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.
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.
Harshil Upadhyay is a fine art photographer and visual artist whose practice explores the delicate space between presence and absence. Influenced by both documentary realism and poetic abstraction, his work captures fleeting moments of solitary figures, transient encounters, and landscapes suspended in time, through the use of motion blur, muted tones, and selective colours.
Katia Shneider is an artist working with installation, sculpture, and video. Her practice focuses on exploring how the individual reconfigures the self and presence in the world amidst ongoing radical social, technological, and cultural transformations. In her practice, Katia explores the phenomenon of the nomadic identity of the contemporary individual.
Xiaohan Wu is a metalsmith and contemporary jewellery artist whose work explores the intersection of form, sound, and communication. Through horn-like and woven metal structures, she translates vibration into visual language. Her practice is rooted in her experience of navigating linguistic and cultural boundaries after moving across countries.
Asiya Al. Sharabi is a Yemeni/American visual artist whose work has gained recognition both nationally and internationally. Currently based in the US, she initiated her career as a journalist and photographer before shifting her focus to artistic photography. Her artistry is rooted in capturing the challenges faced by Middle Eastern women, young adults, and immigrants, a perspective that profoundly influences her creations.
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.
Ulziitugs Enkhbold is a Mongolian artist currently based in Winnipeg, Canada. She works across multiple disciplines and her practice is primarily concentrated around identity and heritage. Her paintings are often completed in oil, while her sculptures are mainly ceramic. Her current body of work consists of oil paintings that analyzes the relationship between immigrants and their home countries.
Carla Piacenza’s work addresses issues that are related to nature and human behavior. Thus, she reflects on gender, identity, migrations, and the environment and climate changes. Taking resources from science and psychology, and transforming them into visual poetics, the works are presented as hypothetical and experiential ideas seeking to decode a personal argument.
