Interviews Platform, Mixed Media
Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art
INTERVIEW | Junshu Gu

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.

INTERVIEW | Junshu Gu
Interviews Platform, Performance
Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art
INTERVIEW | Hanna Tzong-Han Wu

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.

INTERVIEW | Hanna Tzong-Han Wu
Interviews Platform, Fashion, ISSUE16
Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art
INTERVIEW | Zihao Zhou

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.

INTERVIEW | Zihao Zhou
Interviews Platform, Fashion, ISSUE16
Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art
INTERVIEW | Tong Tong

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.

INTERVIEW | Tong Tong
Interviews Platform, Installation
Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art
INTERVIEW | Qibai Ting

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.

INTERVIEW | Qibai Ting

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INTERVIEW | Cate Wind

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INTERVIEW | Cate Wind

Cate Wind creates sculptures and installations that reveal correlations between modern knowledge and ancient systems of belief. She assembles refined materials such as metal, glass, or resin with discarded found objects including gearwheels, vintage herbariums, or religious textiles. Fascinated by the interaction of materials with different feels and auras, her sculptures can be described as experiments that try to investigate the internal energies of various matters and how they affect each other.

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INTERVIEW | Sungwan Huang

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INTERVIEW | Sungwan Huang

Sungwan Huang (1995) is a Taiwanese artist currently living in Czech Republic. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from Taipei National University of the Arts. Huang's work focuses on the invisible flow between people and the world, from poetic visual language and objects. Guiding the audience to walk in space and let the image and object inspire each other.

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INTERVIEW | Marina Gasparini

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INTERVIEW | Marina Gasparini

Marina Gasparini was born in Gabicce Mare. She lives and works in Bologna, Italy. After graduation from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna, she started her artistic activity in Bologna in the '80s. Her practice focuses on living places and is mostly based on drawing, embroynding, and installations. Since 2001, the employment of textiles has been constant in her works.

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INTERVIEW | Lab212 Collective

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INTERVIEW | Lab212 Collective

Lab212 is an interdisciplinary art collective, founded in 2008 in Paris by friends who all graduated in Media & Interaction Design at Les Gobelins Paris. Using new media, the collective creates installations that explore Lab212 Collective’s perceptions of space and sound provoke a loss of bearings and offer a sensitive interpretation of impalpable phenomena by giving them materiality as through light and sound beams in space Passifolia, 2020.

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INTERVIEW | Roberto Cuellar

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INTERVIEW | Roberto Cuellar

Roberto Cuellar fuses elements of design and pop culture with a sculptural and scenographic approach to create free-standing sculptures, installations, and reliefs. Cuellar has been collaborating with various international artists and leading skate brands. His works associated with skateparks and store windows of famous luxury brands have been settings to diverse music and skateboarding videos while remaining visible in the public space.

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INTERVIEW | Thomas C. Chung

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INTERVIEW | Thomas C. Chung

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.

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INTERVIEW | Djipco

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INTERVIEW | Djipco

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.

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INTERVIEW | Pavel Korbička

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INTERVIEW | Pavel Korbička

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.

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REPRESENTED ARTIST | Pavel Korbička “Horizons of Light" are a cycle of light glass neon lines based on the optics of human eyesight. Each line consists of two basic complementary colors: green - red; orange - blue; purple - yellow. The hu
REPRESENTED ARTIST | Pavel Korbička “Horizons of Light" are a cycle of light glass neon lines based on the optics of human eyesight. Each line consists of two basic complementary colors: green - red; orange - blue; purple - yellow. The hu
Neo Primitive Life - Aquatic 1, 2020 by the Japanese photographer Eriko Kaniwa. C-print on Crystal Archive on aluminium dibond Edition of 5. A single phylogenetic tree maps the evolutionary relationships among all life on Earth. While the origin of
REPRESENTED ARTIST | Pavel Korbička - Light artist Pavel Korbička exploits each creative impulse down to the minutest detail and is able to bring his message across with the use of the most economical devices, his idiom conveying an experience of gr
Neo Primitive Life - Aquatic 1, 2020 by the Japanese photographer Eriko Kaniwa. C-print on Crystal Archive on aluminium dibond Edition of 5. A single phylogenetic tree maps the evolutionary relationships among all life on Earth. While the origin of
Pavel Korbička, Dance Calligraphy No.E2 00:02:52 min, 2010/2017 Installation, white neon glass tubes, video documents. 209 x 133 x 139 cm, dance: Petra Hauerová Pavel Korbička exploits each creative impulse down to the minutest detail and is