers into a silent, tangible visual realm that intertwines body, emotion, and dreams. Through paintings, photographs, and installations, she creates a space where the viewer can reflect on vulnerability, suffering, and survival.

Bee Jones (Motionmoth) is a queer photographer and visual artist based in Manchester, but hailing from West Yorkshire. Drawing on important sociopolitical themes such as sexuality and class, Jones consistently endeavours to push their own life's narrative and the stories of those around them into their work.

Jace Ambwani is an American artist and junior architect based in Berlin, Germany. Her early‬ work explores themes of anonymity, familiarity, and spatial perception through painting, drawing,‬ and printmaking. More recently, she has incorporated sculptural methods and materials to delve‬ into themes of mortality and her evolving experiences of womanhood.‬

Rui Wang is a cross-disciplinary designer and creative artist working across visual design, art direction, and photography. His series Not Everything Was Seen explores absence as a form of presence, and love as something that resists full visibility. The images do not act as evidence, but as traces, fragments left by intimacy and time. Each frame suggests what is deeply felt but never fully seen.

KristofLab is a Budapest-based interdisciplinary artist. Transitory media, such as video and sound, play a central role in his practice. Through an interdisciplinary approach, KristofLab continuously seeks to expand and challenge his own perspective. In his work, he explores social concerns, including globalisation and its consequences, environmental issues, war, and social inequalities.

Doug Winter is a semi-sighted North American conceptual photographic artist and filmmaker whose artworks focus on the preoccupation of light and non-figurative forms. Doug's non-representational photographs of conventional objects and their environments are derived from the human body's resilience to adapt and accommodate a physical disability and emotional trauma.

Ari Mei-Dan is a Boston-based multidisciplinary photographer and filmmaker. Whether through portraiture, concert photography, or documenting the things around her, she strives to capture moments of high emotion and true human-ness. Her work draws inspiration from artists like Annie Leibovitz, Spike Jonze, Nick Ut, as well as the very people around her. 

Esra Sakar (b. 1992, Istanbul) is a fine art photographer and visual artist whose work blends traditional craftsmanship with contemporary conceptual approaches. She draws on mythology, psychology, and archetypes to create visual narratives exploring memory, the subconscious, and identity. Her work has been exhibited internationally in London, Milan, Glasgow, Lancaster, and Istanbul.

R. Scott MacLeay is a photographer and videographer based in Brazil. He views all lens-based art as documentary, regardless of the subject. His new media art deals with existential themes, often employing the first person in performance-based work. He explores situations rather than moments and as such, his work is focused on notions of evolution, transformation and repetition.

Xi Liu is a Chinese interdisciplinary artist. She creates oil paintings, prints, and evolving ecosystem-based installations using handmade paper and pigments derived from plants. Rooted in Taoist and Buddhist philosophy and Jungian psychology, Liu's work explores impermanence, origin, and spiritual transformation.

Zhuoyu Zhang is a new media artist from Beijing, currently based in New York. Working across video installation, interactive storytelling, and algorithmic systems, Zhang draws from internet subcultures, personal archives, and speculative fiction to construct intimate yet dissonant environments that reflect on surveillance, disembodiment, and affective labour within visual regimes shaped by data.

Ziggy Yang is a Chinese installation and new media artist based in New York. His practice explores the complex dialogue between human emotions, cultural conditioning, and technology, positioning technology as both an interactive medium and a conceptual framework. Yang employs mechanical systems, programmable physical computing, artificial intelligence, and synthetic materials.

Cizzoe Yi Wang (b. 2000, China) is an interdisciplinary artist who grew up in the UK. She is working across installation, performance, sculpture, and documentary filmmaking. Conceptually driven and informed by her background in social anthropology, her practice explores human interaction as a structured game governed by societal rules.

Joana Pereira da Costa is a performance-based multidisciplinary artist whose work unfolds at the intersection of body, memory, and resistance. Drawing upon lived experience, feminist philosophy, and poetic inquiry, her practice engages performance as both method and metaphor, a space where the self is simultaneously deconstructed and reassembled.

Blanca de la Cruz is an artistic photographer and author of the book Reinventing Oneself in the Face of Adversity. Her work is born from stillness, driven by the need to transform pain into beauty. She explores themes such as vulnerability, resilience, identity, and the creativity woven into everyday life. Her images speak of transformation and the beauty that resides within human vulnerability.

Rodri is a Mexican, Muslim emerging artist, lawyer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist living in Dubai. He aims to help people in Mexico's courts while pursuing a career as a famous artist. To achieve this, he moved to the U.A.E., brought his guitar, and began developing his skills. He has visions and brings them into reality; it's about raising others' hearts through Rock.

