Ramón González Palazón is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, drawing, video creation, installation, and filmmaking. His practice seeks to transform real spaces, merging the human and the material, using interactive devices to generate new interpretations of physical environments. In his latest compositions, he reflects on the natural process of atmospheric elements.
Thomas C. Chung is a Chinese-Australian contemporary artist based in Helsinki & Sydney. His latest project, the exhibition The Sea That Stands Before Me…, contemplates the notion of one's devotion to living as a form of armament. Chung's conceptual practice continues its inquiries into psychology, folklore, mythology, and philosophy, binding them as a cohesive tale.
Jewan Goo is a research-based photographer who focuses on reexamining and reconstructing the fading history of Korea during the Japanese colonial period. His work is deeply connected to contemporary issues within institutional archives and history education, which are often biased and subject to political control or censorship by governmental or educational authorities.
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.
Every technical and philosophical facet of Lorette C. Luzajic’s art is committed to the application of mixed media, redefining the term to include concepts and ideas as well as tangible physical materials. This cross-genre pasticcio is born from and dependent on collage, which naturally experiments with subliminality, intercontextuality and the unexpected narratives that emerge from both playful and planned juxtapositions.
Sam Heydt is an American social practice and recycled media artist. Working across different media, Heydt presents an abstract proposition for a world on the periphery of history, one that not only appears haunted by the ghosts of the past but built on it. Her work has been shown in galleries, museums, art fairs, and film festivals worldwide.
Sudesh Prasad is an American artist. He began working as an artist in New York in 1986. His abstract works focus on the collaborative nature of the artist and the viewer. His Cool Empire II series is made of prints from European painting torn from books and overpainted, in an attempt to re-focus the notion of the viewer and their place in the nature of images, painting, and looking at art.
Bob Landström is an American artist who primarily works with crushed, pigmented volcanic rock. His abstract paintings, with their highly granulated texture and color combinations, only achieved through such a medium, reconsider our relationship with “primitive” art by elevating the iconography of ancient languages, science, religions, and mysticism.
Nogueira de Barros is an award-winning artist, born in 1964 in Almada, Portugal. He regularly exhibits, having participated in prestigious collective exhibitions and several individual exhibitions. In 2001, he began exhibiting outside the country, highlighting the city of New York and London. In 2021 he was invited to be part of the international jury at the Torso International Art competition, India.
Josefina De León’s technique is based on acrylic. She explores a different world, full of textures, colors, and sensations with her paintings. Through each work, she seeks to transmit the peace and joy that she feels when creating, making every piece so unique that they can fill any space with light and energy. She considers art as a doorway to freedom and her own female empowerment.
Ekaterina Zhingel is inspired by articles on scientific hypotheses and discoveries in physics and neurobiology. Her latest series is devoted to the nonlinearity of time. In the series, Ekaterina was photographed against the background of the street and kept this moment for herself. She left no more trace. This photo is the only proof of her short presence at this place.
Giuseppe Francavilla tries to make the documentary discourse something universal starting from the particular. He dedicates himself mainly to street and documentary photography, working and exhibiting internationally. For Francavilla, photography must not only archive visions of the present but also be the object of evaluation and criticism of the territory for the future.
American visual artist Izosceles produces vibrant, fun pop-ish visual compositions that are irresistible and attention-grabbing. Heavily influenced by pop cartoons, the artist hopes to make them a serious contender in the art world that are just as worthy of admiration and attention as fine art paintings.
Peter Backhaus is an award-winning artist based in Sweden whose paintings have been exhibited nationally, as well as in Luxembourg, Germany, Denmark, and China. He describes his works as being created in a space that lies between "intellectual thinking and uncontrolled instinct". Backhaus refers to his compositions as inner pictures with no purpose, where "total silence and total chaos co-exist”.
Olga Nikitina “When I am underwater, I feel the ocean energy and unity with nature, the silence around. Only I can hear my breathing and sometimes fish rambling. It is easy to enter a trance state when painting underwater. Rays from the sun penetrating through the water are magical - you can see and feel that this is the point where two different worlds intersect and mix – and this is a favorite subject to reflect in my paintings.”
Marit Otto is a multi-disciplinary artist. Her artworks have a strong sense of aesthetics and a firm arrangement of color and composition. Otto’s art is often a personal reflection of social issues and current affairs. To the artist, innovation is not a purpose in itself but the result of progressive insight and the need to stretch and push her own boundaries.
Salvatore Mauro is an award-winning Italian artist. His art opens in two directions, the first is a more performative expression, where the central element is the interaction with the viewer of which he becomes the protagonist. The other concerns sculptural elements, which he calls "lightboxes and constellations", which are created to last over time.
Cherrie Yu is born in Xi'an, China. She currently lives and works from Chicago. Yu is the author of the Narrative Series is a series of videos in which classical narratives and characters were reenacted with thrift objects or foods. The narrative is chosen often signals a significant change to the characters selected, such as their marriage, death, exile, or injury.
Salomé Tamayo’s characters humorously celebrate the inconsistencies and peculiarities of social cannons. She plays with abstract and existential concepts to give concrete depictions of people being and living in their own way. By observing people, she looks for characters and stories entwined in everyday life. The collection is meant to bring people together through the real and the raw.
The works by David Dejous reveal the paradoxes within images, considering their equivocal nature and their ambiguities. He draws upon the confusion between the various codes of representation associated with painting, photography, and drawing, to create images that raise issues of authenticity, realism and illusion.
Nicola Barth is dealing with permanent metamorphic processes in non-obvious areas. Her work can be understood as an insight into a temporally and spatially limited development process section. Sculptures and manipulated photos complement painting and drawing mainly in oil. The content follows the same principle and is as abstract and surreal as her paintings. There is indeed a world behind this world. And it's constantly moving.
Hermano Noronha is more interested in the symptom than in the evidence, in reaching what is under the obvious. He is interested in the vortex of time and how the plurality of individual memories is combined in the building of collective memory. Through the identification and photographic registration of symbolic markers, he seeks to build archives against oblivion.
Leandro de Sousa Marcos began his artistic career in 2012. The artist's initial choice was for the pure forms, where the painting is the only surface painted, and the lines and colors suffice for what they are, forms, not what they can mean. After engaging in various projects, his work moved in a more personal and intimate direction, using the screen as a diary in which he could express feelings and clarify issues that art has put to him along his journey.
