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.
Long Phi Tran (b. 1989) is a Vietnamese ink painter based in Ho Chi Minh City. Working with traditional East Asian ink on paper, he develops a restrained monochrome language that examines scale, solitude, and the fragile position of the individual within systems of power. His practice merges material discipline with conceptual inquiry, allowing emptiness and contrast to function as psychological and structural tension.
Anastasiya Kao is a contemporary artist working in a unique technique that combines crystal, mirror, glass, and resin. Through her works, she explores themes of human boundaries, inner strength, and transformation, turning light and reflection into metaphors of consciousness and rebirth. Each of Anastasiya’s creations is a dialogue between fragility and resilience, destruction and regeneration.
Lachlan Howard is a multi-media sculptor and photographer from Ocracoke, North Carolina. His work examines the uncanny and the uncomfortable and how we can benefit from accepting and embracing discomfort. He is currently a Sculpture and Expanded Media major at the Cleveland Institute of Art, a recipient of the Gund scholarship, and has previously been a Teacher’s Assistant for various programs.
Artem Mayer (b. 1989) is a guitar maker and contemporary artist based in Moscow, Russia. His work sits between luthiery and contemporary art, and his practice is guided by a simple principle: he makes what he personally wants to make and what gives him genuine enjoyment. If the result resonates with others, that is a welcome outcome, but not the starting point.
Julian Newme is a contemporary visual artist based in Vigo, Spain. His practice spans painting, digital art, printmaking, and hybrid visual formats, often incorporating text and image-based elements. Working across physical and digital media, his work reflects an ongoing engagement with contemporary visual culture and the emotional dimensions of experience.
João Sobreira is a visual artist whose practice interrogates the limits of painting by expanding it into processes of sound, performativity, and phenomenological research. Operating between material gesture and experiential perception, his work addresses notions of authorship, self-erasure, and the role of chance as a generative force.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Elena Sergeevna Popova (b. 1982, Moscow) is a visual artist living and working in Cyprus. For her, painting is her way of slowing down time and holding on to what would otherwise be lost. She finds inspiration in the sea, in music and dance, and in the fragile emotions that pass quickly in human life. Her works carry a sense of stillness, a quiet space where the viewer can stop and simply feel.
Krystyna Vinogorodska is a European artist and a graduate of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. Her work bridges classical training with experimental forms of contemporary art. She creates spaces where time dissolves, placing the viewer in a threshold between past and future, between what has been forgotten and what is yet to come.
Kamila Hyo’s artistic practice is rooted in oil painting and explores the interplay of space, light, and colour. Her creative process is not a linear act of execution, but a slow unfolding, a shaping and transformation of the subject over time. Each motif undergoes a silent metamorphosis while remaining anchored in its essential nature, as if suspended in a timeless moment.
Yana Jigsaw is an interdisciplinary artist based in Nicosia, Cyprus. Yana's art becomes a poignant reflection of her extraordinary life experiences, from her devout upbringing to her profound love for technology and programming. Her creations stand as a testament to the transformative power of creativity, serving as a source of healing, inspiration, and metamorphosis.
Born in Cameroon and raised in Lebanon during the civil war of 1975, Katia Aoun Hage moved to the United States, where she resides with her husband and three children. Her life is filled with music, poetry, writing, translation, painting, and running a publishing company, Elyssar Press, in Redlands. Katia loves to collaborate with artists and writers.
