1989, Quito, Ecuador. He lives and works in Quito.

Adrián Balseca’s work aims to activate strategies of representation, narration, and interaction in order to highlight cultural specificities of a particular place. It explores the relationship and tensions between industrial and craft practices, revealing a fascination with the historic processes, and the configuration of materials involved in the production of manufactured goods. His work ranges from small interventions to large scale "site specific" actions or video documentations and elaborates on ideas of emerging economies, environment and nature, power, and social memory.

Claudio Parmiggiani, 1943, Luzzara, Italy. He lives and works in Parma, Italy.

Parmiggiani studied at the Istituto di Belle Arti di Modena between 1958-1960. During this time he frequented the studio of Giorgio Morandi, whose work was to have a profound impact on him. The spirit of Marcel Duchamp and Piero Manzoni was also apparent early on in his manipulation and presentation of objects. Associated throughout his career with both the Arte Povera and Conceptual Art movements, Parmiggiani’s work resists substantial connection with either.

Marco Tirelli, 1956, Rome, Italy. He lives and works in Rome and Spoleto, Italy.

Marco Tirelli is an artist with a deep sense of what lies beyond. Both his education (set design) and his environment (Rome, Spoleto) laid the foundation for the construction of his poetic and subdued universe of repeated images, that dwells on the border of illusion and reality and delves in the maze of the memory. His practice consists of drawings and sculptures — studies as well as stand-alone works — and large-scale paintings of imaginative and recognisable geometric forms, trapped in arresting contrasts of light and darkness.

Otto Boll, 1952, Issum, Geldern. He lives and works in Germany.

Otto Boll is an artist who operates from an expressly minimalist sensibility. His works are acutely reduced forms of steel that hover in space, almost cutting through it. Suspended by barely visible nylon threads, these sculptures — lines drawn in the air — seem to float, and inhabit the area and space overhead. Using 3 mm strips of steel, he sharpens the tip until he achieves a point so fine that its outer limit disappears. Thus, the artist is capable of shaping visual statements that linger precariously on the edge: the works oscillate between presence and absence, the seen and the unseen, suggesting both materiality and the void. The artist is thereby able to unsettle the viewer's conception of solidity.

Renato Nicolodi, 1980, Brussels, Belgium. He lives and works in Borchtlombeek.

Renato Nicolodi seeks to evoke a universal sacrality in his work. His sculptures and paintings imagine spaces with corridors and stairs leading to closed-off passage-ways. Light and shade draw the gaze of the spectator to the inside of the construction, which remains invisible. The core of the work seems to conserve some sort of emptiness. The artist refers to archetypical buildings from past times and cultures, stripping them from their original function, ornament and dogma.

Cai Lei, 1983, Changchun, China. He lives and works in Beijing.

His works have been exhibited and awarded multiple times in important art museums at home and abroad, including the Taylor Foundation (Paris), the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing), the Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute (Chongqing), the Poly Art Museum (Beijing), the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan), the Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art (USA), the Today Art Museum (Beijing), the Bonn Museum of Contemporary Art (Germany), the Datong Museum (Datong), the Blue Roof Museum of Chengdu Contemporary Art (Chengdu), the Liu Haisu Art Museum (Shanghai), the Chongqing Changjiang Contemporary Art Museum (Chongqing), the Beijing Minsheng Modern Art Museum (Beijing), and the Chronus Art Center (Wenzhou), among others.

Taca Sui, 1984, Qingdao, China. He lives and works in Hangzhou.

Taca studied at China Central Academy of Fine Arts and Rochester Institute of Technology.

Recent exhibitions include Flowing Waters Never Return to the Source: Photographers Gazing at the River in China, Jumièges Abbey, France (2020); An Impulse to turn, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, China (2020); Art of the Mountain: Through the Chinese Photographer’s Lens,China Institute Gallery, New York (2018); 40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography 1976-2017, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China (2017); Steles-Huang Yi Project, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA (2016); Art and East Asia, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, USA (2015); The Art of the Chinese Album, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (2014); DUCHAMP and/or/in CHINA , Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2013).

