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.
David Moješčík - MojDa is a Czech sculptor. His work is centred on figurative sculpture, the human body, and the female figure. Modelling in clay and with digital tools, he ultimately prioritises manual engagement with materials. . He draws inspiration from yoga philosophy with the concepts of non-violence and human-centeredness, as well as from Egyptian, ancient, and European classical sculpture.
Nataraj von Allmen is a painter based in Switzerland. Often taking photographic material as a starting point, he weaves together landscapes, mythological archetypes, Christian symbolism, and contemporary socio-political themes into complex paintings. Oscillating between figuration and abstraction, his work investigates transformation, collective memory, and the human condition.
Dylan Low is a Malaysian visual artist, creative designer, and educator whose multidisciplinary practice bridges contemporary design and fine art. His work investigates the fluid boundaries between emotion, memory, and artistic observation. Using digital paintings as his primary tools, he creates immersive visual narratives that challenge perceptions of emotions in art and design.
Veronika Fox is a contemporary Ukrainian artist based in New York City. work explores the space where emotion, imagination, and symbolism intersect. She paints intuitively and moving between abstraction, figuration, surrealism, and escapism, she creates expressive figures, dreamlike forms, and recurring robots that have become her visual signature.
Huichao Dong is an architectural designer focused on adaptive reuse, public-serving infrastructure, and socially responsive environments. Her latest project, CORA Community: Adaptive Reuse of a Grain Terminal reimagines a historic grain silo on the Brooklyn waterfront as affordable housing and cultural infrastructure for dancers, to support new forms of community, movement, and urban life.
Ayumi Kajiwara is a Japanese sculptor based in London/ Tokyo, working across textile, installation, and found materials. Her practice explores the sculptural potential of textiles, creating forms that exist between body, creature, and landscape. Working with both reclaimed materials and handcrafted textiles, she investigates material memory, vulnerability, and transformation.
Julie Machallova’s artistic exploration focuses on love, intimacy and female sexuality, asking whether true love can exist in a time of increasingly fragile relationships. Her paintings explore vulnerability, desire, introspection, loneliness, memories and the fleeting beauty of intimate moments. Her paintings embrace the imperfect body, sensuality and confidence.
Natalia Yuresko-Bilous is a Ukrainian artist living in Bulgaria. In her work, she places a strong emphasis on light as the central expressive element. Through it, she reveals the beauty of the surrounding world and invites the viewer to pause, truly observe what often goes unnoticed, sit in quiet reflection, and become aware of the fleeting nature of time.
Lubna Alayeli is a multidisciplinary artist and interior designer whose practice explores transformation, memory, and the relationship between natural forms and abstraction. Working primarily through painting, she investigates states of emergence and transition, allowing images to evolve through layered processes of observation, intuition, and material experimentation.
Lumi Liu is a New York–based designer and visual artist working at the intersection of art, medical visualisation, and public expression. Her practice explores consciousness, hidden biological systems, and the multiple dimensions of life that exist beyond human awareness. Lumi transforms these invisible biological architectures into poetic artistic experiences.
Bichen Liu is a Chinese lens-based visual artist working across fine art photography, black-and-white image-making, and experimental photographic practice. What Lies Beneath is a black-and-white photographic series focusing on exposed root systems and coastal residues, that transforms overlooked ecological fragments into visual records of support, erosion, and displacement.
Jialiang Guo is a Dallas-based furniture designer whose practice explores the relationship between furniture, material, space, and human interaction. Guo’s work ranges from sculptural furniture and material-driven objects to modular systems that engage with the way people inhabit and interact within contemporary spaces.
Haohao Huang is a Chinese visual artist based in Savannah, Georgia. Her practice explores memory, intimacy, displacement, and belonging, often examining the instability of memory and the ways personal experiences are translated and transformed through photographic processes. Her latest series, Lost in Translation, examines intimacy, memory, and the instability of identity.
Raya Mansoor is a contemporary artist from the Maldives whose practice moves between abstraction and expressionism, shaped by island life, personal memory, and observation. Working primarily with acrylic and oil on canvas, she builds layered compositions through colour, gesture, and forms drawn from the natural and everyday world around her.
Hannah Wu is a Taiwanese-born, New York–based multidisciplinary artist working across painting, olfactory art, sculpture, installation, photography, and moving image. Using acrylic, plaster, resin, fragrance, and found materials, her practice explores the relationship between scent, memory, and visual form, translating ephemeral experiences into tangible objects.
Aunia Kahn is a contemporary artist and curator working across gouache, acrylic, colored pencil, and dimensional mixed media, creating layered compositions that weave personal narrative with rich cultural symbolism. The originator of Contemporary Symbolist Folk, a lineage rooted in symbolic depth and personal mythos, Kahn draws from French Canadian, German, Polish and Scandinavian folklore.
Kfir Galatia-Azulay Darash is an architect, engineer, multidisciplinary designer, and artist. In his practice, architecture defines the framework, scale, rhythm, and light; interior design addresses the body and the human experience; product design approaches detail, material, and physical contact; and art allows an idea to move beyond function and become emotion, memory, and interpretation.
Lim Won Ji (Oneg) is a South Korean artist based in Chicago. Working across sculpture, installation, performance, and process-based experimentation, Lim investigates hypervigilance as a bodily condition shaped by anxiety, uncertainty, anticipation, and the desire for control, constructing unstable situations in which order is continually negotiated through gravity, time, repetition, and chance.
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.
