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.
Song Rao is a Chinese visual artist living in Brooklyn, New York. He works in different art forms, including photography, installations, illustrations, and short videos. He uses composition and graphics to clone multiple selves, captured humorous scenes that also express profound meaning, social injustice, racism, queerness, and more from his life in NYC. His photos each show a different pose and meticulous expression.
Galla is the artistic pseudonym of Alessandro Marcus Ferreira, a crypto artist, enthusiast of the decentralized world, and the "head" behind CryptoArtCulture. Galla's creative process is triggered by the availability and alignment of a human, a computer, the internet, blockchain, and electricity. The result is a digital art that finds the decentralized platforms the perfect setting for its diffusion and a disruptive business angle in NFTs.
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.
Shurooq Amin is a mixed-media interdisciplinary Kuwait artist and an Anglophone poet who aims to instigate positive change in society. As an artist, her work reflects the socio-political dichotomy of the region she lives in, albeit sarcastically, by holding up a mirror to society, loud and unequivocally clear, drawing people in and allowing them to open a dialogue.
Daria Lou Nakov is a French visual artist. Her work is at the crossroads between installation, photography, and video. She sees photography as a way to create images and not simply capture the world around her. In a society so fueled with images, she likes to create surrealistic images to question our relation to the hyperrealistic image-based world.
The artist behind XCPinata (Kevin Ferreira) is one of the first artists to combine art and blockchain, having worked on Bitcoin, NFTs, and blockchain (Crypto Art) projects since 2014. Through a history of trying to create "digital originals" and working with cutting-edge technology, the artist brings awareness to the perceived value in the cryptographic tokens in and of themselves.
Jannetje Jeanine Verloop makes kinetic sculptures and multimedia work in which she combines her love for craft with a fascination for technology. Her most recent work, Symbiote, is almost completely constructed out of Borosilicate glass. The work is a machine that seems to destroy itself. Verloop sees the work as a deconstructive performance, in which she herself has assumed the role of assistant.
Roel Funcken is a pioneering Dutch musician. He is undoubtedly among the world's greatest and most prolific artists. A contemporary abstract expressionist painter whose work is recognizable for his unique artwork style that is rich in textures, colors, and shapes. Based in The Netherlands, the artist has been making music under his own name for more than 30 years, and since the last years he started painting.
Serena Marija is a multidisciplinary artist and experimental filmmaker based in Buckinghamshire, England. Her surreal films and works of art draw purely from real-life experiences, her inner memory museum, imagination, and dreams. Apart from being immersed in a dreamy process of creation, Serena is in the final year of her MA Creative Business degree at the National Film & Television School.
A passionate thinker, notwithstanding being a grounded sculptor, Dr Gindi reflects a lot on the connection between philosophy and the arts. Apart from their stunning appeal, Dr Gindi’s sculptures ask the viewer to mirror the grammar of consciousness, investigate a core sense of sublimity outside of decay, and contemplate about infinite presence.
Hannah Meng is a New York-based graphic designer, art director, and illustrator with a passion for branding, exhibition design, website design, and motion graphics. Her projects often address complex social issues, amplifying activism on gender equity, climate change, racial justice, LGBT identity, and immigrant rights. She has collaborated with leading cultural institutions, universities, and tech companies.
Christine Comeau is a visual artist and cultural worker. Her practice is based on multidisciplinary installation, sculpture, and living poetry. Her research focuses on mobility, exile, constraint, and the physical and mental boundaries created by travel. Current tropes in her work are the tent, a portable shelter that accompanies us on our travels, and clothes. She lives and works in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Zhiling Chen is a New York-based lingerie designer. Born in Suzhou, China, she moved to the United States at the age of 15. She describes her work as a combination of sensuality and rationality by using lines, shapes, blocks of color, and just the right amount of embellishments. She believes that underwear is not just something "under the fashion", but it is an element that can make people feel conformable in their skin.
Yunqi Yang is a photographer, videographer, visual designer, and multidisciplinary artist. As an artist who cares about environmental issues, she wants to remind the viewer of the beauty of nature and to realize the unconscious and inseparable relationship between people, the natural environment, and technology.
Ester Crocetta is an Italian visual artist. Her latest project, CHICCHIRIA Poultry, is a summary of years of deep interior reflection. The concept of the CHICCHIRIA Poultry is the theme of “ANIMAL FOOD”. Our liberated, consumerist society is still struggling to evolve towards this new theme. History has caused us to reflect on the balance and harmony within nature, teaching new limits regarding the excessive consumption of meat.
The subject of Yannie Gu’s artworks concentrates on exploring women’s self-identities as well as human psychological activities while facing collective and personal traumas. Lying between realistic and representational artistic styles, Yannie’s paintings capture vibrant figures in a variety of actions that further reflect women’s deeper insecurities and uneasiness through a voyeuristic lens.
Brett Ashby's practise spans painting, sculpture, film, theatre, sound, and installation. The multi-disciplinary artist, known for adopting unorthodox methodologies of practice, has explored multimedia forms of art creation since starting his practise in 2006 in London. Ashby presents new work that pushes against the binary that trauma is equally from the land as in people.
Jiabao Sun is a visual artist and photographer originally from China, and currently based in the USA. Jiabao’s work continually explores the variability and ambiguity of emotions and personal feelings. Her artistic expression is not limited in form, using photography, alternative photographic processes, and poetry to visualize the thoughts and dialogues inside her. Her latest project is titled Noēsis.
Darya M. Fard is a multidisciplinary artist from Iran, currently based in the USA. She has a very strong interest in visual art, especially printmaking, drawing, and painting, intersecting with other mediums like photography, video, installation, sound, and dance. Her work examines universal connection through creating metaphorical and symbolic mythical creatures inspired by Persian poetry and mythology.
Man Zhu is a fine art photographer originally from China, and currently based in New York. Her latest series, UnFrame: Relationship, is a body of photo-based works through which she explores her subconscious behavior by showing her relationships with people around her. The creative process draws on the principles of semiotics, appropriating and retaining each subject’s past, and integrating them into self-portraiture.
