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.
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.
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.
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.
Luna Xue is a versatile visual artist whose practice spans painting, installation, 3D art, and bookmaking. With a background in illustration and extensive experience in the arts, her work explores themes of female identity, intergenerational trauma in Asian families, and sexual violence, blending traditional techniques with contemporary perspectives.
Kan Pitichaichan is a Thai-Japanese artist currently studying Fine Art at Parsons School of Design. Initially working mainly with painting, Kan used the medium to explore personal themes connected to culture, place, and memory. Kan is expanding his practice beyond painting and exploring new forms such as mixed media and installation.
Canadian artist Narmin Kassam creates art as a meditative and healing practice, exploring themes of women's empowerment, gender equality, and cultural diversity. Her unique mixed-media style combines paint and decorative paper on wood panels. Through this layered technique, she expresses feminine strength, inclusion, and the richness of cultural identity.
Tinmin is a contemporary abstract artist known for pioneering an innovative technique that uses a lint roller to extract and manipulate fibres from vintage garments and fibrous materials. He transforms these elements into vibrant, textured compositions on paper, breathing new purpose and life into them. His work is characterised by striking abstract imagery, rich in colour and depth.
As a transgender male artist, Yu explores themes of identity, transformation, and the intersection of personal and societal narratives through his innovative art practice. Drawing deeply from his lived experiences, he creates works that reflect on transgender life, memory, and the journey of self-reflection. His art spans a variety of mediums, seamlessly incorporating symbolic images.
Snow Dollkinson's artwork delves into the tension between the personal and intimate and the raw and exposed. Whether portraying the natural world or abstract concepts, Snow's paintings highlight the simplicity of everyday life, capturing moments that speak to the essence of human experience. Her paintings showcase the remarkable power of simplicity.
Vivian Cavalieri is a visual artist based in Chincoteague Island, Virginia. Her three-dimensional miniature scenes prompt conversations on a range of global issues, including immigration and social justice. Her work has appeared in numerous exhibitions in the US and abroad, including London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, and Athens.
Haley King, also known by their artist name GRVNGE LESTAT, is a Chicago-based LGBTQ+ mixed media artist who primarily uses illustrative methods to construct their body of work. They combine that with digitally manipulating their own photography to achieve an effort to create their artistic world, which houses themes of hauntingly provoking atmospheres.
As an artist and designer at the dynamic intersection of art and sustainability, Shuyi Qi's work is deeply committed to unraveling the intricate relationship between human existence and ecological preservation. In her practice, she employs a fusion of visual art and design to construct narratives that provoke thought and foster a heightened awareness of sustainability.
Andrea Kurtz is an illustrator and artist based in Graz. She delves into her own emotions and those of individuals, encapsulating feelings, fears, desires, and, above all, (un)happiness, which she expresses forms to make them tangible. Currently, she is experimenting with a diverse array of materials to create different structures.
Luciano Caggianello, born in Siena in 1959, is an Italian artist and designer, currently based in Turin. His work identifies the artistic objective of a basic conceptual thematic project and of experimentation inserted between concrete "poverty" and digital work, revealing much more relevant to parameters and concepts of presentation than of representation.
Napoleon M. Haboc is a quinquagenarian industrial product design freelancer and an emerging contemporary artist based in Qingxi Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, China. He has two main mediums in his art: colored textured acrylic paint on the mat board and a monochromatic crosshatched bamboo fine debris art, respectively. A combination of nature and intention is the two phases in his artistic approach to his colored art medium.
Qixin Chen was born in 2001 and raised in Shenzhen, Guangdong. Through mixed media and installation, she focuses on the existential anxiety arising from transitional society and culture, which threaten the fundamental values and state of being of individuals in a pervasive and widespread manner. She believes that this painful emotional experience creates a collective emptiness, isolation, and fear.
Hwang Sung Mi is a Korean visual artist. She received a B.F.A in Printmaking from the Hong-Ik University, in Seoul, South Korea. In her career, she has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in South Korea, Italy, and Greece, starting in 2008. Her work has been published internationally, in the press, and in artists' books. She works with plastic bags and laces to create flowers.
Amélie Dickerson was born in Congo and raised in the South of France. She came of age as an artist in Paris while pursuing a degree in Fashion Design. Life brought her to the United States. She paints to bring light to people. Bold lines and vibrant colors collide in her work to convey emotion - whether she is capturing the hidden spirit in a portrait or pure, raw feeling in an abstract.