Birdhead, consisting of Song Tao (b. 1979) and Ji Weiyu (b. 1980), has been working in the medium of analog photography since it was established in 2004. Lives and works in Shanghai, China.

The name "Birdhead" came from a random keystroke for file naming. The artistic practice of Birdhead is based on photographs but also beyond the philosophy of photography. Capturing all the beings around them, the two members of Birdhead digest and apply the thinking mode of conceptual art into the context of their image interpretation. By combining the photographic matrix, collage, installation, particular mounting technique and so on, Birdhead delivers a “Birdhead world” in various exhibition spaces and humanistic environment.

Hu Weiyi, 1990, Shanghai, China. He lives and works in Shanghai.

He graduated from China Academy of Art in 2013 and obtained a Bachelor's degree in Public Art and a Master's degree in Media Literature. Hu Weiyi's works have been exhibited and collected by many important art institutions at home and abroad, including the Helmhaus Zurich (Switzerland), the White Rabbit Contemporary Art Museum (Australia), the V2 Institute for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam), the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing), the Power Station of Art (Shanghai), the Long Museum (Shanghai), the Yuz Museum (Shanghai), the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Guangdong Times Museum, the Minsheng Art Museum, the Art Museum of the China Academy of Art, and the Hong Kong Arts Centre, among others. Hu Weiyi won the Grand Prize of the 2nd Huayu Youth Award Committee in 2014.

Nancy Sheung , 1914-1079, Suzhou/Hong Kong, China.

She moved to Hong Kong in the 1940s and successfully established her own business in construction and architecture. She turned to photography in her 40s. In a world that was dominated by men, she developed her distinctive style which combines Asian aesthetic with a modernity inspired by the European and American photography of her time.

Fan Ho, 1931- 2016 , Shanghai/Hong Kong. Fan Ho, nicknamed ‘the great master’ earned his fame as one Asia’s most beloved street photographers capturing Hong Kong in the 50’s and 60’s. Fan Ho’s photographic career started in Shanghai.

Fan Ho is known as the “Cartier-Bresson of the East”.During his photo shoots, he often waits patiently for the "perfect moment", where the human figures and carefully constructed geometric structures and lines of the background converge unexpectedly. He also likes to use backlit effects or combine smoke and light to create a sense of drama and atmosphere. His favorite shooting locations are on the sea or on the streets, and he particularly enjoys capturing the narrow alleys and markets where the setting sun casts long, slender shadows.

B. Ajay Sharma, Jharkhand, India. He currently lives and works in New Delhi, Varanasi and Grazrema, Spain.

B. Ajay Sharma is a contemporary visual artist. Sharma studied painting in two of India's renown art institutions. Sharma uses a wide range of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, conventional and revived techniques of photography, durational and site-specific installations, as well as new technologies.

Shen Linghao, 1988, Shanghai, China. He currently lives and works in Shanghai.

He graduated with a BFA from the oil painting department of the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts and with an MFA from the studio art department of the San Francisco Art Institute. Through his practice, he examines the relationship between time, memory, and individual experience, working in various media, including photography, video, installation, text, and more. Shen is skilled in using photosensitive materials and their unique qualities to reconstruct the relationship between time and memory, creating his own philosophically charged artistic language. His site-specific installations explore the possibilities and extensions of technology in art through the application of new materials and techniques.

Wu Junyong, 1978, Putian, China. He currently lives and works in Hangzhou.

He graduated from The China Academy of Art where he studied in both the Printmaking (1996-2000) and New Media (2002-2005) departments. He now lives and works in Hangzhou. His predominant medium is painting on paper and creating animated films. Since 2003, Wu has been exhibiting extensively both domestically and internationally, and his works have been collected by many art institutions, museums, and private collections.

