"I have an interest in still life and the world of objects, and in my artistic practice, I think about the deeper meaning of things and their aesthetics. The canvas and paper are a playground for me, where space and time are dilated, and perspective is overcome to organise large, chaotic, yet minimal close-ups. The motifs, taken from both the real and digital worlds, are transformed into fragments, repetitions, loops, and progressions, and are deconstructed until their meaning is shifted. The development of images based on visual associations and formal comparisons, the fascination with forms, matter, and its lack, are tools for analysis in a visual language that acts as a mirror for the human mind." – Noemi Durighello

Noemi Durighello (1996, Italy) is a visual artist working mainly with painting, collage, and installation. The forms and objects she investigates are artifacts, hybrid figures that have lost their original function and seek a new identity in her work. She received a BFA from the Fine Art Academy in Venice (2019), an MFA-equivalent diploma from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden (2022), and completed the postgraduate (Meisterschülerin) program under Prof. Anne Neukamp at HfBK Dresden in 2025. Her work has been included in many group shows, including The Space Between Walls, Ulstrup Gallery, Aarhus (2025); Wo ist das Gelb?, Schau Fenster, Berlin (2024); and WIN/WIN: Die Ankäufe der Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz (2024). 

Recent solo exhibitions include Schleudergang, Dots, Leipzig (2025); Head in the Clouds, SMDOT Contemporary Art, Udine (2024); and Natura Morta, Gallery Goldene Pforte, Dresden (2024). Her work is part of private and public collections, including the Kunstfonds of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Saxony State Art Collections, Germany). In 2022, she was awarded a two-year grant from the State of Saxony (Sächsisches Landesstipendium) and the Combat Prize (Painting category). Upcoming projects include a two-person show at SMDOT Contemporary Art and a group show at Barbati Gallery.

Laia Garcia (b. 1997) is a Catalan artist based in Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona. She approaches painting as a “middle ground”, a scenario where worries, wishes, mysteries, and non senses of the human psyche are brought into dialogue through symbolic mechanisms. Archetypes, surroundings, human relationships, and natural cycles (among others) are some of the themes that inspire her inner vision. Like a map of intricate relations between elements, painting stretches as a rope of time capable of shape-shifting memory and linking to new realities. In her own words: “Painting thrives when it shows what can be seen, so each work is a constant face-to-face with possibility in itself". 

Laia’s work has been presented recently in art fairs such as URVANITY (Madrid), CAN ART (Ibiza), and SWAB (Barcelona), and she has participated in grupal, duo, and solo exhibitions in Madrid (Herrero de Tejada, Tha House, Espacio La Hipoteca) and in Barcelona (Galeria Ola, Beta Contemporary). 

Evian Wenyi Zhang’s practice centers on a distinctive grid-based methodology that functions as a critical framework for examining the politics of seeing and the infrastructures that shape contemporary image consumption. By observing how arbitrarily selected categories of images—whether personal or socially functional—behave when processed through a system based on her own hierarchy of attention, she reveals how visual material is never merely aesthetic but always ideologically conditioned. Her method disrupts content-driven models of image circulation, tracing how appearances are instrumentalized for social, cultural, and political ends. 

Zhang’s approach resonates with the modernist grid identified by Rosalind Krauss in 1979, where the grid asserts a visual logic that rejects representation in favor of formal autonomy. She reinterprets this autonomy through the metaphor of a smoothie blender: the original fruit and the resulting flavor stand in for the content and appearance of an image—what exists before and after its passage through the grid. In Zhang’s work, the grid becomes a site where cultural representations are digested, fragmented, and recomposed into new visual forms. The “taste” that remains—her grid paintings—serves simultaneously as evidence and critique of how images are metabolized within broader cultural systems. 

From this foundation, Zhang extends her inquiry into other media such as photography and sculpture, which become personifications of the inherited visual regimes that have been filtered, concealed, and transformed through her process.

Evian Wenyi Zhang (b. 2000, Shanghai) lives and works in Berlin. She holds a BA in Art History from New York University. The artist has had solo exhibitions at Pedro Cera, Lisbon (2025), Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles (2024) and Lulu, Mexico City (2022). Her works were part of the group exhibitions at Société, Berlin (2025); OG Gallery, Istanbul (2025); Sister Galerie, Seoul (2024); Pedro Cera, Lisbon (2024); Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin (2024); Public Gallery, London (2024, 2023); Travesía Cuatro, Madrid (2023); Tara Downs, New York (2023); 69 Art Campus, Beijing (2024); and MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai (2021). Zhang’s work is in the collections of M Woods Collection, Beijing; and X Museum, Beijing.

Gala Knörr is an artist and researcher from Vitoria-Gasteiz whose work bridges visual practice and critical inquiry. Primarily pictorial, her practice reflects on the power of images and their influence on collective consciousness. Grounded in a research-based approach, her oeuvre extends into video, performance, readings, and writing to explore themes related to popular culture and the construction of shared histories. 

She has received numerous recognitions, including the Frank Bidart Chair at California State University (2025), the Olaso Dorrea Fundazioa Monzon Ganuza Award (2024), the Fundación Bilbaoarte Grant (2022), the Generación 2020 Award from Fundación Montemadrid – La Casa Encendida (2020), and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Basque Artist Program Grant (2017). 

Knörr is a PhD candidate in Contemporary Art Research at the University of the Basque Country (EHU/UPV). She holds a BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons Paris and an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins. She has given lectures, artist talks, and workshops at institutions such as the University of Granada, the University of the Basque Country (Vitoria-Gasteiz), the University of Murcia, the Centre for Documentation and Advanced Studies in Contemporary Art (Murcia), the Historical Research Center at CSU Bakersfield, and Bakersfield College. 

She has undertaken residencies at Ses12naus (Ibiza), Fundación Mecenas Casa Natal Picasso (Málaga), Azkuna Zentroa (Bilbao), MORPHO (Antwerp), C3A (Córdoba), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), AIR Wro (Wrocław), and the Centre for Postcolonial Studies at Goldsmiths University (London). 

Knörr’s work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at institutions and galleries such as the Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), DA2 (Salamanca), C3A (Córdoba), Azkuna Zentroa (Bilbao), Casal Solleric (Palma), Galería T20 (Murcia), and Pablo’s Birthday (New York), among others.