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.
Born in 1988, Emirati artist and entrepreneur Maisoon Al Saleh is active in Dubai and internationally. Her art dives below the obvious meaning residing on the surface of stories and accounts of the past. She is inspired by historic representational art. Her work brings viewers into a discussion about the importance of Emirati history and challenges how we think about history, memory and their representation in mainstream media.
Anna Snegina abstract expressionism work often includes dynamic brushstrokes as well as drips of paint. It may accurate geometric shapes and elements. Whether it’s a photo or a sculpture, it’s always the creative process that leads Anna in her art, and it’s a study of the world and introspection at the same time. She aims to inspire those who see her artwork to discover the beauty in colors, shapes, everyday objects.
Born in Amsterdam to Afghani parents, and studied at the Royal Academy of Art at the Hague, Qeas Pirzad learned very early in life to navigate between two opposite worlds. He uses creativity as a bridge and battles with a sense of belonging that deviates from his ancestors. Qeas Pirzad’s most recent body of work takes a critical view of the creation of personalized existence while reflecting on societal and ancestral influences.
A small body photography series of floral images became the base for Emma Coyle’s abstract work. Her art began with each photograph being minimally drawn, taking away its 3-dimensional aspect, and then sized up on the board or canvas. Her work questions what can be considered a painting, how abstract art is evolving, and how artists can develop ideas to create something of their own.
Dina Cline works are critical engagements with philosophical principals of aesthetics and questions of existentialism. More recently, Dina Cline's painting has engaged with issues of psychology and mental health, as well as notions of the existence of God. As someone living with bipolar disorder and experiencing periods of mania and depression, she has a unique perspective on the human brain.
Giovanni De Benedetto is a klecksography Italian artist who enhances the aesthetic power of his paintings through the means of photography. Giovanni aims to broaden people’s point of view by making them embrace multiple perspectives to establish a temporary empathic connection for feeling more close as human beings on a deep level.
Jennifer Orhélys is a Photo Vogue published photographer who studied cinema, visual arts, and art history. her photographic working the “scénaristique” staging inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite and Romantic periods of classical paintings. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Kiyo Sato Photographic Museum.
A duo, collective artists that work into thematic series of “microfictions” fragments that highlight aspects of human nature, making them symbolically visible. Their work is rooted in the margins of reality where fiction is the way, to tell the truth about the ecological perspective to understand the interdependence of Man/Nature.
A female artist who pursues to envelop the absurd and irrational idea about the body, especially the female body as a physical object through sensorial language. Minah searches the way of interpreting the history of power struggle and dynamics that have surrounded the mass of this membrane existing in a contemporary context.
Michail Parlamas was born in 1977 in Piraeus, Greece. He studied Painting at the Aristotle University Thessaloniki, in the department of Applied and Fine Arts. He moved to London to complete his postgraduate studies as SaintMartins College of Art and Design (MA in Fine Arts) and East London University (Professional Doctorate in Fine Art).
