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.
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.
Ulziitugs Enkhbold is a Mongolian artist currently based in Winnipeg, Canada. She works across multiple disciplines and her practice is primarily concentrated around identity and heritage. Her paintings are often completed in oil, while her sculptures are mainly ceramic. Her current body of work consists of oil paintings that analyzes the relationship between immigrants and their home countries.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Patrícia Magalhães is a multidisciplinary artist from Lisbon, Portugal. her work is mostly drawing. The contamination with painting, etching, sculpture, and photography in a diversity of mediums and scales that she applies in each work is perceptible. She is represented in some private collections such as Fundação Bienal de Cerveira and Universidade Lisboa, among others.
Fernando Velazquez is a Spanish painter leaving and working in Dorset, UK. Born in Seville, his work has developed throughout his career into a highly personal language concerned with the power of nature and the imagination, evident in his series Paintings of the Floating World, Through the Veil, Cave Paintings of our Time, and recently Animas and In the Beginning series presented in London.
Mary Badalian’s artistic practice is marked by interweaving: of thread, materials, but also driving forces of nostalgia and compulsion. Her process is persistent and repetitive and each piece shelters a story and intense emotions, abstracted and expressed through texture and colour. These works and their process are the artist’s self-expression and self-exploration.
My Linh Mac is a multi-media artist, her works portray beauty in humble places with her signature style of deep and vibrant accent colors. Her work mixes traditional media, mostly acrylic painting, with digital painting and design. While Mac’s paintings have varied genres, from conceptual, abstract, and figurative to contemporary, her digital and visual design works are commercial.
Anastasiya Malyghina is of the idea that art speaks for itself. Her art is a flow of unconsciousness which becomes a sign, forming a unique image system. She achieves that due to the intuitive, fast drawing technique that originates in Pablo Picasso's art. Since 2019 Anastasiya has been actively involved in exhibitions in Italy and London. Anastasiya's artworks are held in Russian and foreign private collections.
Federico Alcaro is an architect and artist. He approaches the graphic representation of dystopias with an architectural connotation to critically represent some phenomena of modern society. The images are always quite critical and provocative in the form of dystopias with an architectural connotation full of symbols and icons. Federico Alcaro’s biggest influences and inspirations refer to names from both architecture and art world.
