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.
Tong Tong is a cutting-edge fashion designer and creative based in New York City. Tong's designs draw inspiration from a rich tapestry of influences, including personal memories, a profound passion for fashion history, and an adventurous exploration of materials. His collection Home Alone draws inspiration from a cherished childhood memory, the clandestine explorations into his parents' wardrobe.
Qibai Ting is an artist currently based in Beijing and London. Her practice mainly focuses on narrative objects and sculptural installations. Qibai is interested in stargazing activities, and she considers her works as “constellations”. Living very close to forests and mountains, she identifies with the philosophy of nature and practices within landscape.
Stella Guan is a queer, non-binary 20-year-old from Brooklyn, New York. Currently, Stella is majoring in Fine Arts and minoring in Creative Writing at the American University of Paris. Additionally, they are pursuing a career as a tattoo artist. By translating deeply rooted, emotionally scarring experiences and memories into their paintings, Stella challenges themselves and their viewers to delve into the most horrifying, bitter, and hurt parts of themselves.
Rui Aleixo was born, lives, and works in Lisbon. He develops his artistic work as a freelancer since 2008, and he has exhibited both collective and individual projects. He works with diversified techniques, materials, and media, materialized in works of painting, drawing, engraving, installation, and sculpture, as well as performance or action. He is represented in private collections and a public collection at Fundação Portuguesa de Telecomunicações.
Aleks Rosenberg is a multi-disciplinary artist and filmmaker who resides in the United States. The central themes found in his works relate to the 'outsider looking into the darkness of the human vortex' countered by the optimism of 'no matter what, the sun will always rise tomorrow'. For Rosenberg, there has always been the tension between light and darkness, and as such, his compositions seek to find a balance between the two extremes.
Alexandra Holownia is a performance and interdisciplinary conceptual artist who made actions in public space, costumes, sculptures, drawings, video, text, lectures. Alexandra Holownia's works touch on taboo topics related to gender. She demonstrates against exclusion, discrimination based on age, sexism, and patriarchal structures in women and men's private and public relations. Calls for socio-political tolerance, acceptance of human rights, and freedom of sexual self-determination.
Vian Borchert is an expressionist artist. V. Borchert considers all her artwork to be visual poems. For the artist nature is very essential and plays an important role in her life. Thus, V. Borchert is a nature lover - mother nature is her sanctuary and her ultimate solace. Borchert is an avid nature observer. Through contemplating upon nature, the artist reaches her inner peace and attains moments of zen.
Ryoji Morimoto is a mixed-media artist who was born in Kochi, a rural area of Japan. His simple upbringing infused his childhood with the legacy and lifestyle of coexistence with nature. His works are based on the relationship between something disappearing, changing, and arising with the flow of time and the human being. He often gets inspiration from simple daily life elements, such as the natural world, and visualize the relationship between their background and human beings.
Sungwan Huang (1995) is a Taiwanese artist currently living in Czech Republic. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from Taipei National University of the Arts. Huang's work focuses on the invisible flow between people and the world, from poetic visual language and objects. Guiding the audience to walk in space and let the image and object inspire each other.
Marina Gasparini was born in Gabicce Mare. She lives and works in Bologna, Italy. After graduation from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna, she started her artistic activity in Bologna in the '80s. Her practice focuses on living places and is mostly based on drawing, embroynding, and installations. Since 2001, the employment of textiles has been constant in her works.
Leah Oates has a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and a M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a Fulbright Fellow for graduate study at Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. Thus, the world appears to be a complicated tissue of events in which connections of different kinds of alternate, overlap, or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole. All phenomena are processes, connections, all is in flux, and at moments this flux is visible.
Boekhoudt is an exclusive self-taught fine art painter with more than twenty years of experience. His original modern expressionist artwork is indeed one of a kind since Boekhoudt does not create nor authorize any reproductions of his artwork. He has an exceptionally loyal clientele since they can privately own original museum quality artwork that will never be displayed on a commercial level.
Bo Cosfranz was born in Yugoslavia in 1987. She moved to London in 1993. Her focus is on painting, with style developed through a background in textile, printmaking, and sculpture. Learning these techniques has shaped the way that she sees, as they require the artist to think about areas of color and a reduced palette. Bo treats paintings in the same way, with discrete areas of color and hard-edged shapes.
Doug Winter is a fine art and editorial photographer focusing on social awareness working in both abstract and representational photography. He is best known for his large-scale abstract photographic images on dye-infused aluminum panels. "I'm a curious perfectionist," he has said. "The work is inspired by light and reflective colors in nature.
Sanja Star is a Senior Graphic Designer and Art Director in an agency and the corporate environment. She combines digital and traditional techniques, 3D art, and creative coding to create artworks used for her live performances. Sanja Star creates audio-reactive visuals, which enables her to perform interactively with musicians creating an improvised audio-visual set.
The art of Fdez explores social issues influenced by our current world and infused with a reflection of his divided Dominican/American heritage. It uses surrealism, allegory, sarcasm, satire, symbolism & impactful images to compose works that critique world cultures, religions, and social/political issues from the world we live in, with the intent to capture human emotion in response to these.
With an education in Bauhaus architecture, fine art, and music composition, Paul Lorenz has carved an intriguing niche in the international art world: bridging the immediacy of drawing, sound performance, music, and digital collage with the logic and detail of architecture. All media are a balance of physical structure; visual structure; and color, whether overt or atmospheric, allowing the creative process to be the final subject
Zita Vilutyte is a Lithuanian artist based in Siauliai/Kaunas in Lithuania. Zita Vilutyte started work at the Holistic Movement Theater "S." She has expanded from movement performances and music production to interdisciplinary educational projects. Since 2006 she became a member of the ambient music association, Ambient Music Garden (UK), released 17 music albums, music for documentaries, and plays.
Karen V Kanas is a Los Angeles-based artist who was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Karen was fortunate enough to work with such theatre companies as Steppenwolf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Chicago Theatre, and Phoenix Theatre, to name a few. Her background in theatre and architecture has influenced her immensely as an artist. Many pieces of her artwork have been on exhibit in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Jose.
Stepan Ryabchenko is a leading Ukrainian media artist and Art Laboratory chief curator. His work spans conceptual architecture, sculpture, and light installations. He focuses on the boundary between the real and virtual world and the new nature of art. Stepan creates his digital universe with its heroes and mythology. Well-known for his monumental prints and video-art installations of non-existent characters, including Computer viruses, Electronic winds, Virtual flowers, etc.
