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.
feeleash (M. Andresakis) actively works in music as well as the international publishing scene, implementing all types of digital graphics and video. Michael combines incompatible worlds into a new universe, increasing the dynamics between the audience and the author, investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.
Ayse U Akarca is a Turkish scientist who balances making art with her career in research at one of the world’s leading institutions at UCL. Working with different cancer tissues, faced with the reality of what this disease is and the effect it has on people’s lives, Ayse thinks about mortality – and the fine line that exists between life and death.
Augusto Poderosi was born in Rome. He works eclectically in the fields of figurative and audiovisual arts. Augusto started his activity in the laboratories of scenography at the Cinecitta Studios. He is also a sculptor, painter and restorer to the holy see he realizes numerous artistic patronage for the Basilica Papale di S.Paolo Fuori le Mura, di S.Antonio di Padova, Basilica Del Cristo Re (Rome) for the Vatican City and various other Roman churches.
Aïda Schweitzer is a Franco-Egyptian performance artist. She lives and works between Luxembourg and Brussels. Without learning in art school, her confusing work is based on "a no" partitioning, a distance from a formatted model, and challenges the established codes. Committed and feminist, her work plunges us into a poetic interiority of pure lines, a legacy of her travels in Asia.
Mattia Peressini works and studies in Lignano Sabbiadoro and Mestre in Italy. His research focuses on providing visual interpretations of sensations, thoughts, and emotions, and on different topics. The mystical and the inner self, as well as today and tomorrow worlds which intertwine, often by crushing or just touching us.
Bogdan feels an urge to paint, as he wants to make up for all the years he has not been painting. His style surfaced intuitively. Bogdan mostly identifies himself with Francis Bacon’s concept of a ‘tightrope walk between what is called figurative painting and abstraction.’ Each painting in multiple performances.
Eun Sun Cho projects revolve around the elements of photographic mediums dealing with physical and technical problems such as measurements, algorithms, analog/digital difference and representation of language of formality accompanied by the process of the image. She investigates the intersection of biology, chemical-physical phenomena and mathematical problems with photographic reality.
Jonathan Walland approaches modern architecture in a way that eliminates distraction and pushes forward a sense of clarity, keeping the viewer focused on the purest elements of photography. He shifts the visual characteristics synonymous with painting onto the photographic medium. Walland’s work is consistent with the massive amount of detail present in each photograph.
Catrinel Sabaciag is a Romanian product designer and artist who studied product design in Edinburgh and Lund and has worked in Eindhoven, Sectie-C. Her work bridges product design, installation, and sculpture in a multidisciplinary approach that often finds its roots in science and philosophy, while the making, quite experimental, is oriented towards material exploration.
Absent Chronicles was born out of a need to express, construct, tear down and process. It is the music created by structuring chaos juxtaposed by visuals generated by processing musical parameters while trying to implement the almost inevitable technological changes happening around us, instead of fighting against them: walking the intersection of art and technology, exploring the stories yet to be told.
The work investigates the exploration and exploitation of “human symbology,” the many “forms” of how we relate to ourselves and others. Wolfryd aims to “awaken minds” to fleeting governing laws by virtue of playing pictorial detective through challenging social norms. He creates a tangible environment in which the viewer challenges the perspectives about the qualities of culture and history.
JP Racca Vammerisse, a Paris based sculptor with a passion for ceramics. He stages mixed media works masterfully, often injecting other materials such as textiles, plastic, glass, or cardboard, with a keen sense of drama. His artistic production is inspired by both popular and erudite culture. Sources range from Gothic Fantasy to Tex Avery, from gleeful reinterpretations of ornamental styles of Late Baroque architecture to artifacts of the 19th century.
Aomi Kikuchi is a Japanese creator of innovative fine arts. She is inspired by Buddha’s philosophies of impermanence, insubstantiality, and suffering in all life—referred to in Japanese as Mujo(無常), Muga (無我), and Ku,(苦). She raises awareness that acceptance of impermanence and insubstantiality can liberate from dissatisfaction or suffering.
Krishna Pulkundwar deals with different artistic mediums, techniques, and processes. He believes simple is the best, but the simplest thing is the most difficult to create. His work is inspired by every sensible thought, where raw thoughts are subconscious visuals. In day to day activities, problems, attractive forms, desires, expectations, leave reflections on his mind.
Tobias Tavella’s "Dynamic Studio Practice" examines sculpture, sound, and objects according to their space-constituting consequences. He creates new contexts of meaning where sounds, "objet trouvés" from nature, and technology are his primal spatial experience of fragility. With his temporary spatial interventions, he reflects the social framework of art and its conditions of production and representation.
Gudrun Latten discusses aesthetic problems and questions in photographs and videos, including the image and all its qualities, reality and illusion, art-historical genres, pluralism in style, the ambiguity of signs, gender, and identity issues. His videos are figurative art and are about abstraction, digital color, and movement, visualizing abstract content with figures. He admires Surrealism above all, while the tradition of baroque still life is also essential for his pictures.
Cheryl Safren has abandoned traditional artistic materials altogether and creates art-employing chemical processes on metal. She cannot get enough of learning about new materials. and harnesses chemistry to create art. To most artists, experimentation is an essential part of finding their voice. For Safren, the process is a central aspect of any artist’s work, but the materials usually employed do not evolve as much as the artists do.
Susana Aldanondo embodies in her work the joy found in the human connection, focusing on the positives through gestural abstraction, splattered and dripped paint, large and thin strokes, straight lines, and loose curvilinear forms. She creates movement and energy that stand out in her abstract paintings. She expresses a deep connection to identity and spirituality, appealing to deep feelings of connection to ourselves and others.