Julio Merino is a visual creative specialised in photography and graphic design, based between Seville and Cadiz. With a technical background in Image Capture, Lighting, and Graphic Design, his work stands at the intersection of visual storytelling, branding, and art direction. His photographic approach is defined by a strong sense of composition, intentional use of light and colour.

Sapphire Zhang (Shiyu Zhang) is a Chinese female artist based in the UK. Her interdisciplinary practice merges psychology and art, drawing on an early background in spatial design to explore the relationship between space and human emotion. Working across collage, abstract painting, and installation, her work centres on examining and reconfiguring the structure of emotional experience.

Lili Shen is a London-based artist working at the intersection of interaction design, data visualisation, and embodied experience. Her practice centres on the body, both physical and emotional, as shaped by technology. Exploring themes of sleep, digital tracking, and exercise in immersive environments, Shen transforms physiological data into visual and sonic narratives.

Zhanyi Chen uses weather satellite data, early Space Age archives, and speculative storytelling, she makes objects that propose how celestial and other infrastructural technologies, from language to electronics, can be strategically misused to prioritise human experience over functionality.

Ailyn Lee is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York. Working with hand-sculpted stone clay, found objects, and drawings on canvas, she creates dreamlike scenes that explore memory, femininity, and transformation. Her creative process often begins with automatic drawings or fragments of dreams, allowing subconscious imagery to surface organically.

Zhuyang Liu is a trans-media artist whose practice spans sound, performance, film, moving images, writing, and installation. Their work interrogates identity, labour, technocracy, and the body through immersive, often surreal narratives. Zhuyang’s hybrid works challenge perception, collapsing reality and fiction into multisensory experiences that question how we live, relate, and imagine.

Jiashun Zhou is a fibre artist whose work intricately explores the intersection of memory, space, and emotion through weaving. His artistic practice transforms personal experiences and fleeting moments into tangible, three-dimensional forms. Jiashun Zhou’s work is deeply influenced by his desire to decelerate the rapid pace of modern life and draw attention to the often-overlooked details.

Halim Madi is a programmer, poet, and modern-day storyteller born in Beirut, Lebanon, who now lives and works across San Francisco, Beirut, and Paris. Halim explores migrant, queer, and cyborg consciousnesses, weaving new understandings from the collisions of disparate worldscapes. Their work collects and performs stories of border-crossing bodies that unlock the imagination of new futures.

Yasuaki Matsuura is a Tokyo-based contemporary artist whose practice centres on the theme of “new memory.” He uses the camera, its form, function, and cultural role, not just as a tool, but as both subject and medium. His works invite users to slow down, to look, and to feel the presence of time and others. Each camera is not just a device, but a proposition.

Kewei Zhao is a designer and founder of Studio ZKW in New York. Her work is defined by a poetic approach to form, a commitment to craftsmanship, and a deep interest in material exploration. Blurring the boundaries between furniture, sculpture, and textile, she creates objects that are both functionally grounded and conceptually unique.

Yanhua Feng is a Chinese-born artist based in San Francisco, with studios in Vancouver and Beijing. Working in acrylic on canvas, she constructs layered surfaces that hold contradiction. While abstract, her work is rooted in the emotional architecture of contemporary life, its intimacy and instability. Female bodies, domestic space, and unspoken gestures are all recurring themes.

Elizabeth Glazko is a Los Angeles–based photographer and visual artist specialising in cinematic portraiture and stylised visual storytelling. With over a decade of experience, she has built a practice that bridges the worlds of film, fashion, and fine art. Wolfilm, her ongoing body of work, s a personal archive of moments suspended between memory and fiction, shaped more by feeling than fact.

Yiqing Lei is a nomadic artist currently landed in Shenzhen. Intention, labour and wandering are important to their practice. Yiqing’s practice involves the eradication and reimagining of past roots and being. They articulate words, sculptures, photos, and actions to create a symbiotic total, which is often obsessed with the ephemera, fragmented, atmospheric landscape.

Lili Xie engages with the realms of photography, video, performance, and ceramics in her artistic practice. The evolution of her work is an ongoing journey of self-exploration, inquiry, and the deconstruction of her own identity. Through these diverse mediums, she navigates the complex landscape of personal introspection and transformation.

Ruonan Shen is a visual artist and photographer based in London. Her work engages with gender expression and transformation, focusing on China’s emerging drag scene as a lens through which to question the boundaries of beauty, strength, and self-presentation. Shen creates highly staged environments that balance intimacy and control, presence and absence.

Rose Ansari is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist, creative technologist, and computational media researcher. Her research-based art practice explores cyborg and post-human theories, sensory distortion, and telecommunication through laboratory-driven processes. She creates immersive environments that blend technology, cognitive science, and poetic expression.

