Based in New York and Berlin, Jutta Koether is a painter, performance artist, musician, critic, and theoretician. Her conceptual paintings challenge the viewer’s understanding of the medium’s terms and histories, often appropriating and retooling elements from the work of male masters.
Born in Cologne in 1958, Jutta Koether studied art and philosophy at the University of Cologne and the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Her work resides in such collections as the Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Kunsthalle Bern; mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Museum Brandhorst.

For over five decades, Francesco Clemente has forged a singular career that seeks intercultural resonance, addressing the philosophical dualities of mind and body, freedom and constraint, and part and whole.
Born in Naples, Italy, in 1952, Clemente studied architecture at the Sapienza University of Rome. Following his participation in the 1980 Venice Biennale, he was critically lauded as a leader of the “return to figuration.” In 1981, with his wife Alba, he relocated to downtown Manhattan, where he collaborated with such figures as Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, and Rene Ricard. He founded the imprint Hanuman Books with Raymond Foye in 1986, and in 1998, he created the portraits that were featured in Alfonso Cuarón’s film Great Expectations.

(b.1989) Graduated from Yale MFA of Photography, is a Chinese photographer based in Shanghai and New York. He has won a number of awards including World Press Photo; BarTur Photo Award; Three Shadows Photography Award & AlPA special prize and Hou Dengke Documentary Photography Award. Chen has exhibited in Les Rencontres d’Arles, OCAT, ICP museum, Format Festival, Photoville, and more. His series Freezing Land has had dedicated reviews in Art in America, The Guardian, New York Times, and FT Magazine. A photobook of the same series published by Jiazazhi was nominated for the 2020 Aperture Foundation & ParisPhoto First Photobook Award.

Hou ChunMing, born in Liujiao Township, Chiayi County, Taiwan in 1963, graduated from the National Institute of the Arts (now the Taipei National University of the Arts). He was invited to exhibited in Venice Biennale in 1995 and 2013, and he has started the interviewing project since 2008 in Yokohama, Taipei, Taichung, Bangkok, Chiayi, and Hong Kong. His artwork can be found in the collections of The Ludwig Forum for International Art, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, M+ in Hong Kong, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Tainan Art Museum, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Dimension Endowment of Art, Wenhsiu Collection, Five Dime, and White Rabbit Gallery.

Mak Ying Tung 2 (b. 1989, Hong Kong) is a conceptual artist. Her work contemplates 21st-century issues through the study of philosophy, art history, culture, shifting socio-political environments, the internet, and new technology. The aesthetic experience she crafts is bound by the dualism of humor and intense inquisitiveness. She creates, installations, paintings, drawings, video work, youtube videos, stand-up comedy routines, and Instagram filters.

Lin Jingjing (b. Shanghai, China) graduated from Fujian University with a B.F.A. in 1992 before completing her advanced studies at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1994. In 2020, she received an M.F.A. from School of Visual Arts in New York.
Lin Jingjing explores the depths of social and personal identity in the context of modern society, often examining themes such as confusion and quest, existence and absence, constraint and resistance through a lens of paradox. Her artwork spans performances, installation, painting, mixed media and video. She is also well known for layering thread over paintings, installations, and other mixed media to create dazzling worlds. The surreal effect created via this method immerses the viewers into another consciousness.

Roby Dwi Antono is one of the fastest rising urban art stars. Antono is good at dissolving the conflicts between reality and fantasy with surrealistic expressions. His fine, realistic drawings fuse the the distortions and contradictions of the conceptions and re-mould them in various carriers. With this unique style, He successfully builds a private room of personal experiences and imaginations that encourages the audience to seek for the clues in the paintings, and find their own interpretations to jointly construct abundant conversations for each artwork.

Xyza Cruz Bacani (b.1987) is a Filipina author and photographer based in Hong Kong and New York who uses her work to raise awareness about under-reported stories.

Having worked as a second-generation domestic worker in Hong Kong for almost a decade, she is particularly interested in the intersection of labour migration and human rights. She is one of the Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellows in 2015, author of the book We Are Like Air, and has exhibited worldwide and won awards in photography.

Xyza is the recipient of a resolution passed by the Philippines House of Representatives in her honor, HR No.1969. She has achieved many accolades: Asia 21 Young Leaders (Class of 2018), BBC’s 100 Women of the World 2015, and 30 Under 30 Women Photographers 2016, among others.

Su Huangsheng (b. 1987 in Taoyuan, Taiwan) received his master’s degree from Taipei National University of Arts, majoring in ink painting. With a focus on the in-depth discussion of the nature of ink and painting, Su embraces both the tradition of Chinese painting and the contemporary visual language and ways of expression, depicting subjects from his daily life and native culture. Su won the“CTBC Painting Prize”in February 2022. And has been nominated for the Kaohsiung Award Ink Painting (2015), Art Taipei MIT Young Artist Section (2017), and was the grantee of the Residency of Visual Art, Asian Cultural Council, New York (2019). Su currently lives and works in Taipei.

Hsu Tung Lung graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at National Taiwan Normal University. The artist has a creative career that has spanned more than half a century.

Hsu Tung Lung has achieved much in the field of sculpture. He has also immersed himself in related research. From early on, he was attached to the idea of molding shapes in his gradual exploration of abstract stylistic language.

The work, Padmapani (2016), shows how Hsu is able to adeptly craft an immortal, with robes flapping in the wind, from hard and solid white marble. Moreover, his ability to transform the rigidity of the material into something soft and flowing, but also invisible and intangible, reflects the Chinese philosophy of tempering hardness with softness and his own understanding of “free form,” a test