Ma Lingli, 1989, Chengdu, China. She currently lives and works in Beijing.

She graduated from the Department of Chinese Painting at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute with a BFA in 2012. In recent years, Ma Lingli focuses on studying the materiality of the substrate in artworks, and allowing images to adhere to the process of such materiality, presenting as a game of contact, entanglement, or separation between the self and the external world.. Her works have been exhibited at various venues, including the National Art Museum of China (Beijing, China), Today Art Museum (Beijing, China), Song Art Museum (Beijing, China), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Fukuoka, Japan), Royal College of Art Gallery (Kensington, UK), and Fondation Taylor (Paris, France), among others. She was awarded the First Prize in Caissa Rising Artists - Exhibition for Nominated Students (2013) and the First Prize in "The Boat of 2012" - "Aussina Cup" Annual Nomination Exhibition for Students of Contemporary Art Academies.

Shang Yixin, 1980, Wenzhou, China. He currently lives and works in Hangzhou.

In 2007 he graduated from the China Academy of Art Department with an MFA in Oil Painting. Shang Yixin held solo exhibitions at Beijing Commune, Beijing (2016, 2013) and Hongqiao Gallery, Shanghai (2007). His works have been exhibited in G Museum, Nanjing (2021); The Roof Culture, Hangzhou (2019); HuBei Museum of Art, Hubei (2017); Mingsheng Art Museum, Beijing (2017); MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai (2017); How Art Museum, Shanghai (2015); San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas, U.S. (2015); Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, U.S. (2015); Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing (2014); Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing (2013); Rubell Family Collection and Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, U.S. (2013); Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2013); Central Acaedmy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Beijing (2012); Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai (2012); 18 Gallery, Shanghai (2012); White Space, Beijing (2012); The Gallery of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou (2011); J: GALLERY, Shanghai (2011); FEIZI Gallery, Shanghai (2011); Pifo Gallery, Beijing (2011); Soka Art, Beijing (2011); Ecube Contemporary Art Space, Hangzhou (2011); Gallery Yang, Beijing (2011); Impression Space, Beijing (2010); XI Concept, Beijing (2010); DDM, Shanghai (2010);Times Art Museum, Beijing (2010); Medium Art Centre, Beijing (2009); Shanghai 2010 Art Center, Shanghai (2009); SZ Art Center, Beijing (2009); Gallery 55, Shanghai (2009); SZ Art Center, Beijing (2008); Red Bridge Gallery, Shanghai (2008); Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai (2006); Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai (2006), etc.

Giorgio de Chirico, 1888–1978, Volos, Greece.

Chirico was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. His best-known works often feature Roman arcades, long shadows, mannequins, trains, and illogical perspective. His imagery reflects his affinity for the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and of Friedrich Nietzsche, and for the mythology of his birthplace.

After 1919, he became a critic of modern art, studied traditional painting techniques, and worked in a neoclassical or neo-Baroque style, while frequently revisiting the metaphysical themes of his earlier work.

Quadrature, lives and works in Berlin.

Quadrature is an artist duo. Its members Juliane Götz and Sebastian Neitsch utilize technology as a means to read and write realities, with data as their main material. Various art and science collaborations have led the artists further and further into outer space, fusing the objective views of science with their very own subjective truth as artists. Quadrature has won several scholarships for their artistic practice, including recognitions by the Prix Ars Electronica in 2015 and 2018, scholarships from the Kunstfonds Bonn, Akademie Schloss Solitude and La Becque, as well as a fellowship from PODIUM Esslingen and the Hertz-lab of the ZKM Karlsruhe.

Gao Lei, 1980, Changsha, China. He currently lives and works in Shanghai.

