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.
Tabata Bandin is a multidisciplinary Mexican artist. Her work is based on the same discourse that she has approached and developed through different mediums such as drawing, video, photography, and objets d'art. Tabata has had academic and hands-on training in visual arts, philosophy, psychology, and sociology, disciplines that involve and give structure to my work.
Ruthorn Rujianurak is a self-taught painter from Thailand, whose works are collaged with a variety of surfaces, including cotton canvas, bristol paper, blotting paper, tissue paper, and wood panel. After living and working in New York City for two years. Ruthorn moved back to his hometown and currently based in Bangkok. His works have been featured in multiple shows in several counties such as Thailand, USA, China, and Korea.
Elinor' Shapiro, an American artist from Los Angeles who works on top of the large canvas and mixed media pieces. The figures in Elinor Shapiro's work are raw and disconnected. The combined mediums give her the ability to render them with detail and disintegrate them with a line. As a code, there are words and phrases layered into the paint.
Thomas C. Chung’s artistic practice is about seeing the world through a child's eyes, having dealt with their dreams and anxieties in previous years - food, toys, paintings, drawings, and art installations being the mediums that he has used. At its deepest level, he is researching the childlike psyche as a way of understanding the world as an empath.
Naomi Even-Aberle is a multi-disciplinary artist living in South Dakota (USA) who uses performance art, digital technology, and martial arts practices to explore female roles in contemporary society. Her art practice involve performative elements, interdisciplinary media processes embedded within her martial arts philosophy of understanding and establishing learning strategies for the body, mind, and spirit.
Rita Hisar Canadian abstract painter based in Toronto Canada. Rita Hisar is also inspired by the bold colors of the Caribbean, the raw honesty of graffiti art, and the passion of Pop Culture Icons in music, film, fashion, and sports. Inspired by Henri Matisse, Picasso, Andy Warhol, and Georgia O'Keeffe.
Vassilis Vassiliades (Nicosia, Cyprus, 1972). He believes that the linear channel in which it moves, traps our perception and aesthetics in the narrow cell of logic, the eternal enemy of creation. In the age of the moving image, Vassilis does not hesitate to state that he remains committed to statics, probably because it is the only hope to create small cracks into the iron curtain of time.
Anne Wölk, German artist currently lives and works in Berlin. She is a figurative painter whose artistic work stands in the tradition of realistic contemporary artists Vija Celmins and Russel Crotty. Committed to an attitude of reskilling, Wölk uses traditional methods and materials. Her paintings predominantly show us night sky scenes with deep and open galaxies. By quoting Spacetelescope images and digital photography resources, Anne Wölk tests the margins between art and reality.
Jiannan Wu, (1990 Dalian, China), is a young artist specializing in figurative sculpture. His art prominently features the theme of people's daily life narratively. Selfie Series is about the selfie phenomenon among the young generation, Subway Series presents different subway scenes in the New York metropolitan area, and the current ongoing Country Love series restores the country life in Northeast of China.
A burst of emotion forces the artist to turn inside out his soul and leave it on the canvas – that's how the Ukrainian artist Sergey Piskunov (1989, Ukraine) sees the work of his life. Hyper-realistic paintings possess their charm and character, children of unique inspiration – they like no other reflect the inner state of their creator, the depth of his personality, exposing him to the outside world.
MÀRK LAKOS (1993) is a Hungarian artist inspired by his surroundings and circumstances. His paintings capture scenes from his travels across the globe, incorporating the emotions related to these journeys. He often walks hours to explore the cities and enthralling find sites to paint them using unique compositions and perspectives to express his feelings and mood.
Nick Ervinck remains fascinated by the "negative space" as he discovered it with classical sculptors such as Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth. he explores in his own unique way classical themes such as man, plants especially their genetic manipulation, masks and animals, always starting from an (art) historical background that he cuts with contemporary pop and sci-fi culture.
Born in New York City, Alec Von Bargen is a multidisciplinary artist, a social anthropologist of sorts. He captures aesthetic instances resonating true with their historical, political, and social contexts. Although his research is meticulous, he does not prep, pre-produce, light, or arrange for the photographic shoots leading to the creation of his murals, installations, and video pieces.
Jean-Philippe Côté alias Djipco is an artist based in Montréal (Québec, Canada). Algorithms always drive his visual and interactive work. Using open-source software and pieces of “obsolete” hardware, he puts together interactive installations that bring back a sense of tangibility to this otherwise artificial, virtual, and augmented world of ours.
Pavel Korbička works with space, light, and color, employing various combinations of new and classical technologies. He manages to conjure up a state of suspense between objects and installations. While his sculptures may superficially appear static, they attest to a great deal of importance assigned by the artist to the element of motion.
Aïda Schweitzer is a Franco-Egyptian performance artist. She lives and works between Luxembourg and Brussels. Without learning in art school, her confusing work is based on "a no" partitioning, a distance from a formatted model, and challenges the established codes. Committed and feminist, her work plunges us into a poetic interiority of pure lines, a legacy of her travels in Asia.
Mattia Peressini works and studies in Lignano Sabbiadoro and Mestre in Italy. His research focuses on providing visual interpretations of sensations, thoughts, and emotions, and on different topics. The mystical and the inner self, as well as today and tomorrow worlds which intertwine, often by crushing or just touching us.
