Artists

Ilhwa Kim (b. 1967 in South Korea) creates works that are composed of tens of thousands of seed units. Each seed unit has a combination of straight lines and circles, which compose a tiny single universe. The materials are created personally for every single universe. The Korean artist dyes each sheet of paper by hand with thousands of different colours cutting and rolling the layers of paper to make them rigid. It gives Kim an emotional bonding to every single universe. Not a single universe has the same shape, look or colour in her work.

Sougwen 愫君 Chung is a Chinese-Canadian artist and researcher, and is the founder and artistic director of Scilicet, a London-based studio exploring human & non-human collaboration. Chung is a former research fellow at MIT’s Media Lab and is considered a pioneer in the field of human-machine collaboration – exploring the mark-made-by-hand and the mark-made-by-machine as an approach to understanding the dynamics of humans and systems. Sougwen Chung received the Lumen Prize for Art in Technology, was an inaugural E.A.T. Artist in Residence in partnership with New Museum and Bell Labs, was awarded a commission for project Omnia per Omnia, was the Japan Media Arts recipient of the Excellence Award for Drawing Operations, and more recently has been awarded by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in AI, while also receiving their TIME Impact 2024 award and speaking at World Economic Forum Davos.

Zheng Lu (born 1978 in Inner Mongolia, China) works and lives in Beijing. Zheng Lu studied at Lu Xun Fine art Academy from 1998-2003 and then at the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing from 2004 until 2007. While still in school, Zheng was awarded with LVMH Prize, which provided the artist with three months training at The École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, ENSBA, Paris. Zheng’s artistic practice mainly revolves around sculpture and installation works with steel structure, but it includes also two-dimensional works, multimedia projects, and public art.

Vladinsky was born in July, 1988, in the city of Onesti, a city located in the Moldovan area of ​​Romania. From the first years of school he was fascinated by visual arts because of a fine arts teacher. Being the first generation in a country barely escaped from communism, the help received from his parents was modest because the family did not know the true meaning of freedom and it was very difficult to guide him in finding a form of expression.

Joseph Klibansky (b. 1984 in Cape Town) is a Dutch artist based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. His work examines the relationship between a thing and its essence, between what we see and what an image implies. The sense of precarious equilibrium that can be found in his recent paintings and in his sculptures reveals just how sadly dystopian an image can be that, at first glance, appears happily utopian. It thus reveals how utopia and dystopia can coexist within the same image.

Born in 1962 in Sichuan Province, China, Zhuang Hong Yi lives and works between The Netherlands & Beijing. Zhuang's well known and highly collected 'flower bed' works are crafted from delicate pieces of painted rice paper, which he has bent and folded into hundreds of tiny buds.

Jan Kaláb became a prominent figure on the urban art scene after emerging from former Eastern Bloc. In the 1990s he established an iconic crew 'DSK', which proved instrumental in introducing graffiti to the Czech Republic and beyond. He is influence is consistently expanding, eliminating the differences between great and minor art, the milieu of street art, graffiti and gallery art.

Eser Gündüz is an emerging artist whose work is focused on researching the concept of historical utopias and relating it to our time, creating work that reacts to the different ideals of the subject matter and connects it to our modern day understanding through large scale art pieces.

Camille Hannah’s work predicate a model of painting that is born from within the frame of technology; they are embedded in twenty-first century gestural abstraction while conceptually vested in digital and screen technologies.

At its core, Max Patté’s practice is an exploration of the infinite qualities of light and how it is expressed in the natural world manifested into physical works in the studio utilising the technologies he has at his fingertips. Advances in modern technologies are a constant source of inspiration to the production of Patté’s work. The latest developments in an array of computer programs, iPad apps, CNC Milling, digital scanning and 3D printing are all employed on a day to day basis in his studio.

Anne von Freyburg (b. 1979) is a Dutch artist based in London. She received her MFA from Goldsmiths (2016) and holds a BA in Fashion Design from ArtEZ Arnhem, The Netherlands. Her work is part of the Tapestry Triennial at the Central Textile Museum in Lodz, Poland (2022) one of the most prominent international Textile Museums worldwide.

Jason Sims is an Australian artist who works in the realm of perceptual art. Using the properties of light and reflection, he creates simple illusions of space in the form of contemporary sculpture, large-scale installation and public art.

Born in 1981 in Argentina, in a small town near Buenos Aires. Her passion for art started at a young age but it was not until her late twenties, after graduating in Economics, that she decided to dedicate her life to Photography. She studied Photography, Fashion Photography, Art Direction and Scenery in different places including the Institute of the prestigious Teatro Colon. And her influence comes mainly from Classic Paintings.

Julian Voss-Andreae, a German sculptor based in Portland (Oregon, USA) is widely known for his striking large-scale public and private commissions often blending figurative sculpture with scientific insights into the nature of reality. His sculptures are frequently shown at international art fairs and galleries and can be found in major collections all over the world. Voss-Andreae’s work has been featured in print and broadcast media worldwide and videos of his sculpture have gone viral with tens of millions of views.

Gordon Cheung is an internationally acclaimed multi-media artist who was born in 1975 in London to Chinese parents. His work is found in major museums including The British Museum in London, The Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, to name a few. Cheung’s artistic research is focused on exploring themes related to history, politics, culture, mythology and religion. By employing an avant-garde approach to painting, he creates mesmerising spaces where the virtual and the actual worlds are no longer clearly discernible. His dreamlike visions are charged with symbolic elements and are generated through digital manipulations, appropriated images and animations. Continuously striving to open up new dimensions for reflection, his work ponders over both past and current affairs in our capitalistic society, presenting an innovative artistic language which has gained him global reputation. Cheung obtained a Masters of Fine Arts from the Royal College of Art in London in 2001 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London in 1998.

Seduced by the whole existence and the love of the universe, Lyès celebrates the energy of life. Inspired by mindfulness and spirituality, the artist is attracted by reality and our perceptions of it. Lyès’ work, named 'Source', shows the energy and the natural forces present in all people, all places, all times and all materials. The artist portrays the celebration of life using wall sculptures and installations, with a prediction for monumental artworks.

Gianfranco Meggiato was born in Venice in 1963, where he attended the Istituto Statale d'Arte art college for five years, studying stone, bronze, wood and ceramic sculpture. At the invitation of the Municipality of Venice, he exhibited his works at a very young age in two exhibitions, in 1979 and 1984, at the "Galleria Comunale Bevilacqua La Masa" in St Mark's Square, Venice, where he showed sculptures in stone and semi-refractory material. Since 1998 Gianfranco Meggiato has participated without interruption in a long series of exhibitions, shows and fairs in Italy and abroad. In recent years, Gianfranco Meggiato has been invited to take part in the 54th and the 55th Venice Biennale, where he has exhibited among national participations.

In the process of discovering myself, I have revealed some strong psychological figures (inner child, feminine side, tyrannical side, contemporary side). I noticed that some paths went entirely differently when designing or thinking about new works. For example, the process of creating oil paintings was utterly different from the process of creating sculptures.