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.
With an education in Bauhaus architecture, fine art, and music composition, Paul Lorenz has carved an intriguing niche in the international art world: bridging the immediacy of drawing, sound performance, music, and digital collage with the logic and detail of architecture. All media are a balance of physical structure; visual structure; and color, whether overt or atmospheric, allowing the creative process to be the final subject
Zita Vilutyte is a Lithuanian artist based in Siauliai/Kaunas in Lithuania. Zita Vilutyte started work at the Holistic Movement Theater "S." She has expanded from movement performances and music production to interdisciplinary educational projects. Since 2006 she became a member of the ambient music association, Ambient Music Garden (UK), released 17 music albums, music for documentaries, and plays.
Karen V Kanas is a Los Angeles-based artist who was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Karen was fortunate enough to work with such theatre companies as Steppenwolf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Chicago Theatre, and Phoenix Theatre, to name a few. Her background in theatre and architecture has influenced her immensely as an artist. Many pieces of her artwork have been on exhibit in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Jose.
Stepan Ryabchenko is a leading Ukrainian media artist and Art Laboratory chief curator. His work spans conceptual architecture, sculpture, and light installations. He focuses on the boundary between the real and virtual world and the new nature of art. Stepan creates his digital universe with its heroes and mythology. Well-known for his monumental prints and video-art installations of non-existent characters, including Computer viruses, Electronic winds, Virtual flowers, etc.
Lab212 is an interdisciplinary art collective, founded in 2008 in Paris by friends who all graduated in Media & Interaction Design at Les Gobelins Paris. Using new media, the collective creates installations that explore Lab212 Collective’s perceptions of space and sound provoke a loss of bearings and offer a sensitive interpretation of impalpable phenomena by giving them materiality as through light and sound beams in space Passifolia, 2020.
Roberto Cuellar fuses elements of design and pop culture with a sculptural and scenographic approach to create free-standing sculptures, installations, and reliefs. Cuellar has been collaborating with various international artists and leading skate brands. His works associated with skateparks and store windows of famous luxury brands have been settings to diverse music and skateboarding videos while remaining visible in the public space.
Tokyo-based media artist Nao Sakamoto, known as NAOWAO, With a background in filmmaking, interior architecture, visual effects, and animation. She explores hybrid worlds between the physical and the digital. NAOWAO creates a story that invites the viewer to explore another perspective of the current world. She questions the meaning of authenticity and how our digital life is affecting it.
Flor de Placebo is a photo-poetic project developed in April 2020, during the quarantine period. It represents different ways of facing confinement when exiled from nature. In addition, Flor de Placebo reflects on the importance of art during the most difficult moments of any human being and the crucial yet subtle relationship of people with their natural surroundings.
Tomoki Uematsu is a Japanese Artist who interprets the sense of subconsciousness experienced by meditation and qigong as emotional memory memorized in the body and expresses the micro and macro world view from the cells of the body to the universe using the motif of nature in the world of surrealism. All work steps are improvised in order to give an intuitive sense of subconsciousness.
Vicky Martin explores her fascination with identity and the emotions created by considered scenarios based on both fantasy and reality. Her work explores identity through staging and creating realities for characters who often display conflicting emotions with situations. Vicky seeks to encourage the viewer to ask questions of her work to which ultimately, the answers depend on the viewer's identity and perceptions.
Nick Metz is focused on the role of masculinity in society and what “compromises” masculinity. What traditionally “feminine” actions or objects impact virility? What makes a man a man? Who/What determines masculinity? Why does society label and condemn men who step outside the general guidelines of masculinity? Metz explores these concepts and themes throughout his work in light of his own experiences and quandaries with these models.
Lexi Sun is a Chinese born multidisciplinary artist, photographer, and art director based in Berlin. Lexi senses rhythm and repetition as the rhizome of her art practice. Throughout her practice, combining installation, performance, photography, moving image, and sound, she explores the rhythm of folding, unfolding, and refolding the repetition.
Christina Michalopoulou’s paintings are figurative, realistic human figures, and body parts in surrealistic environments. Christina often likes to bring realism, sometimes even photorealism, of her figures contrasting with an abstract, pop, or fictional background—a play of surrealism resemblance to a collage.
Carmel Ilan is an obsessive collector of abandoned texts. This no man's land of abandoned books is an interesting position for her to start. Working with paper requires attention to the delicacy, crispness, and fragility of the material. Carmel’s images grow out of folded fields of paper. Reading is transformed into observation. The papers, carriages of text, preserve the material memory from which they came, and at the same time, grow into a new language.
Jenny Day (1981) is a painter who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. How many ways can one approach mourning? Jenny Day has tried to jest at it, deconstruct it, cover loss in trashy glamour and glitter, and reassemble it, so the source material is only hinted at—an assemblage of Instagram snippets and sad wry and sour jokes and heartbreak.
Contemporary Art Magazine, Interview. Salvatore Esposito is an Italian artist based in London, UK. Salvatore tends to use upcycled material in almost all his works, trying to picture an abstract urban view without human- being direct presence; though what remains is still the sign of his/her interventions.
Often referencing European history, Ivan Cáceres’ work explores the varying relationships between forms, geometries, and composition that shape the places we live in. His compositions are usually frontal, geometrical, from a certain distance, assuming a neutral position. Historical memory and disappearance are issues that are always present in Cáceres’ photos.
Peter Horvath is a photo-based and New Media artist who was born in Toronto, Canada. Merging street ephemera, movie posters, photographs, ink and spray paint, Horvath's densely layered assemblage portraits reflect his fascination with media consumption, cultural icons, and urban decay. He shares an affinity with the Décollage of the 1960's Nouveau Réalistes Mimmo Rotella and Jacques Villeglé.
