Renowned for their versatility and innovative use of mixed media, Chen Yang specializes in digital media art, moving images, as well as painting and sculpture installations. Their creative practice is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach, through which they investigate and articulate the nuanced dialogues between human societies and their habitats.
Xinyu Zhang, also known as DayDay, is a contemporary artist originally from Wuhan, Hubei, China, and currently based in New York. Drawing inspiration from daily observations, existential reflections, and a relentless curiosity to explore diverse materials, Xinyu's art is distinguished by minimalist lines and symbols, continually seeking a delicate balance between design principles and fine art.
Delphine Cuelenaere is driven by curiosity in both subject and method. The technique of woodcarving gives her the opportunity to be surprised by the material. Open-minded departures from the unknown and a radical openness to not knowing what will come are the essence of her artistic process. Slowly and unpredictably, scenes emerge in which voyeur and protagonist, spectator and artist, intertwine.
Jiangshengyu Nova Pan is a moving image and installation artist, currently based in Baltimore (USA). work focuses on human mobility. Working from the perspective of the individual, Pan’s work explores the profound transformations of space, power relations, and social networks faced by a mobile population through sculptures and videos, appropriating everyday life scenes based on her semi-fictional writings.
Jiaming You is a painter and installation artist based in Chicago. You utilizes found imagery and photos taken by themselves to construct scenes of bodies in non-existent scenarios as an attempt to critique the limiting nature of social norms in depicting individuality and uses their experience and positionality as a non-binary immigrant as a source of knowledge and site of exploration to the confines of social norms and the distribution of power.
Hadeel AlZoubi is a contemporary artist based in Toronto. Her artistic journey is a constant exploration of mediums and techniques. She thrives on pushing the boundaries of artistic expression by incorporating a diverse array of materials. Ultimately, Hadeel's art is an invitation to transcend the chaos of modern life and find solace in the simplicity of her creations.
Connor Daly is a British fine art photographer from Jersey (Channel Islands), currently based in the UK. His work explores varying levels of colour and compositional effects that provoke spatial ambiguity, using a painterly and abstract style that is evocative of nostalgia, memory, and the passing of time. Furthermore, his work is predominantly concerned with the depiction of a space, exploring broad visual styles.
With a background in tattooing, Ben Große-Johannböcke, born in Melle, Germany, in 2002, explores the relationship between musical compositions and visual arts. A large part of his work consists of graphite drawings on canvas, isolated mark-making with neither form nor colour. These patterns/structures aim to visually recreate certain parts of the musical composition they respond to.
Lydia Schreibikus (Suslova) is a photographer and screenwriter researching the correlation of different art forms. Her creative practice mainly focuses on photography and film scripts. The photographs reveal the connection between light and form, the destruction of the effect of one-sided visibility. Light does not just show the object but creates the composition itself; all that remains is to see and capture the moment before it crumble.
Rou Jiao's expertise in graphic design extends beyond traditional boundaries, as she adeptly combines her skills in AI art, motion design, and 3D art to create a truly immersive and captivating visual experience. Based in New York, she has been honing her craft since 2016, constantly pushing herself to explore new avenues and expand her creative horizons.
From mixed media on canvas, wooden sculptures, and murals to digital graphic art and photography, Ivad Bassil tells his story in various forms and shapes. His artwork is constantly evolving, driven by tireless personal quests and an unbound curiosity for new techniques. In his latest series, Wonderland, he captured the negative energy of the lockdown and transformed it into Beauty, Construction, Positivity, and Dialogue.
Koo J is a South Korean artist, currently based in Seoul, South Korea. She works on photography with a warm color film camera. The loneliness and anxiety of everyday life in the crushed image, while recalling the feeling of excitement, also express various emotions, such as moments of the past and fears and expectations for the future. For painting, she works on abstractions to convey emotions.
Rachel Jag is a self-taught artist. Exploring the approach to the unknown, trying to get closer to the creative process of turning one flash of inspiration in a single moment into something with a life of its own, is the most fascinating to the artist. Intuition leads the way. The communication between the artist, the source of her inspiration, and what is being created on paper opens up new, unseen doors and unexplored fields.
Ernestine Louise is a writer and painter, currently based in Oslo, Norway. She works with paper, acrylic, and mixed media. Her work is an exploration of the self, space, place, feelings, emotions, and color in a non-concrete way. Placed-based art is essential to her practice, using a method of ̈en plein air ̈, not to paint the landscape, but to use the elements of nature as material and co-creator.
Kwong is a multi-disciplinary artist who focuses on oil painting and fiction writing. After learning the basics from art teachers, he developed his own artistic approach while serving in the journalistic field for 30 years. He usually starts with concepts in his painting process, and concepts are converted into symbols, which he uses to build up a connection between contemporary art and memories, history and his community.
Anita Tiwary is an Indian visual artist, currently based in New Delhi. Anita Tiwary's paintings are the thread of her inner journey of known, unknown, and beyond for an eternity which reflects in her Soulscapes, Dream Narratives, and Abstract representational art. Anita Tiwary's work is about the interconnection of all kinds of beings with nature and the universe.
Marija Toskovic's work is based on an abstract “self-landscape,” which aims to redefine the perception of an external projection of the inner identity. She is interested in exploring the idea of (im)permanence of the “other side” on the horizon and in the landscape, which defines the immutability of intimate geography in her work.
West has established a unique painting language that has been created through the combination of original and derived techniques, executing paintings that represent the now as he sees it. In his ongoing series Borderline Painting West works within abstraction and focuses on colour, energy, form, and technical expansion. His broad range of methodology forms bodies of work that are dynamic and non linear.
Monika Katterwe is a German photographer based in Luckenwalde. Using the Tyndall effect, Monika started by visualizing the light rays in different media and observing the interaction of light with crystals. She questions her observations on the formation of space in the fluid through the comparative analyses with scientific publications on this topic.
Suly Bornstein-Wolff creates objects, installations as well as paintings. Usually creating large-scale paintings, her subject varies from landscape to architecture, from figurative to abstract. Esthetics is a major focus in both her paintings and objects. By using readymade material, she emphasizes the quality and the beauty of the object, as if it was a jewel.
Ukrainian-born Annet Katan is a photographer and designer currently based in San Francisco, United States. Annet believes that there is always room for improvement and growth. She is pursuing her dreams and looking forward to learning to explore and inspire others on their journeys. Her series Abstract Colorscapes was conceived during the Covid-19 lockdown as a depiction of landscapes she had previously seen.
Pavel Korbička is a Czech artist, currently living and working in Brno. Korbička exploits each creative impulse down to the minutest detail and is able to bring his message across with the use of the most economical devices, his idiom conveying an experience of great intensity. He works with space, light, and color, employing various combinations of new and classical technologies.
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.
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.
Giorgio Gerardi is an Italian artist living in Favaro Veneto, Venice. He is a self-taught artist, and works by projects, divided into series of multiple images; among the latest, there are "Clouds", "Leaves" and "Details", and all focus on the search for details. Giorgio is not interested in a representation of the object. He is not interested in depicting it as it is; he tries to get a final image that has shapes and colors that he likes.
