Lohrasb Bayat (b. 1990, Tehran, Iran) is a self-taught artist based in Tehran. His practice delves into the dynamics of power, uncertainty, and resilience within socio-political and psychological landscapes. Working primarily with painting, Bayat explores the tension between vulnerability and defiance, often through figures caught in ambiguous or constrained situations.
Yulin Peng is the curator and director of Galerie de Nuage, a contemporary art gallery and cultural platform operating between New York and Hong Kong. A licensed architect with a Master of Architecture from Columbia University, her practice spans curation, design, and economic research. Her work bridges the creative and the quantitative, contributing to broader questions of how culture is shaped.
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.
Nataraj von Allmen is a painter based in Switzerland. Often taking photographic material as a starting point, he weaves together landscapes, mythological archetypes, Christian symbolism, and contemporary socio-political themes into complex paintings. Oscillating between figuration and abstraction, his work investigates transformation, collective memory, and the human condition.
Veronika Fox is a contemporary Ukrainian artist based in New York City. work explores the space where emotion, imagination, and symbolism intersect. She paints intuitively and moving between abstraction, figuration, surrealism, and escapism, she creates expressive figures, dreamlike forms, and recurring robots that have become her visual signature.
Aunia Kahn is a contemporary artist and curator working across gouache, acrylic, colored pencil, and dimensional mixed media, creating layered compositions that weave personal narrative with rich cultural symbolism. The originator of Contemporary Symbolist Folk, a lineage rooted in symbolic depth and personal mythos, Kahn draws from French Canadian, German, Polish and Scandinavian folklore.
Carmen Vornicelu is a Romanian artist working across visual systems, text, sound, spatial situations, and participatory formats. Her current research framework, Pre-Economic Architecture, investigates the conditions that precede the formation of economic, institutional, or political value, examining the criteria that shape what can become relevant.
Yidan Chen is a visual artist whose practice moves between installation, sculpture, experimental film, and olfactory media. She explores the cultural dissonance and perceptual shifts that arise in cross-cultural life. Her practice investigates how identity is shaped and unsettled through sensory cues, inherited symbols, and the subtle social expectations placed on Asian bodies in Western contexts.
Alexandru Crișan is a visual artist interested in the existential complementarity of objective and nonobjective forms of expression. His latest series, FRAGMENTA DEORUM I, proposes a contemporary archaeology of the mythic body. In this series, Crișa constructs a visual language that fractures and reconstitutes the divine.
Mr Yi Zhu is a Chinese artist. He puts forward the creative philosophy of "Deconstructing the Material, Reconstructing the Spiritual". Influenced by Wittgenstein and Deleuze, he argues that creation consists in building an unreal spiritual world out of the real physical world, deconstructing an actual structure and reconstructing it to establish an intangible spiritual space.
Lumaya is a Lithuanian digital artist exploring the relationship between human consciousness, emotional memory, and visual structure. Her practice combines a background in information systems engineering with meditation and energy-based practices. Through symbolic visual systems created with digital and AI-assisted tools, she investigates invisible inner processes.
Raquel Sanchez is a multidisciplinary artist and poet based in Jerusalem. With a diverse upbringing, her artistic journey spans decades of study in painting, ceramics, sculpture, and design, both formally and informally. In her visual work, Sanchez explores light, reflection, nature, and biblical symbolism to evoke spiritual dimensions of human experience.
Tereza Jobová is a Czech photographer working primarily with staged photography, alongside painting, collage, and poetry. Her photographic series UNDERCURRENTS explores the hidden, wild, and unconscious forces that are still at work in our rational, civilized world, shaping us whether we want them to or not. UNDERCURRENTS exposes the dark, hidden layers of human existence and the subconscious.
Sasan Nasernia explores different avenues in Persian and Arabic classical and modern calligraphy, working with painting, print, digital work and installation. Playing with the tension between two opposing primordial elements—order and chaos —Nasernia borrows from traditional Persian paintings and iconography, immersing these elements in abstraction and ambiguity through his letterforms.
Yicheng Zhu is a freelance multidisciplinary visual artist. She frequently draws inspiration from real-world references and, influenced by her Chinese heritage, often incorporates elements of Chinese culture into her work. Whether it's a futuristic cityscape, a post-apocalyptic wasteland, or an ancient sacred ruin, Yicheng brings each world to life with fresh and compelling visual storytelling.
Mingxuan Zhang's artistic practice centres on the fluidity and de-symbolisation of the body, exploring the complex relationship between the body, space, and gaze through distortion and absence. She creatively incorporates ready-made fabrics from the real world into her paintings, capturing the transition between the “virtual” and the “real.” She currently lives between London and Hong Kong.
Ruoyu Gong is a New York-based painter. His work delves into the complexity of the human psyche in the theme of personal symbolism. Ruoyu sees painting as a way to uncover the veiled tensions within his psyche. Through this distillation process, he navigates the labyrinth of his psychological landscape that often lies dormant beneath the surface of daily life.
Mahta Salehi is an Iranian artist currently living in the US. In her recent paintings investigate psychological transformation and the tension between confinement and freedom by combining abstraction and figuration and using symbolic imagery. In her work, she uses experimental techniques and layered compositions to encourage viewers to interact with the shifting nature of psychological landscapes.
Keight is a multidisciplinary artist who explores a variety of experiments and mediums, ranging from “traditional” art to immersive installations and digital works. Equal parts artist and designer, and both conceptual and expressionist, Keight takes the viewer on a visual journey through his unique language, peppered with references and symbolic pictograms that circumscribe his abundant universe.
Tanapol Suriyachottakul is a Thai artist born in 2001 in Bangkok. He approaches his art with a methodical, almost analytical mindset, likening his process to solving equations. Central to his work is the concept of Nihilism, which he portrays through calculated compositions and symbolic objects like mannequins and metallic forms. His paintings construct a world of distorted realities.
Emi Avora is a Greek-born, UK-trained, and Singapore-based artist. She subject matter from her everyday life in Asia as well as her Greek ancestry with a focus on a combination of interior spaces, still life, and landscape. Often, her paintings present encounters or ‘conversations’ between seemingly disparate objects or symbols.
Alina R.J. is a London-based multidisciplinary artist with a Central Asian background, currently pursuing her Master's degree at the Royal College of Art. Alina's recent research focuses on Eastern philosophies, Jungian psychology – specifically Individuation and The Self – as well as tools to reconnect with this part of our psyche, including meditation.
Within the vibrant artistic landscape of London, Moyu Yang garners recognition as an artist of notable acclaim. Her creative pursuits span across sculpture, set design, body performance, experimental film and fashion, while showcasing a diverse artistic practice. In the "Presence" series, she highlights the neglected factors of language and inspires feminists to reflect on themselves.
