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.
Danquis Johnson is a music producer, experimental film artist, and actor from the greater Philadelphia area. Danquis’ work consists of a fusion of painting, film, nature, and sound. Danquis is most fascinated with the exploration of experimentation through both physical and digital media. Through the exploration of these unpredictable equations, he has to envision the metaphysics turning into the physical as he is separate from reality.
Billie Mae is a 23-year-old analog collage artist based in Connecticut with a passion for music and movies. In their work, Billie likes to portray a sense of surrealism and entertain abstract ideas, most of which come from their own writing. They mainly work in collage, using magazine cuttings and adhesive, but are also known to write and draw, as well as be an active member of their local music scene and community.
Nastassia Bas was born in 1987 in Minsk, Belarus, and currently lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. Through her artistic practice, she tries to understand and feel the changes that happen to man and nature, how we interact, and how we influence each other. She is concerned about the search for a new interaction between man and nature, the search for harmony.
HetHeru RaatMut, aka Vanessa Marshall, is a Kemetic Priestess and Shaman. She is a digital, mixed media, display, and installation artist. HetHeru is also a cultural educator, feminist, human rights, and climate change activist. She owns and operates a clothing retail business called Kultural Adornments. NU World Kulture is her digital and mixed media art collection.
Samruddhi Ramesh Duratkar is a Maharashtra, India-based student-artist who works mainly in body painting media. Environmental concerns are Samruddhi's primary motivation. She warns people against mistreating nature for financial gain and alludes to the ultimate futility of environmental destruction. Her response to what she sees as an injustice is specifically the artwork's foundation.
Uzomah Ugwu is a poet/writer and multi-disciplined artist. Her poetry, writing, and art have been featured internationally in various publications, galleries, and art spaces. She is a political, social, and cultural activist. Her core focus is on human rights, mental health, animal rights, and the rights of LGBTQIA persons. She is also the managing editor and founder of Arte Realizzata.
Mai Aboassi is an Egyptian-based contemporary artist. Born in Oman in 1997, she grew up in Cairo, Egypt. Mai Aboassi illustrates her feelings against a white wall that allows her voice to speak out for her silence. Her art subjects are based on her memories, emotions, and nightmares. She gets inspired by the past and the present, the psychological state of her mind, and all surroundings as she is interested in human behaviour and mental estate.
Ferró (Fernando Rial Dominguez) is a Spanish artist. A multifaceted artist, he performs in the street, and he paints on all kinds of materials, whether mannequins, irons, canvases, or Vespas. Color is their most important means of expression. His creations reflect rebellion through the opposing forms, the mixture of all colors, and the drastic changes from straight lines to curves, without a perfect visual or logical language.
Radna Segal was born in Kalmykia, a region in Southern Russia. Her textural, three-dimensional paintings feature dynamic composition and various experimental materials like plaster, foil, paint, glitter, and beads which create organic movement inspired by nature. Within her pieces, she uses an ancient, rare, and ornate Mongolian writing called “clear script,” that very few in the world know how to create.
Art Magazine Haewon Jang is a Korean artist currently based in New York. She pursues contemporary and indie art, and her artworks stem from her prior experiences, feelings, and philosophical thoughts around life and death. Her illustrations demonstrate the differential effects of emotions throughout an individual’s stages of life, including suffering and celebrations.
Honey is an Iranian artist currently residing in Calgary, Canada. She focuses on art, painting, graphic design, photography, installation, digital painting, poem, and theatre, as well as artistic production and cultural promotion. She explores memories, good and bad, through creative multimedia artworks. She wants to show stories about people, humanity, suffering, true love, and real life all over the world.
Yishi Deng is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Yishi Deng's artwork symbolizes the journey that is taken and finally seeing hope through warm colors. She often references everyday city life through her works and explores the relationship between loneliness and inner peace. Inspired by surrealism and minimalism, the subject matter of each piece is often pulled from reality and a hit of Yishi's imagination.
Katerina Brovkova is an artist, illustrator, and clothing designer from Ukraine. She believes that art can communicate global values and influence the design and fashion industry. And, of course, art is the best way to convey meaning, special feelings, and vibrations through art. All her work is created when she is happy and full of energy, so all this energy of love and growth is transmuted into her art.
Sangeeta Singh is an experienced artist with a demonstrated history of working in the fine art industry for over three decades. Over the years, she has worked on developing her skills in both traditional and contemporary techniques. Her journey as a professional artist started with exploration and experimentation with different media and then with educating herself through formal and informal means.
Siham El Kandoussi is a self-taught abstract painter and amateur photographer. Born and raised in Morocco in 1980, she is now living in Kuwait since 2008. Siham is inspired by the avant-garde abstract expressionist artists, the enriched and omnifarious culture of her homeland, and the different cultures and colors of the cities where she dwells her soul in.
Nikki Gal is an American-born digital artist based in Boston, Massachusetts. Gal expresses the importance of mental health awareness throughout her pieces, giving those a meaningful yet strong take-away. Her latest series, STATE OF A WOMAN, is a series of digital pieces that construct a firm image of different mental health disorders. Gal's mission is to not only make mental health a topic of conversation but a topic of conversation through creativity.
Desirée Jung is a Brazilian artist currently living in Vancouver, Canada. She has published translations, poetry, and fiction in several magazines around the world. Writing, for her, is a hopeless attempt to capture light. Her most recent work, a series of video poems about memory, landscape, and what is not-all out there, has been screened in several film festivals around the world, and can be found on her website.
Markus Böhm is a well-known German artist. He combines abstraction with symbolic and figurative elements. Besides physical art, he designs digital crypto art. He creates unique connections from the physical to the virtual world. His work focuses on painting and its transformation into digital arrangements such as NFT art. He lives, and work in Frankfurt am Main and also abroad.
Bilge Ugursu is a Berlin-based abstract artist. She describes her style as figurative abstract expressionist and uses mixed media in most of her artworks. Ugursu has developed a unique concept by combining her classical paintings with digital art to create a smooth synthesis without rules and conceptualizations. You can see both brush strokes and digital pixels in her artworks.
Luisa Vicente Isola is an Argentinian artist and architect. In her work, she tries to create metaphorical images of emotional states that have allowed her to speak of realities both certain and intangible, images that invite to be examined through a deeply emotional contemplation. Her works invite the viewers to connect through them with their own self, allowing them to have another perception of it.
