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.
Aishwarya Krishnan is a Bangalore-based painter and illustrator with roots in Kerala. Her works primarily revolve around scenes from her time growing up in India, often paying homage to her cultural heritage and family history. Most painted scenes are from nod to the artist’s family background as well. Coming from a long lineage of painters, including Raja Ravi Varma, she intends to bring an impressionist take to Indian scenes.
Natalia Pechenkina is an interior painting artist from Russia. She employs a diverse range of contemporary techniques in her work, such as bar-relief, sculptural and volumetric painting, mirrors, FluidArt, and epoxy resin. Natalia's art draws heavily from the natural shades of her region, with the foundational colors mirroring the scenic landscapes of Siberia.
Darío Berterreche is a visual artist and painter from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He sees his practice as an act of faith, of absolute surrender, towards an infinite becoming. Starting from the unexpected and from the movement that every improvisation proposes, the works are generated, giving rise to whatever chance determines. His inspiration comes from the natural environment that surrounds him.
Viktoria Adkozalova is a Ukrainian artist. Her creations traverse the enigmatic realms of the Universe, capturing the essence of existence and the relentless march of time. Drawing parallels with the String Theory, her works postulate that the tiniest of particles – the strings resonate to sculpt our cosmos. Every brushstroke seeks to unravel a world of emotions, attempting to bridge the chasm between the artwork and the beholder's soul.
Lavia (Yanzi) Lin (b.1995) is a Berlin-based abstract artist and live painting performer from Shanghai, China. Lavia’s art invites the viewers to enter an imaginary dream-like world with visual sounds and harmonious colours. She takes strong conceptual references from music and sounds to create expressive abstract soundscapes. Her works are often inspired by and moved by the imagined organic shapes and shifting sounds of jazz.
Carmen Aztibia is an Argentinian artist, based in Buenos Aires. As an active walker, she observes her surroundings, aware of the vitality that each city has today, from which she takes references. The landscape is also a strong trigger in her poetics. Tightening the boundaries between the self-referential and the collective, her work seeks to reflect on being in society, on exchange as human beings, and on how we collectively inhabit geography.
Antonia-Maria Platzer is a Italian multi-disciplinary artist and designer currently based in Berlin. The main interest within their practice involves creating a cosmos of their own in which they can manifest a colorful safe haven for their inner child or, as they like to call it, a ‘revolution for softies’, based on real-life experiences as well as research-based symbologies, theories, and storytelling from around the world.
Pamela Scherson (1994, Mexico City), AKA La Changa Pachanga, is a tattoo artist and street artist based in Mexico City. In her artistic practice, La Changa is consistently drawn to capturing aspects of pop culture through the lens of her inner child's ignorant perspective. She prioritizes spontaneity and embraces intentional mistakes, aiming to shed light on the unconventional beauty found within ignorance.
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.
Olumide Egunlae is a painter and art educator based in Banjul, The Gambia, West Africa, whose works celebrate and treasure his African traditions, backgrounds, values, and culture. He focuses his paintings on the local eccentric and ordinary rites of his people and portrays what his ancestors have built for average African communities. He finds the beauty in them and translates them into his colorful and beautiful paintings.
Nataliia Kutykhina is a painter, originally from Ukraine. In her work, the author explores the world around her, events, history, science, and philosophy; all facets of our universe are interesting. Every day she discovers something new in art. There are no boundaries in creativity, and each creation conveys not only the world of the artist but is also an integral part of our world, like a grain of sand is part of a vast desert.
Paulette Gutierrez’s work can be identified by intricate, bold-colored organic shapes. Gutierrez is a Mexican American artist born and raised outside of Detroit, Michigan. Gutierrez is interested in using the organic material she encounters while studying biology as inspiration for her work. The intricacy of organic materials and organisms, when looked at closely, serves as the substance to abstract.
Alberto Ballocca (b. 1993 - Turin, Northern Italy) is a contemporary artist whose background is linked to sensitive factors. Alberto works with acrylics, self-made natural pigments, sprays, oil pastels, oil, and more unconventional mediums and supports, both in painting, sculptures, drawing, and private or public wall paintings, continually seeking a bridge between the abstract and the figurative approaches.
The pop-art fine artist Silke Wolff opens a secret, supernatural universe with her metaphysical graphics.Through her widened consciousness, which she has been developing for 20 years of daily meditative practice, she is able to perceive this sphere of existence. Such unique situations she catches with oil pastel drawings in sketchbooks. From these ideas, her series arise, which she creates as digital collages and complete with texts.
Lucell Larawan is an acclaimed Filipino artist. The artist has evolved from a neo-pointillist approach to a hybrid style and recently incorporated mercerized cotton strings due to their nuanced meaning of connectivity and rootedness.Overall, Lucell’s art reflects his journey to find freedom and a sense of belonging while exploring themes that resonate with many individuals.
Ja is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles whose work portrays raw emotion and contemplation through the human form. Inspired by the connection between emotions and body movement, her work captures the complexity of the human experience. Through the use of abstract figurative compositions, Ja's use of the body as a communicative vessel enables viewers to gain insight into her inner world.
Hannah Jones is a Berlin-based artist who grew up in Swansea, Wales. She primarily works with acrylics and inks on canvas and paper. She is inspired by songs, colours, and shapes. Her pieces usually begin with a synesthesia experience translated into painting through her compositions. Music is the all-pervading element in each of her works.
Ran Fuchs, an Australian artist and global nomad, is driven by two intertwined passions: an undying obsession for wildlife and nature and an exploration of the fine line separating reality from consciousness. Ran's fascination with the natural world converges beautifully with his enduring interest in traditional Japanese arts, specifically kachoga and sumi-e (ink painting).
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.
Eva Reiska is a visual artist from Estonia, working primarily with installation art and painting. Facing depression in her 20s, real birds that she had been keenly observing reminded her of the preciousness of the present moment and freedom. She began creating these reminders for herself through art and, like birds, after graduating, she migrated, traveling to different countries and recording her experience into drawings every day for five years.
