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.
Leon Phillips is a contemporary painter currently based in Vancouver, Canada. He employs the materiality of color to evoke a visceral response in viewers, infusing color with structural significance rather than mere decoration. Phillips’ gestural work explores perception and embodiment through the materiality of color, aiming to immerse viewers in a corporeal experience.
Karolina Zgłobicka, a Polish artist based in Valencia, Spain, explores themes of relocation, memory, and the everyday objects that anchor us to our personal histories. Karolina Zgłobicka's art reflects on the intricate relationship between cherished objects and the memories they evoke, prompting the viewer to reconsider their connection with the material world and the passage of time.
Shouhui Lu is a Chinese self-taught artist. He believes that the best teacher is nature. He has been committed to the exploration and innovation of paper painting language, creating works with a contemporary spirit on traditional rice paper. He tries to express the problems that tiny individuals are experiencing and encountering in the current society through his works.
Theo Lopez draws inspiration from movements like Musicalism, Russian Constructivism, and the Blaue Reiter, cultivating a poetic relationship with material, line, and color. His creative process harmonizes reflection and spontaneity, awakening hidden melodies within his work. He employs full-body gestures to infuse energy into his non-figurative art, echoing the dynamism of historical avant-gardes.
Michel Bragança is a Portuguese painter and artist with a degree in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto. In their artistic practice, there is a need to define who they are as they exist, which has been a constant research theme and a reason for their ontological questioning and introspective process, which in turn are connected to their artistic practice.
Tanapol Suriyachottakul is a Thai artist born in 2001 in Bangkok. He approaches his art with a methodical, almost analytical mindset, likening his process to solving equations. Central to his work is the concept of Nihilism, which he portrays through calculated compositions and symbolic objects like mannequins and metallic forms. His paintings construct a world of distorted realities.
Yuliia Chaika was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and as an artist, she fully found herself and her style in Spain. In most of her works, the main theme is devoted to women. Through the female image, she expresses her emotions and concerns, offering a personal lens through which she views the world. She draws inspiration from the folk art of Ukraine.
Emi Avora is a Greek-born, UK-trained, and Singapore-based artist. She subject matter from her everyday life in Asia as well as her Greek ancestry with a focus on a combination of interior spaces, still life, and landscape. Often, her paintings present encounters or ‘conversations’ between seemingly disparate objects or symbols.
Patrick Walsh is an American artist. He lives in Portland, Maine, and works out of his studio in the old textile mill in Biddeford, Maine. His paintings seek to explore the subtle yet profound differences within natural environments, reflecting how these variations mirror the individuality of human beings. The work aims to challenge viewers to appreciate the nuances of the natural world.
Claudia Newman is a self-taught artist and illustrator from Germany. Her artwork serves as a reflection of her personal growth, encapsulating her profound thoughts and emotions. Her pieces are captivating, evocative, and filled with deep meaning. The beauty emanating from her artworks pays a unique homage to the complexities of human experiences and the diverse forms present in our universe.
Cesar Mammadov, born in 1988 in Baku, Azerbaijan, is a notable young artist. He captures ordinary moments from his travels and home country, influenced by his father's legacy and Azerbaijani culture. His bold brushstrokes and saturated colors convey optimism and celebrate diversity and harmony. His work offers unique perspectives, slightly flattening aerial views for a contemporary twist.
Donna Gough’s multidisciplinary art practice links elements from drawing, painting, sculpture, and light-based media, investigating ideas around our very existence and our ‘place in space,’ while exploring existential concepts of geometry as a universal language and Gestalt theories of our relationship with nature and the cosmos. She has exhibited in the United States, Germany, and Australia.
Nataliya Lemesheva is a Russian artist, currently living in Barcelona. Her artistic practice revolves around the concept of non-duality — the understanding that all phenomena are ultimately interconnected and indivisible. In her works, she strives to show the blurring of boundaries between opposites, such as light and dark, internal and external, familiar and foreign, abstraction and realism.
Born in the Netherlands and based in Portugal, Gís Marí paints large-scale, abstract, expressionistic oil paintings. Gís Marí believes in old-world values. He works on a painting for many months and up to years. After constant conversation with the painting, he only puts his signature under his best work and destroys the rest.
Todd Williamson is a Los Angeles-based contemporary artist. His art is like a deep dive into a world of subtle abstractions, where every piece has a kind of ethereal calm and a determined presence. He brings his pieces to life through a process-oriented technique of layering, sanding, grinding, and detailed brushwork—each step pulling out an inner connection into his world.
Xinyu Wo is a Chinese visual artist now living in New York. Her art aims to explore the connection between human nature and social reality, triggering viewers to reflect on their inner worlds through visual presentation. By dramatizing images to increase tension and using surrealist techniques to arrange elements, she aims to attract viewers to explore the meanings behind her works.
Born into a family of master ceramicists, Oliviero Leonardi (1921 - 2019) was an Italian painter and sculptor based in Rome and Paris. He was largely recognized in the 1970/80s as one of the leader in painting with experimental materials on steel plates. His artistic research focused, among others, on the subject of cosmogony. He was partially influenced by futurism, surrealism, cubism and art informel.
Jérémy Bergeaud, lives and works in Bordeaux, France. As a professional architect, he primarily defines himself as an experimenter. His work exists at the intersection of techniques and materials, exploring the uniqueness and evolution of materials. This research journey often leads him to explore simple techniques that, over time, transform into autonomous works.
Beverley Jane Stewart is a visual artist currently based in the UK. As a visual writer, she looks in intricate detail at how Jewish heritage operates in contemporary multicultural society fusing facts with emotions. She tells stories from past to present, displaying history in its various periods. Her work is now fast gaining international standing, with exhibitions in the United Kingdom, Israel, and Italy.
