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.
Topography of Collapse, Ronit Keret’s first solo exhibition in Helsinki, brings together site-specific installations, drawings, and video in a body of work shaped by erosion, fracture, and environmental precarity. The exhibition develops out of Keret’s long-standing preoccupation with climate change, and more specifically with melting glaciers and ecological fragility.
Carmen Vornicelu is a Romanian artist working across visual systems, text, sound, spatial situations, and participatory formats. Her current research framework, Pre-Economic Architecture, investigates the conditions that precede the formation of economic, institutional, or political value, examining the criteria that shape what can become relevant.
Brooklyn-Born Allan Gorman is a contemporary fine artist based in Jersey City, NJ, with a unique artistic vision cultivated by a distinguished commercial career that helped refine a sense of aesthetics and unwavering commitment to excellence that continues to define his artistic process to this day. His latest series of paintings is titled Imaginary Spaces.
Yidan Chen is a visual artist whose practice moves between installation, sculpture, experimental film, and olfactory media. She explores the cultural dissonance and perceptual shifts that arise in cross-cultural life. Her practice investigates how identity is shaped and unsettled through sensory cues, inherited symbols, and the subtle social expectations placed on Asian bodies in Western contexts.
Xinyue Zhang is a multi-media artist. Born in northern China, her practice explores the boundary between figuration and abstraction, capturing the tremors overlooked in daily life, the path of light through dust, the traces of time on surfaces. Her artworks achieve balance through contrast, much like life, affirming its existence through decay, seeking that fleeting “in-between.”
Ashleigh Hobbs, known by her artist name Arnika (b. Australia), is a multidisciplinary artist and musician working primarily through sound and performance, expanded through self-portraiture and installation. Her practice explores femininity, bodily autonomy, and the ways internalised ideals shape the female body and psyche.
Siqi Fan is a Los Angeles–based artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, video installation, performance, and photography. Drawing inspiration from food culture, hospitality, and everyday encounters, her work reflects on migration, labor, memory, and the ways people create a sense of belonging, focusing on overlooked stories and forms of care embedded within ordinary spaces.
Wei Wu is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice reimagines civic experience through spatial storytelling in the public domain. Working across projection, robotics, AI, augmented reality, and interactive systems, she creates large-scale experiences shaped by memory, place, participation, and ritual. Her work explores how emerging technologies can transform the ways people perceive public life.
Karolina Bergin is a Polish artist whose work focuses on emotional, fashion-inspired portraiture. Using mixed media, she has developed a tactile, layered style where detailed, expressive faces collide with raw textures, intuitive marks, and unfinished forms. She primarily works with traditional media, valuing the unique qualities of paper, texture, and physical mark-making.
Zengjie Chai is an interdisciplinary artist from Hangzhou, China, currently based in Los Angeles. Working autobiographically through queer autotheory, he explores elements of his lived experience from multiple perspectives. Through engaging with different media, his work addresses and examines the intersection between his personal narrative and the sociological context as a queer diasporic body.
Yuhan Gu is a New York–based industrial designer whose work explores the intersection of function, emotion, and sculptural form. TACTO reflects Gu’s interest in the emotional relationship between people and the objects they keep close in their daily workspace. Designed as a cactus-shaped memo holder, the project transforms a familiar natural form into a playful and functional desktop object.
Boris Popoff is a textile artist and designer based in Barcelona. His work merges traditional weaving with sustainable material research. He is the creator of PETEXTILE, a project that transforms post-consumer PET plastic into woven textiles. His practice bridges craft and experimentation, positioning weaving as a cultural heritage and a contemporary investigation. He has exhibited and collaborated across art, design, and material research.
Katya Shkolnik (b. USSR; lives and works in Milan) is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, sound, and installation. Her work explores perception, time, and the unseen structures that shape reality. A background in nuclear physics informs her interest in the relationship between the known and the unknown, and in how invisible forces can become sensory experience.
Shingo Ohta is a Japanese photographic artist based in Toyooka, Hyogo, near the Sea of Japan. After a long career in business and regional revitalization, he turned to photography as a primary artistic practice, developing an ongoing body of work centered on the sea as a living, volatile, and almost sacred force. His images transform waves, spray, light, and weather into abstract forms.
João Prosperi is a Brazilian editor and visual artist based in Los Angeles. His work is driven by an interest in images and the technologies used to create them. Drawing from a background in editing, photography, and post-production, he often works across different tools and formats, combining digital and analogue processes in search of unexpected visual results.
Samuel Perry is a self-taught abstract artist based in San Diego, California. Known for his large-scale works on unprimed canvas, his practice explores the tensions between structure and spontaneity, control and disorder. His work is held in luxury hotels and private collections throughout the United States and represented by galleries across California.
Wallace Woo is a Paris-based contemporary artist and the founder of Stalactite Aesthetics. His work established the movement of Geological Abstractionism, a philosophical inquiry into the dimension of time and material sedimentation. His work explores the intersection of gravity, time, and the silent breath of the earth. The act of painting is not decorative for him, it is an act of deposition.
Kinga Owczennikow is a visual artist working with photography who navigates the space between documentary observation and conceptual inquiry. Her work is often concerned with the conceptual role of internal frames within her photographs, and their profound impact on human perception and understanding. She also presents imagery of natural and urban scenes in seeming harmonious coexistence.
Chieh-Lin Wu is a London-based image maker working primarily with still life and the human body. With a background in fashion photography, her practice focuses on quiet observation and the subtle details of everyday forms. The series Tender Tension explores the visual and tactile relationship between the human body and natural forms, focusing on moments where their boundaries begin to blur.
Harshil Upadhyay is a fine art photographer and visual artist whose practice explores the delicate space between presence and absence. Influenced by both documentary realism and poetic abstraction, his work captures fleeting moments of solitary figures, transient encounters, and landscapes suspended in time, through the use of motion blur, muted tones, and selective colours.
