Maja Malmcrona is a visual artist born in 1993 in Gothenburg, Sweden, and currently based in Zurich, Switzerland. Her work relates primarily to an examination of space and our experience of it, placing particular emphasis on the mediation between our natural and built environment. Her work takes the form of abstract landscapes, conceptual cartography, and imaginary structures.
INTERVIEW | Ke Ren
Ke Ren is an illustrator and animation artist currently based in London. Her artistic practice spans various mediums, including 2D digital, traditional frame-by-frame hand-drawing, and augmented reality. Ke's artistic practice focuses on the intersection of 2D digital and traditional hand-drawn techniques, drawing inspiration from different cultural environments and identities and weaving together those indescribable moments of memory and visuals.
INTERVIEW | Jasmine Zhu
Jasmine Zhu is a Chinese artist currently based in the US. Her works range from sketches and drawings to large-scale ink paintings, as well as architectural drawings. Her series Multi-Lanscapes takes inspiration from the mandatory mathematics course multivariable calculus and is comprised of ink drawings on rice paper, with blueprint free hand lines as the background, as well as digital and spatial reimaginations.
INTERVIEW | Jingsi Chen
Jingsi Chen (shertato) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer born in Beijing, China in 1997. She delves into how narratives may have multiple readings and perspectives. She develops work employing metaphor to address current societal issues through research informed by mythological narrative texts that can be re-interpret and applied to new meanings.
INTERVIEW | Arman Khorramak
Arman Khorramak, a prominent artist born in 1986 in Tehran, Iran. Ever since he was a child, he had a vivid imagination that allowed him to see things in a unique way. He would create stories in his mind and draw them out instead of talking about them. His process is fueled by his passion for music and his love for literature and cinema, which he blends into his artwork.
INTERVIEW | Boyuan Wang
Wang Boyuan is an artist based in London and China who explores absurdity and fantasy through printmaking, moving images, drawing, etc. Wang Boyuan’s works employ imagination and humor to reflect and rethink identity, sexuality, social constraints, and underlying ideologies. His current work is a series of drawings that serve as self-portraits exploring my possibilities, desires, and emotions.
INTERVIEW | Jiayin Song
Jiayin Song is a background and visual development artist from China, currently based in SoCal. Her inspiration comes from a variety of animated shows and movies that capture a sense of nostalgia, magic, and sentimentality through the visuals. Her work focuses on storytelling, creating magical but believable illustrations that capture similar emotions.
INTERVIEW | Joanna Hoge
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.
INTERVIEW | Marilina Marchica
Marilina Marchica is an Italian artist, based in Agrigento. Her pictorial investigation goes to the limit of abstraction thanks to a reflection on architecture and, in particular, on the wall as an internal/external diaphragm and a metaphor for the relationships between man, nature, and time. The architectures take on a symbolic value in relation to collapses and demolitions and imposes themselves as a metaphor for a universal and existential dimension.
INTERVIEW | Morain An
Morain An is an illustrator who tries to communicate with the world through visual language. She lives and works in New York City. Her creative process is a journey of exploration and introspection. She delves deep into the subject matter, whether it's a social issue or an editorial topic, to fully understand its meanings and implications, developing a profound connection with the subject, which is reflected in her art.
INTERVIEW | Natalia Ludmila
Natalia Ludmila was born in Mexico City and grew up in Toronto, Canada. She is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice shifts between painting, drawing, video, and sound. It can be defined as studio-based research that points to the political—questioning forms of representation and the construction of false or biased narratives in the context of conflict.
INTERVIEW | Adrianna Wasinska-Fabian
Adrianna Wasinska-Fabian is an Australia-based artist, a horse-riding instructor, and a passionate naturalist and traveler. Adrianna's work evokes nature. It is her biggest and finest inspiration. Nature enables her to be a part of something bigger; it expands her perspective and liberates her from the outside world. The strong connection she has with it gives her freedom and power during the process of creating.
INTERVIEW | Zijun Zhao (Mosa)
Zijun Zhao (Mosa) graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her work is based on the recognition and pride of her Asian identity and also the conflict between real life and the illusional world. Every drawing is a process of quarreling with herself that she is creating a world without logic but with order, where she has an opportunity to feel safe.
INTERVIEW | Kelly Zhong
Kelly Zhong was born in Vancouver, BC, and currently works in New York, NY. She views her artwork as informal self-portraits – drawings that reflect parts of herself without ever showing actual facial features. Instead, body language is used to convey mental states and actions. From this ambiguity, she invites viewers to reflect on similar experiences and cast their own perspectives on situations.
INTERVIEW | Liza Odinokikh
Liza Odinokikh is a Russian artist, currently living and working in Saint Petersburg. She works in various media, including painting, graphics, and objects. Liza addresses the themes of personal identity and introspection. Through the practice of emotionally figurative therapy, dreams, automatic writing, and other techniques of working with the unconscious, the artist finds evidence of the possibility of influencing and controlling her consciousness.
INTERVIEW | Allegra Bick-Maurischat
Allegra Bick-Maurischat is an American artist, currently based in Los Angeles, CA. Allegra is fascinated by America’s historical amnesia, its role in shaping Western ideologies, and its influence on cultural memory and the concept of “nationhood.” Her interdisciplinary practice is grounded in historical research and explores many forms of making, including oil painting, silverpoint drawing, cyanotype and more.
INTERVIEW | Alina Holovatiuk
Alina Holovatiuk is an up-and-coming Ukrainian architect, designer, and CGI/2D artist. She is a founder of the "InTempo" app & case startup against panic attacks and the international social experiment "Architecture & Happiness" engaging 5000 people around the globe, aiming to find out the correlation between architecture and well-being.
INTERVIEW | Diana Suárez
Diana Suárez is a Mexican artist, based in Mexico City. She is a perceptive and restless artist. Interested in the world of graphics, she brings into play the act of representation using the language of drawing and the process of engraving to reflect on the psychogeographic, turning each work into a communicative device to establish collective dialogues.
INTERVIEW | Chelsea Malia Brown
Chelsea Brown is an artist and poet based in the U.S. She creates work inspired by her chronic illness and the feeling of losing autonomy and being out of control of her body, mind, and connection to others. Most of her artwork features the female form, paired with symbols that narrate power and vulnerability, but ultimately empowerment.
INTERVIEW | Datis Golmakani
Datis Golmakani is an Iranian painter and cartoonist, born in Mashhad, Iran, in 1985, and currently based in Wiesbaden, Germany. As an artist, time and place have never affected him, and what's considered important is the commitment to create form and uncertainty in principles. He's looking for moderation and jumping from romanticism to better understand the depth of content.