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.
Yien Xu is a Chinese photographer currently based in Los Angeles, California. Art is a tool for the artist to explore the world. It allows him to understand how the world runs, form the whole structure of the world in his mind, and then express his perception of the world via art. Inspired by this, his latest works shifted to a surrealist style based on reality yet differed from it, conveying a false sense of truth.
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.
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.
Michael Filimowicz is a Digital Artist based in St. Louis, USA. He has a background in computer mediated communications, audiovisual production, new media art and creative writing. His research develops new multimodal display technologies and forms, exploring novel form factors across different application contexts including gaming, immersive exhibitions, and simulations.
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.
Andreea is an award-winning architectural & landscape architectural designer and researcher. "After Plastics: The Gardens of the Glacial Foreland" is a transitional landscape – from glacial to post-glacial. The project questions the potential emergence of microplastic particles in the most pristine places on Earth over the next two centuries and the imminent implications on landscape systems and their formation.
Chenglin Xue’s work uses Arduino, processing, Maxmsp, and other interactive software in synergy with photography, video, printmaking, and other media. His work explores the nature of video and objective reality, focusing on the relationship between people and nature, attempting to harness interactive media to explore an invisible reality.
Alejandro Áboli is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer and The RedLine is his debut as an artist. Combining reality with fiction, Áboli reduces images to their simplest forms to capture the delicate relationship between real and imaginary worlds. The Redline photos catch the viewer’s eye using a contemporary theme and creating a comfortable ambiguity between reality and fantasy and spiced with a touch of humor.
Nadra Jacob is a visual artist from Santiago de Chile. Her artistic work is based on the representation, through painting, of a series of environments, landscapes, and elements located both in the internal and external imaginary. From the above, a synergy between both worlds is developed that allows her to create images that move between the figurative and the abstraction through the use of a wide color range.
Veronika Spleiss is a German painter, originally from Tallinn, Estonia. She has been working with fine visual arts for more than fifteen years. Her paintings are in obvious chaos, but they have an inherent order and harmony that only emerges on further contemplative viewing. In the end, the work becomes a panorama of a city, a combination of houses, people, stairs with their own order: an order of perspectives.
Patrícia Pinheiro de Sousa is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She works with multiple mediums and disciplines, such as video, text-based works, performance, sound, and self-published books. She is interested in fragmented landscapes and how incomplete narratives affect collective memory, while her latest projects reflect an interest in future landscapes.
A native of Saguenay in Canada, Sue Vo-Ho stands out as a photographer through her approach to memory and evanescence. The melancholy of open spaces inspires her work. Sue Vo-Ho finds her inspiration in the emptiness of nature or cities. Her preferred themes revolve around the desert, buildings, the ocean, urban landscapes and city walls and are tinged with a hint of melancholy.
Anastasia Golovneva is a Russian painter, currently based in Moscow. Anastasia lived for many years with Khanty indigenous northern people side by side. Her work deals with the Ugric world. Harmonious, but so fragile, it was destroyed in just a couple of decades because of oil production. Anastasia believes that it is necessary to know and understand the consequences of oil production and depicts it in her art.
Carla Piacenza’s work addresses issues that are related to nature and human behavior. Thus, she reflects on gender, identity, migrations, and the environment and climate changes. Taking resources from science and psychology, and transforming them into visual poetics, the works are presented as hypothetical and experiential ideas seeking to decode a personal argument.
