Painting

INTERVIEW | Mike Goldberg

INTERVIEW | Mike Goldberg

Mike Goldberg is a contemporary artist living in San Francisco, originally from NYC. He has long found inspiration and beauty in the nooks and crannies of ordinary life, painting the untold stories of people he's encountered throughout the years. Mike explores how memories universally define and shape the human experience through his interactive installation.

INTERVIEW | Tiba Mohsen Tighbakhsh

INTERVIEW | Tiba Mohsen Tighbakhsh

Tiba Mohsen Tighbakhsh is an Iranian artist currently based in Germany. In recent years Tiba has been working on a new idea. First, he worked hard on a rare world concept that he created himself—a combination of drawing, painting, and tattooing, all on rare and handwoven kilims. In his most recent works, Tiba combines spirals with lines. He developed a completely new art technique, the Spiralist.

INTERVIEW | A Young Lee

INTERVIEW | A Young Lee

A Young Lee is a visual artist based in Seoul, Korea. She is interested in language, communication, and emotions. Her works use a typography and new language she created. Through the concept of concealment, Lee opens a conversation and suggests that viewers discuss and think about her works in their own ways. She doesn't want her viewers to have certain answers for her works.

INTERVIEW | Jerry Helle

INTERVIEW | Jerry Helle

Jerry Helle is a 22-year old Cameroonian artist, currently based between Germany, Cameroon, the USA and Portugal. His work represents contrasting value systems, the dynamics of his family’s history, postcolonial theories. Working primarily with abstract painting as the deliberate reduction to the essential, Helle depicts an understanding of his physical, spiritual, and emotional reality.

INTERVIEW | Alan Lacke

INTERVIEW | Alan Lacke

Alan Lacke is a Cuban artist, currently based in Madrid, Spain. His art is based mainly on scientific information, mathematical laws, cosmic energies, and history. He uses the simplest elements to represent his ideas, and colors are essential to convey sensations to those contemplating the paintings.

INTERVIEW | Oleg Tsyba

INTERVIEW | Oleg Tsyba

Oleg Tsyba is a Russian artist and doctor. He started creating his artworks four years ago, and since then, painting has become his main passion. In his artworks, Oleg explores the form in its primary manifestation. Most often, the subject of his work is ancient mythology. These themes are always relevant to Humanity - they tell us about love, sex, passion, and death. And they inspire Oleg to create.

INTERVIEW | Oussama Garti

INTERVIEW | Oussama Garti

Oussama Garti is a Moroccan architectural designer and artist trained at the Architectural Association in London. Fascinated by the infinite amount of similarities between macro and micro elements around him, Garti explores the idea of perception and works with extensive research to produce his work. His environment and observations fuel his creative process.

INTERVIEW | Kristine Narvida

INTERVIEW | Kristine Narvida

Kristine Narvida is an academic visual artist from Latvia. It is important for her to know that this is real life and not a place for nostalgia. Through understanding of time, physical feelings, and the vis-à-vis of a living human model, a pause is created, and a place is created for the emergence of the present. Every line and brushstroke are precise, just like every meeting with this person, a dream, a thought.

INTERVIEW | Chao Wang

INTERVIEW | Chao Wang

Originally from Hangzhou, China, Chao Wang is an artist who now works from New York. Her works are characterized by the presence of both organic and artificial elements, in a fusion that explores the human relationship with technology. Chao Wang is interested in how human-being interact with an increasingly technological society, exploring this through intriguing motifs.

INTERVIEW | Jonathan Frübis

INTERVIEW | Jonathan Frübis

Jonathan Frübis, who goes under the name of SKETJET, is an illustrator and designer based in Mannheim/Germany. He creates interior art, murals and individual office design pieces for numerous corporate clients. Apart from that, he spends his remaining time painting classical contemporary art paintings, with motives that show private moments from his life and people that are close to him.

INTERVIEW | Datis Golmakani

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.

INTERVIEW | Linda Aquaro

INTERVIEW | Linda Aquaro

Linda Aquaro is an Italian architect and painter based in Rome. Her research is strongly focused on figurative art and portraiture. The artist is fascinated by the relationship between the volumes of the face and space and loves experimenting with different languages, from the most traditional ones (such as painting and engraving) to the most contemporary such as digital graphics, or the combination of multiple techniques.

INTERVIEW | Olivier Larivière

INTERVIEW | Olivier Larivière

Olivier Larivière believes art is not just embellishment or the representation of outward appearances but rather is an essential act that reveals the inward significance of things. He sees his work as a window to the life-giving mystery of who and why, and what we are. His work depicts the epiphanies and wanderings of fallen heroes, magnificent losers, ordinary misfits, pulling the narrative thread of incongruous or absurd situations until it breaks.

INTERVIEW | Nina Stopar

INTERVIEW | Nina Stopar

Nina Stopar is a Slovenian artist. As a teacher of 5Rhythms she believes that movement is the gateway to creativity, abstraction, and the artistic self. Nina explores abstraction as the dance of intuition of body in motion. A dancing body is the purest and strongest form of perception. It inhabits the truth that arises from in it. Therefore, art created through the embodied practice of movement, as 5Rhythms dance, is subversive.

INTERVIEW | Maja Malmcrona

INTERVIEW | Maja Malmcrona

Maja Malmcrona is a Swedish artist. Her work is highly visceral, characterised by an open-ended process of experimentation and mistake. The pieces are continuous works in progress consisting of multiple layers of various media that create a living, three-dimensional, and almost sculptural surface.

INTERVIEW | Shazia Ahmad

INTERVIEW | Shazia Ahmad

Shazia Ahmad’s practice and research interests are centered on the notions of home and belonging, tied to the broader theme of otherness due to her interfaith and mixed-race background. Her latest project, A Year, A Garden, A Feeling (COVID19 Diary), is a personal and semi-autobiographical series.

INTERVIEW | Yijun Ge

INTERVIEW | Yijun Ge

Yijun Ge is a Chinese artist based in San Francisco. Yin and Yang are the basis of her visual language, representing passion and calmness. The contrast creates balance and tension, often represented through warm and cool colors. The elements that show up in her dreams, such as spiders, sailboats, cats, and dragons, help create a painting's theme. They are a unique symbolic language representing larger concepts.

INTERVIEW | Dipo Doherty

INTERVIEW | Dipo Doherty

Dipo Doherty is a Nigerian artist based in Lagos. As an artist, engineer, and entrepreneur, he seeks to define a vocabulary in his work that unites his African heritage and scientific background. Doherty has interpreted the human anatomy in his own ideology, increasing its dimensionality in abstraction in his paintings, while expanding his visual language to other forms of media that reference socio-economic issues.

INTERVIEW | Xiao He

INTERVIEW | Xiao He

Xiao He is a multidisciplinary artist focusing on painting and visual communication design. In her works, Xiao records ordinary life moments such as soaking in the warm bathtub as well as random conversations that she had with a stranger in Mexico. Consciousness the magician would fabricate these fragments together, and she records them faithfully, in the form of paintings and artist's books.

INTERVIEW | Olga Shcheblykina

INTERVIEW | Olga Shcheblykina

Olga Shcheblykina (1986) is a visual artist currently based in Steyr (Austria). Her main media are painting, installation and photography. She is exploring themes of sensitivity, vulnerability, corporeality and feminism. Living the experience of isolation and changes in the world around me in 2020, she explored suppressed and hidden emotions and manifested sensitivity.