Gao Lei's artistic creation involves various media such as installation, sculpture, photography, and painting. He often uses everyday objects and "standardized" industrial products as basic elements in his work. These works are processed through synthesis or abstraction of standardized forms, and are manipulated or supplemented with functions, attributes, and meanings in the process of blurring and transformation. As a result, they become scales and models between various fields such as body measurement, power, consumption, and religion. Through precise material testing and vectorization of graphics, the works, together with the objects they face and the questions they attempt to raise, constantly jump in the spatial and conceptual dimensions, allowing the viewer to use a standard beyond experience to re-examine and measure the inherent boundaries between us and the world.

Gao Lei has held solo exhibitions at institutions such as the White Space (Beijing, China), Arario Gallery (Seoul, South Korea), and Taipei Fine Arts Museum. His works have also been featured in group exhibitions at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Minsheng Art Museum and Long Museum (all in Shanghai), Tank Shanghai (Shanghai), Hauser & Wirth (Hong Kong), Guangdong Times Museum (Guangzhou), Singapore Art Museum, Valencia Institute of Modern Art (Valencia, Spain), Dingli Art Museum (Basel, Switzerland), and National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, among other international art institutions.

His works are collected by institutions such as: CAFA Art Museum, China; Minsheng Art Museum, China; Long Museum, China; How Art Museum, China; A4 Art Museum, China; Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; Arario Museum, Korea; White Rabbit Collection, Australia; DSL Collection, France; KOO HAUSE Collection, Korea; Etc.

SHIMURAbros, consisting of sister Yuka (b. 1976) and brother Kentaro (b. 1979). Lives and works in Tokyo and Berlin.

Yuka was graduated in 2006 from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design London. Kentaro was graduated in 2003 from Tokyo Polytechnic University, College of Art.

They are known for incorporating elements of sculpture, installation, and avant-garde filmmaking. A new expression of imagery is achieved through their inventions. Their works have been shown at The National Art Centre, Tokyo; NUS Museum Singapore; MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei); PICA (the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts Museum), Australia; Museums Quartier, Vienna. "SEKILALA" received the Excellence Prize (Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Prize) at the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival. SHIMURAbros relocated to Berlin in 2014 on a research grant from the Pola Art Foundation, where they are currently residence artists at the studio of Olafur Eliasson.

Xu Lei's visual rhetoric is rooted in an inherent dialectic and balance. He believes that art is not only about showing the techniques, nor is it a carrier of stance and concepts, but rather a form of intellectual practice, a way of changing cognition. His art undoubtedly benefits from art history, and some of his works even directly appropriate pictorial elements from the history of painting of China and of foreign cultures. The appropriation is ostensible. His goal is not to establish a connection with art history, nor to point to a certain idea, but to establish a visual rhetorical discourse by provoking and teasing these patterns.

Liu Lu, 1991, Taizhou, China. She currently lives and works in Hangzhou.

She graduated from the Oil Painting Department of China Academy of Art with a Master's degree in 2017.

Liu Lu's painting is based on a hazy and psychedelic visual experience of this era, revolving around the overlapping of light and shadow between the virtual and the real. She infuses the false and distorted yet delicate texture of "Gaussian blur" in filters into the paintings. She employs abstract shapes, symbols, and lines to present those virtual yet daily existences. Liu Lu shows us another possibility of reestablishing real description and expression in a world where the boundaries between reality and falsehood, precision and ambiguity gradually blur.

Szelit Cheung is an artist based in Hong Kong, working in various media including painting, drawing, photography, and installation. After graduating from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2012, Cheung became a full-time artist. His artistic style often explores the essence of "emptiness" in things, using minimalistic techniques to explore and magnify the three important elements of art - "form", "light" and "color", while hovering between the relationship of "existence" and "emptiness", creating strong tension.

Cheung's works are mostly in private collections and have been exhibited in group shows and solo exhibitions in various places. His works have been shown in the United States, France, Mainland China, and Hong Kong. At the same time, his works have also been displayed in local and overseas museums and art galleries, including the Museum of 1000 in Miami, USA (2019) and the Hong Kong Arts Center (2020).

