Svetlana Bakhareva is a visionary visual artist and performer, that lives and works in Barcelona. Key directions in her practice include embodied experience, the perception of environment as a living space, and engagement with the more-than-human. These vectors are unified through an exploration of experiences that extend beyond purely material perception.
ChingKe Lin is a bamboo artist rooted in material philosophy, expanding the contemporary possibilities of bamboo. Rather than reproducing traditional craft, he approaches bamboo as an explorer, studying its tension and resilience to seek a deeper bond between nature and human experience. His work grows from the essence of the material, turning bamboo weaving into a fluid spatial language.
Zhi-Jiang Shan is an interior designer known for his cross-cultural design sensibility and poetic spatial expression. He often draws inspiration from classical Chinese landscapes, local craftsmanship, and symbolic spatial rituals, transforming them into immersive environments that resonate with modern life. His projects are not only functional but emotionally engaging.
Doug Winter is a semi-sighted North American conceptual photographic artist and filmmaker whose artworks focus on the preoccupation of light and non-figurative forms. Doug's non-representational photographs of conventional objects and their environments are derived from the human body's resilience to adapt and accommodate a physical disability and emotional trauma.
Ruonan Shen is a visual artist and photographer based in London. Her work engages with gender expression and transformation, focusing on China’s emerging drag scene as a lens through which to question the boundaries of beauty, strength, and self-presentation. Shen creates highly staged environments that balance intimacy and control, presence and absence.
In June Park is a Korean painter currently based in New York. His paintings capture archived moments in our lives and are rendered on canvas in slow, acrylic layers. Ranging from religious icons to left-behind household items, his subjects are pulled out of their environment to engage with other works in the series, forming a collective narrative.
Ling-Jung Chu is an artist whose practice centres on feminism and the exploration of consciousness. Her practice centres on the shaping of the female body under patriarchy and the unease surrounding gender perception. Through deliberate bodily transformation, she addresses these themes across media, including performance, video, and found objects.
Run Wu is a Chinese Australian interdisciplinary digital artist, filmmaker, and signed commercial director currently based in Paris and London. Drawing inspiration from his multicultural background and experiences across continents, Run's work often reflects themes of displacement, transformation, and the human condition.
Malwina Jachimczak is developing a career as a visual artist. She offers people art like orange soda: fizzy, a little sweet, slightly tart, and emotionally accessible. Her art resonates with its format, the intensity of its colours, and the richness of its emotions. It is a testament to her inner expansion.
Zhiyu You is a Chinese-born illustrator and tattoo artist based in New York. Her practice combines traditional painting techniques with digital drawing, forming a visual language shaped by her Chinese cultural background. Through this hybrid approach, she explores the lived experiences of women and marginalised communities, focusing on moments that are often overlooked or unspoken.
Samantha Lance is a Canadian curator and writer whose work fosters meaningful connections between artists and communities. As a curator, she sees herself as a listener, learner, collaborator, and conceptual engineer when it comes to working with artists and planning exhibitions. She gravitates towards voices that have not had the chance to share their narrative.
In recent years, her works address notions associated with the haphazardness, demarcated territories, or transient shelters in the context of acute global issues concerning the future and integrity of our planet. She creates site-specific installations and sculptural objects, using ready-made and man-made materials.
Fabio Alves is a Brazilian visual artist graduated in Psychology, and a person with a disability, a characteristic he likes to reinforce in his life, and his way of seeing the world. Through black-and-white photography, he creates meditative images. He is currently developing a project that explores disabled women’s corporeality and self-image.
Cizzoe Yi Wang (b. 2000, China) is an interdisciplinary artist who grew up in the UK. She is working across installation, performance, sculpture, and documentary filmmaking. Conceptually driven and informed by her background in social anthropology, her practice explores human interaction as a structured game governed by societal rules.
Yasuaki Matsuura is a Tokyo-based contemporary artist whose practice centres on the theme of “new memory.” He uses the camera, its form, function, and cultural role, not just as a tool, but as both subject and medium. His works invite users to slow down, to look, and to feel the presence of time and others. Each camera is not just a device, but a proposition.
Zj Pan lives and works in Chicago, US. Pan works with sculpture, performance, and new media, meditating and investigating the uncanniness of our modern human condition. Working to resist the shocks and simulations in everyday life, he uses animation and humour to transform and demystify objects. Pan animates objects' forms and functions in a DIY approach with sculptural sensibilities.
Yezi Lou is a Chinese artist, who challenges classical oil painting through subtle shifts in palette and bold subject choices. Her practice revolves around objects as entry points into explorations of belonging, nostalgia, and alienation. Her paintings feature mundane objects stripped of original economic value, reflecting shifting identities and interactions beyond traditional social frameworks.
Yuyang (Lily) Wei is a Chinese-New Zealander artist currently living and working in London. Drawing on her own experiences growing up between New Zealand and China, a topic that concerns Yuyang's artworks is the identity crisis of Third-Culture Kids. Paintings in this section depict Yuyang's personal feelings of being part of a diaspora.
Dijun Sha (Shine Sha) is a London-based multimedia artist, jewellery designer, and curator whose work bridges the gap between traditional craftsmanship, digital innovation, and curatorial storytelling. Dijun’s practice is deeply rooted in narrative-driven creation, transforming jewellery from a wearable object into an interactive, conceptual medium.
Erica Zhan is an interdisciplinary artist and writer born in the southeastern hills of China and currently based in Chicago, US. They employ performance, moving images, installation, and writing to explore games, sports, competitions, and playfulness in the context of consumerism. By using low-tech language and parodic methods, Zhan wants to scrutinize the zones of freedom in human society.
Sofia Malemina is a multimedia artist working with timed-based mediums such as video, sound, light, and immersive installations. She established her artistic career in London by blending digital technologies with traditional techniques to explore themes such as identity, perception, and the interplay between physical and virtual spaces. Sofia Malemina
Matteo Cervone is an Italian photographer, based in Milan. After working for 25 years in multinational service companies as a behavioral trainer, he approached photography later in life, establishing himself as an artist. His series Other Worlds is a visual journey in time and space, where traffic lights become the main character of an urban stage.
Edward L. Rubin is an award-winning fine art photographer, production designer, and painter based in Los Angeles. In his series My Mannequin Moment, he depicts the transcendent moment when we realize we are no longer aligned with the roles, beliefs, or relationships we've accepted and where the veil is lifted and we confront the false ideals imposed on us.
Giulia Guasta Guarnaccia is a digital artist and an intersectional activist; she also considers herself an interdisciplinary researcher and a data archaeologist. In her work, she mixes social engagement with varied artistic practices, always linked to ethical issues; in her opinion, there's a strong need to deconstruct ourselves going through privileges and marginalities.
