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.
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.
Saliha Hanif is a Dubai-based visual artist of Pakistani origin, specialising in contemporary and calligraphic art. She is recognised for her unique fusion of traditional Arabic calligraphy with modern abstract forms. Her practice emphasises spirituality, handmade techniques, and environmental consciousness, reflecting a deep commitment to art as a mindful and sacred experience.
Dalia Raduca, born in 2000 in Romania, is a contemporary abstract artist based in Barcelona. She has always been drawn to the artistic side of the world; the details, the textures, the beauty in things. She channels that energy into her art, aiming to transmit feeling rather than perfection or explanation. She wants people to connect with the raw, instinctive energy behind each piece.
Sunny Ko is an artist whose creative style is infused with imagination, inspiration, and spontaneous ideas. She loves to experience her vitality, inspiration, joy, and magic through her creations. Her utopian world is a place her soul deeply longs for, a perfect paradise filled with freedom, release, inner fulfilment, and harmony with nature. Through her art, she creates infinite possibilities.
Nat Lap is an artist and trained director originally from Belarus. Her practice explores mental states through photography, scanning, and AI-driven collage, transforming internal tension into tangible, reflective objects. At the heart of her work lies a fascination with the impermanence of life, its constant motion, and final dissolution, understood not as an end, but as a return to the cycles.
Sahasa is a Dutch, European artist who primarily works in sculpture and draws inspiration from the natural world, with a particular focus on ocean and coral reef ecosystems. Sahasa's interest in octopuses began around 2017, and since then, they have continued to explore and expand upon this subject through a variety of materials and techniques.
Yota Yamaguchi was born and still lives in Kobe City, Japan. Yota Yamaguchi wants to express his thought that there is no superiority or inferiority among races and cultures, and that diversity brings colour to the world, which is why it is important to recognise differences and respect each other through the works he produced.
Curated by Kulturnest co-founder & CEO Dr. Pamela Chrabieh, Aftermaths gathers 27 local and international creatives. The exhibition explores what follows traumas, collapse, or any experience one undergoes, whether positive, negative, or ambiguous; through war, displacement, climate crisis, identity shifts, or intimate ruptures.
Darious Shan is a media artist and designer working across speculative design, interactive media, and moving image. Darious Shan’s artistic practice investigates how objects, technologies, and narratives can carry emotional weight across time and imagined futures. Her work often positions design as both a protective medium and a poetic form of misinterpretation.
Natalia Shamrai (Kolpakova) is an award-winning graphic artist and designer from Kyiv, Ukraine, specialising in art and fashion. Now based in Falmouth, UK, she creates intricate graphic designs digitally printed on silk, transforming them into both wearable accessories and interior art pieces. Her work, rich in narrative and symbolism, bridges the gap between fine art and fashion.
Ningrui is a transmedia artist working in and across the creative fields of film, music, performance, dance and spoken word. Her work explores speculative narratives and the unknown, drawing on both Chinese cultural frameworks and contemporary sound art. Her recent project, Film of Changes, investigates the aesthetics, philosophy and ethics of a traditional Chinese form of cleromancy, I Ching.
Božica Rakić is a Serbia-based visual artist whose practice merges surrealism and hyperrealism through a strictly monochromatic palette. Her work does not narrate; it interrupts. Each drawing becomes less an image and more an event, an encounter where silence is louder than words, and shadow speaks more truth than light.
