Lohrasb Bayat (b. 1990, Tehran, Iran) is a self-taught artist based in Tehran. His practice delves into the dynamics of power, uncertainty, and resilience within socio-political and psychological landscapes. Working primarily with painting, Bayat explores the tension between vulnerability and defiance, often through figures caught in ambiguous or constrained situations.
Yulin Peng is the curator and director of Galerie de Nuage, a contemporary art gallery and cultural platform operating between New York and Hong Kong. A licensed architect with a Master of Architecture from Columbia University, her practice spans curation, design, and economic research. Her work bridges the creative and the quantitative, contributing to broader questions of how culture is shaped.
Svetlana Bakhareva is a visionary visual artist and performer, that lives and works in Barcelona. Key directions in her practice include embodied experience, the perception of environment as a living space, and engagement with the more-than-human. These vectors are unified through an exploration of experiences that extend beyond purely material perception.
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.
Yi Wang is a licensed architect based in New York and the founder of Studio Yione, recognised for its innovative engagement with space, materiality, and historical context. Yi explores how design can bridge collective memories and visions, integrating art, technology, and sustainability to shape public perception and urban experience. Her latest jewelry series is titled Body-as-Site.
Hao Wu is a designer and artist with a background spanning architecture and interior design. Design is not only Hao Wu’s career but also his lifestyle. As a designer, he resists rigid definitions, choosing instead to explore whatever inspires him. When he draws through the lens of an interior designer, he reconstructs images in his mind and creates a dreamlike world shaped by imagination.
Shu Wang is an internationally renowned interdisciplinary artist specializing in jewelry design and wearable sculpture. Her practice centers on the body as a site where emotion, structure, and social tension converge. Through interaction, movement, and physical proximity, she investigates how objects function as living media, activating sensory experience, mediating social expectations, and generating shared perception between wearer and viewer.
Mahshid Gorjian is an independent fine artist and digital visual practitioner based in the United States. Her practice spans fine arts, digital visual production, and experimental media, with a focus on public-interest cultural dissemination and the representation of diverse communities. She works across digital painting, mixed media, and technologically mediated visual forms.
Yuko Kokubun explores the concept of the “Earth Theater,” transforming notions of society, life, space-time, and internal changes in the human mind and body into theatrical interpretations expressed through her works. In recent years, she has primarily employed the technique of collage, meticulously cutting elements derived from living beings and human cultural design.
Stéphanie Navarro, operating under the pseudonym TANI TELAS, is a major figure in contemporary progressive abstraction. Rooted in Corsica with French and Spanish heritage, Navarro draws profound inspiration from the Mediterranean, which remains the vibrant, thematic heart of her practice. Her work is defined by a rigorous and disciplined process that seeks constant emancipation from conventions.
Born in Lisboa and shaped by a global curiosity, Marta Ornelas Monteiro is an architect turned multidisciplinary artist whose creative journey is grounded in a profound dialogue with nature. Each piece becomes a living testimony to nature's resilience, memory, and transformation. Her latest work, Layers of Life, Layers of Body, Layers of Nature’s Reality, explores the unseen strata of existence.
Randong Yu's work investigates the tension between fragility and assurance, and how belief, reliance, and ontological security surface through material presence. As thresholds and limitations grow porous, his practice illuminates the friction between play, logic, and emotion, tracing the fragile architectures that hold tangible perception and intangible faith together.
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.
