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.
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.
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.
Qinying Cai was born in China and specializes in emotionally evocative oil paintings. Her artistic journey, rooted in childhood as a refuge from dyslexia, has evolved into a captivating exploration of classical artistry. As a talented storyteller, Qinying Cai invites viewers to connect and feel the common threads of our shared human experience, as well as reminds us of the fleeting nature of emotions and life experiences.
Cheuk Yan Cherry Tung is a Hong Kong-born interdisciplinary artist currently based in Chicago. In her latest taxidermy painting series, Cherry endeavors to bridge Eastern and Western culture by blending the concept of European Vanitas paintings with Gongbi painting, a traditional ink painting skill that she learnt in Hong Kong. This body of work discusses the power dynamics between human beings and nature.
Iwo Zaniewski is a painter, photographer, and creative director. works with traditional oil painting, drawing upon the history of figurative art and portraying subjects from everyday contemporary life. While his artworks depict narrated scenes, they are predominantly focused on formal internal relations and striving for equilibrium. The visual dialogues between forms, light, and layers of colour ultimately highlight the mood rather than the action of portrayed events.
Zhyldyz Bekova is a Kyrgyz painter and digital illustrator. She creates works of art for exhibitions in watercolor, graphics, and mixed media. In her subjects, she uses themes from myths, customs, and traditions of Turkic ethnic peoples of Central Asia. She loves to convey Kyrgyz national motifs using her unique cultural heritage. She came to oil painting in 2020.
The objective of Yongqi Tang’s works is to reinterpret the categories into which we are born to rearticulate the discourse around them. Her studio practices involve a variety of materials such as oil, watercolor, acrylic, and charcoal. Using the dining experience as an entry point, Yongqi’s current works examine the ambivalence to be in the liminal state between the alienation from her country of origin and the displacement at the current settlement.
Kwong is a multi-disciplinary artist who focuses on oil painting and fiction writing. After learning the basics from art teachers, he developed his own artistic approach while serving in the journalistic field for 30 years. He usually starts with concepts in his painting process, and concepts are converted into symbols, which he uses to build up a connection between contemporary art and memories, history and his community.
Sophie Ruoyu Zhang is a Chinese artist, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Working as a "diffraction apparatus", her practice utilizes multiple natural materials (napa cabbage, wine, coffee, etc.). Her oil painting, printmaking, and performance respond to and reinterpret the natural objects that are in a limbo of recognition, permeating poetics on the threshold of the subjecthood, the recognizable and the representable.
Le Liu (b 1996) is a young Chinese emerging artist, currently working and living in Coatbridge, Scotland. His paintings are both figurative and abstract. His works are expressive with brush strokes and vivid in colour, in a constant flux between abstract and realistic modes. His works combine theory and practice through reading philosophies combined with his Eastern cultural heritage.
Ayuna guides the people into her works through personas. In addition, she expresses the nature that exists as it is, that natural process of winding and unwinding, and the weak and the strong in an effort to make a barrier against the violence she got through. Through such a process, she would save herself. She also wishes that somebody who views her works would be empowered to live in this violent world.
