INTERVIEW | Maurizio D'Andrea

INTERVIEW | Maurizio D'Andrea

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.

INTERVIEW | JoKu

INTERVIEW | JoKu

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.

INTERVIEW | Saliha Hanif

INTERVIEW | Saliha Hanif

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.

INTERVIEW | Dalia Raduca

INTERVIEW | Dalia Raduca

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.

INTERVIEW | Sunny Ko

INTERVIEW | Sunny Ko

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.

INTERVIEW | Nat Lap

INTERVIEW | Nat Lap

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.

Aftermaths | Hybrid Collective Exhibition at Kulturnest

Aftermaths |  Hybrid Collective Exhibition at Kulturnest

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.

INTERVIEW | Darious Shan

INTERVIEW | Darious Shan

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.

INTERVIEW | Natalia Shamrai (Kolpakova)

INTERVIEW | Natalia Shamrai (Kolpakova)

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.

INTERVIEW | Ningrui Liu

INTERVIEW | Ningrui Liu

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.

INTERVIEW | Elena Popova

INTERVIEW | Elena Popova

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.

INTERVIEW | Krystyna Vinogorodska

INTERVIEW | Krystyna Vinogorodska

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.

INTERVIEW | Nike Kama

INTERVIEW | Nike Kama

Nike Kama (b. 1979, Aktau, Kazakhstan) is a Berlin-based artist whose work embodies the spirit of naïve painting, driven by an unwavering belief in the transformative power of love, colour, and symbolism. Though not academically trained, Kama has forged her own artistic path, expressing emotions and life experiences through images that radiate joy and positivity.