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 Chinaβs 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.
Can Cui, originally from Beijing and currently based in New York, is known for her sculptural silhouettes and thoughtful explorations of material. Her work combines technical precision with conceptual depth, often engaging with themes of identity, transformation, and emotional texture. Can continues to challenge conventional structures and explore the expressive possibilities of fashion.
Lucrezia Rossi is an Italian photographer based in Berlin, Germany. In her work, Lucrezia photographs staged self-portraits, and daily life encounters by combining humor with reality and intimacy with softness. By re-signifying her past experiences through her images, this search for meaning becomes present, honest, delicate, and light. For Al-Tiba9 she is presenting her latest series, βMy Traviataβ.
Fan de FantΓ‘stica is a Film Director, Collage Maker, and Multi-Talented Artist currently based in Madrid, Spain. In her funky, playful, and over the top imaginary world of mixed media collages, there are numerous details of traditional far east philosophies and contemporary western point of views. One way or another, she has mixed all her 'weird' personal experiences into her collage creations.
Anastasia Golovneva is a Russian painter, currently based in Moscow. Anastasia lived for many years with Khanty indigenous northern people side by side. Her work deals with the Ugric world. Harmonious, but so fragile, it was destroyed in just a couple of decades because of oil production. Anastasia believes that it is necessary to know and understand the consequences of oil production and depicts it in her art.
Imelda Wei Ding Lo is a multi-disciplinary writer, artist, podcaster, and game developer who is passionate about environmentalism, technology, alternative health, and above all, story-telling mediums that explore character psychology and development. Her latest project is the graphic novel βThe Book of Joelβ.
Marcel Top is a 23 years old London-based Belgian photographer. Alongside his traditional use of photography, Top also explores the limits and boundaries of the medium through his practice. Top has always been fascinated by the power of technology, by the ambiguity of its double-faced nature. Breach of privacy, mass surveillance, and the collection of personal data is among Topβs recurring topics.
Kinnari Saraiya is an Indian artist based in the UK. Having grown up with the stories of the colonial empire told by her grandfather, she is fascinated by the physical evidence of this history in the landscape of India and England. It voices a counterculture of stories which depicts the dysfunctions of the world and forces a new type of meaning to be created through her work.
Photography always has been for Eric Pijnaken a way to find his way to the world of phenomena in which he lives. He felt the need to reveal another reality within the reality surrounding us. His photo work focuses on the essentials of what he sees. After a career as a journalist, he now lives and works in the French province of Ardèche, where he can freely enjoy his work as a photographer.
Dalia KiaupaitΔ is a professional Lithuanian female artist, mostly working in and in-between theatre, opera, and visual artβs fields. She collaborates with several a different theaters, operas, cultural events and activities as stage, costumes, and light designer. As an independent artist, Dalia KiaupaitΔ is researching topics of femininity and recognition of cultural signs - stereotypes and archetypes - in contemporary time.
Noor Taan is a German/Lebanese interdisciplinary designer currently based in New York City. Her work focuses on experiments with natural products such as in the Loofah project. Her artwork ranges from illustrations to photography and installation. It includes visual investigations using collages and digital art.
As a traveler of the analog-digital synthesis, the visual artist Nae Zerka never stops exploring. Nae's inspiration comes from digitalization, along with graphic design and music. Himself he produced electronic music and became a techno DJ in legendary clubs. His work blends the design element with technology, graphic design with a painterly finish.
After a decade of constant work, Sofya Danilova got to the point where two-dimensional photography was just not enough to express everything she wanted to. As a seasoned photographer, she tried a hand in different styles, and in the end she started to create kaleidoscopes β images that can achieve the effect of space's enclosure and deeper immersion in the picture.
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.
Marcello Silvestreβs artworks narrate the city through the emotions, the smells, the flavors and the noises. He relates the indissoluble relationship between man and city sculpting bodies, legs and arms on which he lets towers and houses arise in a continuous flow. He creates dreamlike visions and interweaving of soft lines, triangles and edges.
Aristo VopΔnka explores the boundaries between photography, illustration, painting, and print. Using an experimental attitude towards these different media, new forms of expression take place. They are the beginning of a contemporary reinterpretation of expressionism which he has started to call experiential expressionism.
Ronit Keretβs recent work deals with the ecological crisis, the melting glaciers that have been changing due to the nature of human activity. The Installations that Keret creates are formed as a reaction to the given display space and the nature of the material she uses itself. Keret describes the transitions between good and evil in looking at human and nature relations and the gap between childhood dreams and catastrophic reality.
Every technical and philosophical facet of Lorette C. Luzajicβs art is committed to the application of mixed media, redefining the term to include concepts and ideas as well as tangible physical materials. This cross-genre pasticcio is born from and dependent on collage, which naturally experiments with subliminality, intercontextuality and the unexpected narratives that emerge from both playful and planned juxtapositions.
Sam Heydt is an American social practice and recycled media artist. Working across different media, Heydt presents an abstract proposition for a world on the periphery of history, one that not only appears haunted by the ghosts of the past but built on it. Her work has been shown in galleries, museums, art fairs, and film festivals worldwide.
Sudesh Prasad is an American artist. He began working as an artist in New York in 1986. His abstract works focus on the collaborative nature of the artist and the viewer. His Cool Empire II series is made of prints from European painting torn from books and overpainted, in an attempt to re-focus the notion of the viewer and their place in the nature of images, painting, and looking at art.
Bob LandstrΓΆm is an American artist who primarily works with crushed, pigmented volcanic rock. His abstract paintings, with their highly granulated texture and color combinations, only achieved through such a medium, reconsider our relationship with βprimitiveβ art by elevating the iconography of ancient languages, science, religions, and mysticism.
Nogueira de Barros is an award-winning artist, born in 1964 in Almada, Portugal. He regularly exhibits, having participated in prestigious collective exhibitions and several individual exhibitions. In 2001, he began exhibiting outside the country, highlighting the city of New York and London. In 2021 he was invited to be part of the international jury at the Torso International Art competition, India.
