Helena Eribenne, a London-born multimedia artist of Nigerian descent, works across film, photography, performance art, theatre, installation, and music. Her work critiques post-colonialism, using 19th-century tools like the magic lantern and panorama to challenge colonial narratives embedded in the collective unconscious.
INTERVIEW | Xinyi Qin
Xinyi Qin is a Chinese artist currently based in Hong Kong. In Xinyi's paintings, she relies on her intuition to select different types of plants as her subjects - they are tiny, peculiar, faded, blooming, or rotten. She focuses more on their temperament, allowing the diversity of plants to unfold naturally without limitations or definitions.
INTERVIEW | Julia Lehmann
Julia Lehmann is a philosopher, writer, translator, and artist whose practice is deeply intertwined with her explorations of language, humanity, and the natural world. Exploring the boundary between text and image, the parts then form a new whole, fragments of a female voice. The typewriter is the tool to hide, to love, to seek, to find, to hope, to think.
INTERVIEW | Ellen De
Ellen De is a visual artist who uses photography as her primary medium to explore the intersections of architecture, abstraction, and social critique. Her work reimagines brutalist structures as sculptural forms, detaching them from their historical and ideological contexts. By emphasizing form over function, Ellen's photographs transform iconic architectural symbols into evocative remnants of unrealized utopias.
INTERVIEW | Giulia Guasta Guarnaccia
Giulia Guasta Guarnaccia is a digital artist and an intersectional activist; she also considers herself an interdisciplinary researcher and a data archaeologist. In her work, she mixes social engagement with varied artistic practices, always linked to ethical issues; in her opinion, there's a strong need to deconstruct ourselves going through privileges and marginalities.
INTERVIEW | Karim Bassegoda - Keight
Keight is a multidisciplinary artist who explores a variety of experiments and mediums, ranging from “traditional” art to immersive installations and digital works. Equal parts artist and designer, and both conceptual and expressionist, Keight takes the viewer on a visual journey through his unique language, peppered with references and symbolic pictograms that circumscribe his abundant universe.
INTERVIEW | YeeJae Kim
Yeejae Kim is an artist whose interdisciplinary work spans performance, sculpture, video, and installation, using vulnerability to challenge the expectations and ideals imposed by beauty standards. Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, she draws from her cultural background and personal experiences to engage with societal norms. She is currently based in Long Island City, NY.
INTERVIEW | Weizhi Cao
Weizhi Cao, a Chinese artist, has made a name for himself in digital art, specializing in AI-generated content (AIGC). By merging traditional techniques with cutting-edge AI technology, he creates a unique artistic style that has gained international recognition. His works have been showcased in various exhibitions and have won multiple awards in international art competitions and film festivals.
INTERVIEW | Yulun Liu
Yulun Liu is an architect and digital artist based in Chicago whose work explores the intricate relationship between nature, architecture, and human well-being. Inspired by the resilience of abandoned landscapes and the therapeutic potential of natural environments, her practice focuses on creating immersive experiences that blur the boundaries between art and architecture.
INTERVIEW | Klara Lenhard
Klara is a German filmmaker and graphic designer now based in Berlin. She works in mixed media, including video and sound design, photography, and inclusive design. Klara also engages in experimental arts with the focus on conceptual emotional design. She has been curiously exploring how art makes disconnections tangible.
INTERVIEW | Pei-Yao Chang
Pei-Yao Chang is a Taiwan-born media artist and researcher currently working between London and Taiwan. Her practice explores space(s) and the implications of embodied experiences, drawing from both the gravitational pull of the land and the weightless journey of freediving. Fascinated by sensation, movement, and perception, she investigates the concept of embodied cognition.
INTERVIEW | Boris Osipau
Boris is a self-taught photographer originally from Minsk, Belarus, now based in Philadelphia. He combines his technical knowledge and creative vision to produce compelling images that resonate emotionally. His project, Fierce, examines the paradox of cuteness aggression, a psychological phenomenon where overwhelming feelings of adoration for something provoke an intense response.
INTERVIEW | Bîstyek
Bîstyek is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in painting, sculpture, and drawing. Renowned for his bold use of color and expressive lines, he blends elements of graffiti, street art, and abstraction while also creating figurative paintings on various surfaces and 3D wood sculptures. His work primarily reflects on his personal journey, from his marginalized upbringing in Syria to Canada.
INTERVIEW | Ruslana Nosak
Ruslana Nosak's work reflects a lifelong journey through different places, each of which has shaped and expanded her artistic vision. Over the years, she's explored a range of mediums, embracing each for its unique, expressive qualities. Her work depicts the psychological and cultural complexities faced by individuals adapting to new countries and identities.
INTERVIEW | Mingu Kang
Kang Mingu is a filmmaker, media artist, and writer based in South Korea. His works often depict vulnerable figures within society, exploring themes such as redevelopment, technological transformation, and mythology while emphasizing a warm perspective and hope for the marginalized. Through these narratives, he reflects his desire for comfort and warmth in both his own life and the society.
INTERVIEW | Wenqing Gu
Wenqing Gu is a Baltimore-based digital illustrator originally from Huai’an, China. Her art serves as a bridge between cultures, drawing from her experiences in both China and the United States to explore universal emotions. Her illustrations are imbued with a sense of simplicity and childlike wonder, reflecting her belief in the power of art to bring joy and healing.
INTERVIEW | Aylal Heydarova
Aylal Heydarova is an emerging Azerbaijani painter whose works span a variety of artistic styles and creative techniques, including pointillism, modernism, and abstract. Launched in April 2024, the #SAVINGBUTTERFLIES project celebrates transformation and resilience, reflecting the journeys of both butterflies and migrants.
INTERVIEW | Neryhs Wo
Neryhs Wo is an emerging independent artist from Hong Kong. Her practice explores the contradiction of hoping to be found and understood but doubting the existence of total understanding between minds. She expresses this through various media such as poetry, paintings, illustrations, public installations, and performances. Neryhs sees her art practice to be a form of unconditional love she gives to life.
INTERVIEW | Pavel Bulva
Pavel Bulva, born in 1991 and currently based in Minsk, is an artist whose work serves as a profound exploration of religious and philosophical themes, offering reflection on the vices and societal challenges prevalent in an era of mass consumption and archetypal narratives. His art delves into the depths of existential loneliness and immortality, provoking thought and contemplation on the human condition.
INTERVIEW | Evelyne Chevallier
Evelyne Chevallier's photo collages started with graffiti. As the amount of graffiti in the collages was reduced, more and more photos of exceptional Argentinian and Chilean landscapes appeared, and most of the time, they were also manipulated. A resume of this work could be described as a permanent juxtaposition of two extremes: full and empty, talkative and silent, urban and nature.