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.
Yixuan Nie is a rising multidisciplinary artist and fashion designer based in New York, whose work has been celebrated for its bold narrative power and innovative vision. Originally from Beijing, she draws profound inspiration from the layered textures of hutong life, infusing them with global relevance and artistic depth. She also works across styling, printmaking, and illustration.
Slitrobo (Vova Shlygin, b. 1991, Russia) is a contemporary artist working at the intersection of art, technology, and philosophy. His practice investigates the relationship between consciousness and matter, exploring life as a recursive expression of dynamic stability within chaos. Through software-based systems and audiovisual installations, he creates digital environments.
Sergey Piskunov (b. 1989, Ukraine) is a hyperrealist painter based in the Netherlands. His large-scale figurative works merge classical oil painting with symbolic and gold elements, reflecting precision, depth and a meditative dedication to the craft. Each work unfolds through hundreds of hours of detailed execution, inviting the viewer into a quiet, intimate encounter.
Mariia Pavlyk is a Ukrainian designer working across fashion through sculptural textiles and environment-driven narrative. Raised in Kyiv, she shaped her aesthetic through Ukrainian culture, nature, and regional crafts, forming pieces that feel both intimate and elemental. Her practice navigates memory, culture, and resilience, weaving ancestral crafts into sculptural garments.
Andrea Ghidorzi, the mind behind Moan Studios, has created an artistic dimension where analogue and digital art converge through introspection, exploration and a look toward the future. Andrea's practice explores identity, perception and the evolving dialogue between the self and its environment. He approaches images, sound and mixed media as instruments for navigating inner transformations.
Natalia Oginskaya (b. 1980, Moscow) is an artist and mosaicist. For her, mosaic is a medium that resists haste. Each “imperfection” becomes a sign of life. This slowness allows her to address themes of inner strength, resilience, and freedom. Her mosaics are meditations on human dignity: the right to imperfection, the beauty of fragility, and the value of a slower gaze upon the world.
Priyanka Pulijal is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles and New York whose work explores imagined afterlives, cosmic states, and the unseen forces that shape human experience. Through large-scale paintings and immersive environments, she builds speculative worlds that merge surrealism, science fiction, and metaphysical inquiry creating sensory portals between the known and the unknown.
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.
Ece Batur is a London-based contemporary artist whose practice critically examines the entanglements of gendered violence, censorship, and cultural memory as they are inscribed upon the body and the domestic sphere. Working across performance, installation, sound, and text, her practice mobilises materials imbued with domestic and intergenerational feminist symbolism.
Syona Cheng is a visual artist and photographer who merges fashion, fine art, and surreal digital collage. She transforms familiar gestures into psychological landscapes, revealing how identity and emotion are continually shaped by connection, memory, and space. Her ongoing series Torn and Reconstructed forms part of a broader visual trilogy exploring the cyclical process of fracture and renewal.
Haochen He is an architectural and visual designer whose work explores the intersection of ecological systems, human perception, and technological mediation. Working across architecture and visual art, he translates analytical methods into aesthetic inquiries, seeking to reveal how data, atmosphere, and material converge to form new narratives of coexistence.
Yi Wang is a licensed architect based in New York and the founder of Studio Yione, recognised for its innovative engagement with space, materiality, and historical context. Yi explores how design can bridge collective memories and visions, integrating art, technology, and sustainability to shape public perception and urban experience. Her latest jewelry series is titled Body-as-Site.
