Vierdamme is the artistic duo of Marleen Vandamme and Dennis Vieren, a portmanteau that embodies the fusion of their distinct creative voices, exploring the depths of identity, emotion, and connection. Their work is deeply personal, reflecting an ongoing artistic conversation between two distinct yet harmonized perspectives.
Stephan Joseph Ravare Jr. transcends the title of mere artist. His work embodies the role of a storyteller, channelling ideas, confronting and breaking barriers, and honouring his Louisiana Creole heritage through his art. Viewing art as a catalyst for transformation and acceptance, Stephan uses culture and differences to not only cope with mental health but to inspire solace and creativity.
Roxana Casillas is a sculptor, born in Mexico City in 1964. Her work aims to celebrate the enigmatic aspects of femininity, delving into her own psyche as both the creator and the subject while offering viewers profound insights into the complexities of existence and the journey of self-discovery. Working primarily with contemporary sculpture, Roxana finds joy in the tangible and transformative nature of this medium.
Margherita’s work explores identity, emotion, and the feminine experience through abstraction and sound. Guided by instinct and rhythm, she moves fluidly between painting and music, creating spaces where colour and tone echo one another. Through her work, she searches for harmony between the visible and the audible, inviting viewers to pause, listen, and connect with their own emotional landscape.
In this interview, collector Francesca de Marco introduces Italian artist Yuri (Paolo Ornelli). lives in a tuff cavern in near-complete solitude, accompanied only by a mare and by the breathing of the seasons. Here, Yuri has shaped his personal aesthetics of resistance and impermanence. His works are fragments of the wall that encloses him, pulled out, carved out, wrested from his own shelter.
Rui Yang is a multidisciplinary artist and CG generalist based in New York. His work explores post-digital identity, cultural hybridity, contemporary events, and the reimagining of contemporary mythologies. With a practice in both industry and fine art, Rui’s expertise allows him to work fluidly across tools and platforms, creating artworks that blur the boundaries between media and narrative.
Ye (Yolanda) Tian is a senior product and UX Designer whose work blends technology, visual storytelling, and problem-solving. With over five years of experience across healthcare, AI-driven products, and consumer platforms, she creates digital interfaces that simplify complexity and aim to make a social impact. Through her work, she invites users to explore, reflect, and engage deeply with information.
Albert Deak is a UK-based visual artist. He bridges traditional ceramic techniques with digital abstraction and acrylic painting on canvas. He has participated in numerous exhibitions, salons, and international art festivals. His current focus lies in authentic digital art and acrylic painting on canvas, while continuing to expand his symbolic archive and historical projects.
Zahira Barneto is a Spanish-American visual artist whose work explores spirituality, consciousness, and the unseen dimensions of existence. Her ongoing series, Frequencies, translates transmissions into matter, creating portals that bridge spirit and form. Each oil-on-canvas piece emerges through a slow, intuitive process uniting ancient techniques with visionary depth.
Kevin J. Blade is an innovative artist and creative technologist from Guayaquil, Ecuador, whose work lives at the dynamic intersection of music, technology, and social impact. Driven by an extraordinary personal resilience, Kevin J. Blade's career has been defined by creating the impossible and making complex technology beautifully accessible.
Indra Persad Milowe, an internationally acclaimed artist accredited by the UNOFEX (Union of Excellence), has journeyed through life with a passion for art that has defined her path and captivated audiences globally. Born with an innate talent and a deep appreciation for the natural world, Indra's work reflects her rich cultural heritage and the vibrant stories of her homeland, Trinidad and Tobago.
Ivan Pili is a hyperrealist painter whose work focuses on the human figure and the intimate atmospheres that arise in unspoken moments. Working from his studio in Sardinia, Pili continues to pursue a painterly research dedicated to minimal gestures, controlled chiaroscuro, and the slow construction of emotional tension, elements that belong as much to the portrayed figure.
Hansa Sethi is a contemporary Indian artist whose practice centres on the inner landscapes of memory, emotion, and silence. Working primarily with abstraction, she builds her compositions through layered textures, shifting tones, and symbolic forms that echo the complexities of lived experience. Sethi’s paintings navigate the subtle space between pain and clarity, vulnerability and resilience.
Eva Oleandr is a UK/Russia-based emerging artist whose work serves as a portal to a reality bent through the prism of her imagination, creating new perspectives and narratives that invite viewers to question the conventional. Inspired by a profound love for nature and a deep engagement with philosophical concepts, Eva’s surreal compositions are imbued with a mythical and symbolic resonance.
Tina Lin is an artist, creator, director, photographer, and booking agent. In 2004, she founded a booking agency. Currently, her agency represents over 30 artists. In 2021, she released her personal collection of paintings, videos, directorial work, and visual artworks on her website and Instagram. In 2024, she joined forces with two other artists to establish The Weirds Plus.
Anastasia Kolgan (b. 1992, Luhansk, Ukraine) is a contemporary visual artist working primarily in watercolour, oil, and mixed media, currently based in Wrocław, Poland. Her practice merges contemporary art with rich layers of symbolism and a touch of surrealism, turning personal experiences into universal narratives of strength, vulnerability, and resilience.
Constantina Scapetoulia is an artist, theorist and educator working with pictures and mainly text-based art projects. She primarily focuses on the role of language and new knowledge through science and technology in the perception of reality. Her work is interdisciplinary, combining text and image to explore and highlight issues of language visibility.
Darren Rea is a Cree-Metis painter and poet based in Calgary, Canada, working and playing on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy. His practice is rooted in a deep spiritual connection to nature, shaped by his upbringing near the Rocky Mountains and years of personal exploration through ceremony, meditation, and indigenous teachings.
Maurizio D'Andrea is an Italian painter. His painting is rooted in informal abstraction, yet over time, he felt the need to move beyond it. Today he lives in Alba, in Piedmont, where he has his studio, which he has named Orizzonti Impossibili, a space that is both refuge and forge, where he continues to question the unknown, to cross the thresholds of the visible.
JoKu is a self-taught artist who was born in Switzerland in 1988. Her art invites viewers to drift off into a fairy-tale world and to slip into the role of a detective, making out the reused materials and objects she utilised to give her creatures their inimitable look. At the same time, she encourages viewers to reflect on their own consumer behaviour and its impact on today's values.
Anna Kirsanova is a Russian architect and visual artist. Utilising ink and traditional Chinese brushes, she captures the spontaneity and fluidity of movement. The free brushstrokes allow her to convey the essence of plants without rigid contours, focusing instead on their dynamic transformations under environmental pressures.