Wang Ningde, 1955, Kuandian, China. He currently lives and works in Beijing.

Wang Ningde, 1995 Graduated from Photography Department at Luxun Academy of Fine Arts. Wang Ningde's early works were mainly focuses on photography, and in recent years, his works have gradually involved installation and other art forms, focusing on contemporary art and researching cutting-edge issues such as the language and essence of images. He has expanded the boundaries of the language of image art in various forms and depicted more subtle subjective feelings of the present.

Since 1999, he has had solo exhibitions in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Paris, and Tokyo etc. He has also participated in more than 100 international group exhibitions since 2000.

His works are collected by Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), White Rabbit Collection, Chongqing Art Museum, Hubei Museum of Art, CAFA Art Museum, Guangdong Museum of Art, Lishui Photography Museum, The Red Mansion Foundation, Franks-Suss Collection, Dr. Uli Sigg Collection, Burger Collection, and other important institutional and personal collections.

Camille Blatrix, 1984, Paris, France. He lives and works in Paris.

He graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2011.

He has recently presented solo exhibitions at Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York (2021, 2017); Kunsthalle Basel (2020); Fondation Hermès, Brussels (2019); Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2019); BMW Open Work, Frieze London (2019); Taylor Macklin, Zurich (2018); Balice Hertling (2017, 2016, 2014); and CCA Wattis, San Francisco (2016), among others.

His work has been included in group shows at Balice Hertling, Paris (2020, 2016); Fri Art, Fribourg (2019); Musée d'art Moderne de Paris (2019); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018); Musée régional d'art contemporain Occitanie, Sérignan (2018); and Hessel Museum of Art at CSS Bard, New York (2018). In 2014, he received the Prix Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, and in 2015 he participated in the Lyon Biennale.

Notable public acquisitions include Pinault Foundation, Paris, France; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; CNAP, France; Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, France; Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon.

Xie Fan, 1983, Jiangyou, China. He currently lives and works in Beijing and Chengdu.

Xie Fan graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2005. In recent years, he has begun to use semi-transparent silk as the base for his creations, creating a material diffuse reflection space with light, silk, picture frames, and oil paints working together.

This choice of painting method clearly highlights the non-materiality of the artist's persistent visual style. From a physical perspective, it goes beyond the conventional relationship between image and background in flat painting forms, making the viewer's gaze seem to be looking back at the image projected onto their own retina, and at that moment turning the visual back into what Plato called the "cave," presenting the essence of vision in a dialectical way.

His recent solo exhibitions include Back to The Footlights Tomorrow, White Space, Beijing, China (2014). His recent group exhibitions include Silkroad on the Moonlight, Gowolhun, Seoul, South Korea (2017); Mountain Sites: Views of Laoshan, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China (2016); The Moscow Biennale, All-Russia Exhibition Centre (VDNKh), Moscow, Russia (2015); Absolute Collection Guideline, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China (2015).

Liu Wenqi, 1985, Shanghai, China. She currently lives and works in Paris.

In 2018, she started to work as an independent artist.

Liu Wenqi's initial contact with ceramics was accidental, or perhaps it stemmed from her sensitivity to materials and textures, and ceramics as a medium offers unlimited creative space for artists. She often starts with a certain texture or technique and tries to experiment and explore the reactions between different mixed materials like a researcher. She allows herself to be guided by experience and error, following the materials, listening to the materials, and feeling the relationship between them, gradually shaping her own set of formulas.

In her work, different relationships are always being explored, especially the artist's exploration of herself, her subtle and sensitive feelings towards external things, and the relationship between people and things. Her inspiration comes from a variety of sources, mainly textiles, architecture, and the microcosm. The relationship between creation and Liu Wenqi is like composing a beautiful poem, leading her through the clouds, feeling the gentlest beauty in the depths of her soul, floating in a romantic world.