Yixuan Nie is a rising multidisciplinary artist and fashion designer based in New York, whose work has been celebrated for its bold narrative power and innovative vision. Originally from Beijing, she draws profound inspiration from the layered textures of hutong life, infusing them with global relevance and artistic depth. She also works across styling, printmaking, and illustration.

Ollie Hongji Li is a fiber artist and textile designer based in New York City. Drawing inspiration from nature and religion, Ollie creates textile sculpture using knotting, knitting, crocheting, spinning, and natural dye. Ollie's art reinterprets the traditional yin-yang dichotomy and offers a new perspective on gender roles.

Marika Junikajtes is a mixed media artist based near Frankfurt, Germany. Her work spans expressive portraiture, abstract compositions, and fantastical worlds, each rooted in personal experience and emotional symbolism. She paints on canvas using acrylics, oils, and pouring mediums. Her portraits explore themes of identity, vulnerability, and strength through a lens of abstract realism.

Buer Guo is a contemporary Chinese artist whose practice explores universal values through a deeply personal lens shaped by mythology, philosophy, and cross-cultural experience. Her paintings question the limits of human perception and imagination, aiming to expand the viewer’s sensory awareness and relationship with the world.

Zj Pan lives and works in Chicago, US. Pan works with sculpture, performance, and new media, meditating and investigating the uncanniness of our modern human condition. Working to resist the shocks and simulations in everyday life, he uses animation and humour to transform and demystify objects. Pan animates objects' forms and functions in a DIY approach with sculptural sensibilities.

Lexiong Ying is an interdisciplinary artist working across multiple visual media. Her practice is driven by a critical engagement with contemporary society, drawing upon personal experiences and an acute awareness of the evolving social landscape. Her work explores themes such as the fragility of human relationships, the illusions of consumerism, ecological consciousness, and animal welfare.

Huiya Zhang is an independent fashion designer based in China, and the founder and planner of the fashion creative platform H.Y FASHION STUDIO. Her clothing design language integrates emotional narrative and material experimentation, dedicated to breaking the shackles of perfectionism and constructing a genuine and powerful visual expression between softness and imbalance.

Can Cui, originally from Beijing and currently based in New York, is known for her sculptural silhouettes and thoughtful explorations of material. Her work combines technical precision with conceptual depth, often engaging with themes of identity, transformation, and emotional texture. Can continues to challenge conventional structures and explore the expressive possibilities of fashion.

Yezi Lou is a Chinese artist, who challenges classical oil painting through subtle shifts in palette and bold subject choices. Her practice revolves around objects as entry points into explorations of belonging, nostalgia, and alienation. Her paintings feature mundane objects stripped of original economic value, reflecting shifting identities and interactions beyond traditional social frameworks.

Tianjiao Wang works with film, photography, and installation. She was born in Beijing and is currently based in Chicago. She considers her films to be experimental documentaries. She anticipates that this medium can reveal subtle shifts and new perspectives in even the most ordinary things. She works both digitally and on celluloid. Her subjects and inspirations largely stem from her mother.

Hsin Hwang is a Taiwanese visual artist whose practice encompasses painting, drawing, printmaking, textiles, and installation art. Deeply influenced by fairy tales, mysticism, and Jungian psychology, her work draws from dream imagery, faith, and personal experiences to depict inner spiritual landscapes. Her work serves as a process of self-inquiry and as a healing force.

Yicong Li is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Beijing, China, currently based in Chicago. Li's artistic vision merges influences from her diverse cultural background. She pushes the boundaries of fashion through masquerades and sculptural forms that interact with the body. She collaborates with local artists and designers and showcases her work in numerous exhibitions globally.

Qianqian Jia is a Fashion designer based in London. For her, fashion is a way of expressing herself. For her, fashion is a way of expressing herself. Fashion doesn't just exist in the closet but in lifestyle and beliefs. Because of her experience in graphic design, her designs are always very linear and balanced. The clothes establish a sensory connection with the wearer through balance.

Pasquale Loiudice, Italian architect by training, approaches painting not as a traditional painter, but as an explorer of surfaces. For him, the painted surface is not an end in itself, but a site of inquiry, an open terrain where intention, chance, and error intersect.

Yiqi Zhao (Edie) is a visual artist and illustrator whose surrealist practice interrogates themes of identity, societal constraints, and resilience through a fusion of meticulous craftsmanship and symbolic storytelling. She continues to expand her practice, blending traditional techniques with digital innovation to amplify underrepresented narratives.

Mingxuan Zhang's artistic practice centres on the fluidity and de-symbolisation of the body, exploring the complex relationship between the body, space, and gaze through distortion and absence. She creatively incorporates ready-made fabrics from the real world into her paintings, capturing the transition between the “virtual” and the “real.” She currently lives between London and Hong Kong.