Wang Boyuan is an artist based in London and China who explores absurdity and fantasy through printmaking, moving images, drawing, etc. Wang Boyuan’s works employ imagination and humor to reflect and rethink identity, sexuality, social constraints, and underlying ideologies. His current work is a series of drawings that serve as self-portraits exploring my possibilities, desires, and emotions.
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.
Ada Yueting Wu is an interdisciplinary artist born in China and currently based in the United States. Through installation, performance, and sound, she creates visceral experiences that critically examine the production of silence and truth within systems of control. By subjecting the body to counter forces or exposing it as a malfunctioning circuit within various systems, she scrutinizes relationships of powers and disciplines.
Susan Sitko is a Polish multidisciplinary artist currently working in Brighton, UK. Her photography series Sensitive Flesh and The Vessel have been recognized for the poetic exploration of moments where humanity merges with the natural world. In both projects, she includes many tactile elements that result in images with a unique sensory quality.
Qi Zhuang (1999, China) is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and animator based in London, United Kingdom. Her project 未知晓 Unknown is a semi-improvised live performance created with costumes as a starting point, combining visual art, dance, music, installation and performing art. The concept of the work comes from a conversation with a monk.
Maya Smira is a multidisciplinary artist using video, photography, dance, performance & installation. She explores global and interpersonal issues and is interested in land changes, geographic, social and psychological processes. As a traveling artist, the physical space allows her to express new aspects of herself, while also talking about questions in society and the environment.
Song Rao is a Chinese visual artist living in Brooklyn, New York. He works in different art forms, including photography, installations, illustrations, and short videos. He uses composition and graphics to clone multiple selves, captured humorous scenes that also express profound meaning, social injustice, racism, queerness, and more from his life in NYC. His photos each show a different pose and meticulous expression.
Zhiling Chen is a New York-based lingerie designer. Born in Suzhou, China, she moved to the United States at the age of 15. She describes her work as a combination of sensuality and rationality by using lines, shapes, blocks of color, and just the right amount of embellishments. She believes that underwear is not just something "under the fashion", but it is an element that can make people feel conformable in their skin.
Gülsah Ayla Bayrak (1997) is a multidisciplinary artist from Belgium. Ayla has roots in Turkey and Georgia, which influenced her work drastically. The artist creates connections between east and west and tries to overcome the imaginary border between the two continents. The artist focuses on Individual experience, cultural diaspora, and society's role in her life.
Milena ZeVu is a Serbian artist based in Belgrade. She always wanted her art to be more dynamic. Her latest series, ArtWalks, emphasizes her need to free art from the conventional exhibition space and the dominant western system of contemporary art, to which most artists are strongly subordinated. Milena unites with her art to defend it and preserve art's supreme independence and freedom.
Kamila CK is a multidisciplinary artist merging boundaries between performance art (circus, movement, dance, musicality), abstract painting, and Japanese Zen calligraphy in a contemporary art context. Polish-born, educated and based in the UK. She is also experimenting with an idea for a live performance merging live abstract painting with circus and contemporary storytelling.
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.
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.
Evgeniia Kazarezova is a ceramic designer based in Bratislava, Slovakia. She primarily works with clay as with one of the ancient and natural materials humans worked with. The combination of traditional techniques and modern technologies allows Evgeniia to achieve unobvious results during the design process.
Beatriz Montes, or better known as Ruska, is a visual artist, photographer, illustrator, video artist, and performer born in Madrid, Spain, that shows violence and experimental ethnography through those disciplines. Her references are based on video art and films, with artists such as Bill Viola, Alan Berlirner, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Sadie Benning, or Jonas Mekas.
LI MO is a Los Angeles-based fashion and knitwear designer that grew up in Shenzhen province in China. Her works reflect her own experiences and have formed her talented mind and creative vision. It explores the distinctiveness and newness of the world. She characterizes her signature aesthetic through elevating the innovation of spirituality and unique design.
Sotiria Bramou works as a Visual Designer in the city of Athens. She moves and experiments by blurring the lines between visual & wearable art. Sotiria's work deconstructs the dominant social stereotypes and expresses her own values as a worker, as a female, as a designer. She gets inspired by the "abnormal", the "dirty", the "freak", and the "obscene".
Patrick Vandecasteele explores the physical, psychological and social posture of humans, the various costumes they wear to dress their intimate hiatuses. He tries to restore the spontaneity of human posture, its fleetingness, the unconscious that inhabits a body and its outfit, the links between composure and thoughts, gestures and intentions, mental melee.
He paint our struggle to face others, to approach others, the struggle between our multiple intimacies, between our imperative of life in society, of submission to servitudes and the imperative need for autonomy, individuality.
Marcello Silvestre’s artworks narrate the city through the emotions, the smells, the flavors and the noises. He relates the indissoluble relationship between man and city sculpting bodies, legs and arms on which he lets towers and houses arise in a continuous flow. He creates dreamlike visions and interweaving of soft lines, triangles and edges.
Cherrie Yu is born in Xi'an, China. She currently lives and works from Chicago. Yu is the author of the Narrative Series is a series of videos in which classical narratives and characters were reenacted with thrift objects or foods. The narrative is chosen often signals a significant change to the characters selected, such as their marriage, death, exile, or injury.
