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.
Ben Quesnel is a multimedia artist and educator producing work in Stamford, Connecticut. He deconstructs and distorts objects from his everyday experience, apprehending the meanings that have been attached to the items and evaluating them with a new understanding. Through the deliberate placement of these objects in unexpected ways, Quesnel creates a sense of bewilderment, a disruption to challenge certainties and confront preconceptions.
Silvia Felizia is a contemporary abstract artist born in Argentina and currently living in the USA. Her work talks about the presence - and the power - of art made by women, and rethink how women see their lives in the current world and keep growing no matter what society and stereotypes dictate, bringing a different dimension of liberation and knowledge.
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.
Wei Ting Chen was born in Tainan, he uses a lot of childhood memories and symbolic figures such as teddy bears, antique toys, intuitive graffiti drawings, costume characters, and so on. With a background in literature, his painting started as diary recordings, which tend to be in a written form. In order to seek more opportunities for exchange with artists and new projects, he currently lives and works in Tokyo.
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.
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.
Luc Vandervelde Lux is a Belgian artist, living and working in Brussels. No material escapes the eye of the artist: carpets, fabrics, plastic, felt, jute, rubber, knitwear, metal or wooden frames, remnants of roofing, tape, or moving blankets are processed in his visual universe. It is a multi-layered world where found objects are freely brought together to relate to each other in new harmony.
Kelly Borgers is a contemporary Canadian artist, bases in Blue Mountains. Her work explores the use of texture and colour within the confines of a painting. Abstracted with minimal symbolism, she delves into the power of the mind and how emotions can overpower our sense of calmness. Many of her pieces are inspired by the recent events of enduring the pandemic and multiple lockdowns and isolation.
A Young Lee is a visual artist based in Seoul, Korea. She is interested in language, communication, and emotions. Her works use a typography and new language she created. Through the concept of concealment, Lee opens a conversation and suggests that viewers discuss and think about her works in their own ways. She doesn't want her viewers to have certain answers for her works.
Jerry Helle is a 22-year old Cameroonian artist, currently based between Germany, Cameroon, the USA and Portugal. His work represents contrasting value systems, the dynamics of his family’s history, postcolonial theories. Working primarily with abstract painting as the deliberate reduction to the essential, Helle depicts an understanding of his physical, spiritual, and emotional reality.
JR CHUO is a contemporary paper cut and spray paint artist based in the UK, who cuts all of his designs by hand, creating intricate paper artworks. CHUO takes inspiration from the organised nature of urban subway maps and the simplification of metropolitan areas. He also explores the impacts of climate change on coral reefs, juxtaposing this message with the vibrant colours that he uses in his work.
The drawings that Sam Kelly creates express a raw and energetic approach. He repeatedly works and reworks the image. The surfaces are dense and textural. Often using a somber color palette, his work takes on a mysterious and darkened mood. The imagery in Sam’s work is not pre-determined, but rather discovered through his laborious process.
Patrícia Magalhães is a multidisciplinary artist from Lisbon, Portugal. her work is mostly drawing. The contamination with painting, etching, sculpture, and photography in a diversity of mediums and scales that she applies in each work is perceptible. She is represented in some private collections such as Fundação Bienal de Cerveira and Universidade Lisboa, among others.
