Maria Appleton (b. 1997) is a Lisbon-based artist whose practice interrogates the subjectivity of urban systems and human perception.
Her work has been presented internationally through exhibitions and residencies, including Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan (2018); EMMA Institute, Germany (2020); Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2022, funded by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation); Fondation CAB, Brussels (2024); and the Albers Foundation residency program (2026). Solo exhibitions include Gaze to See, Gauze to Perceive at FOCO Gallery, Lisbon (2021), HATCH, Paris (2023), and What Holds the Structure at Galeria Foco, Lisbon (2026).

Kara Chin (b. 1994, Singapore) is a multidisciplinary artist working across ceramics, sculpture, animation, and installation. Chin’s work has been shown internationally at institutions and exhibitions including the Liverpool Biennial (United Kingdom), Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London; Humber Street Gallery, Hull; The 8th Triennial of Art and Ecology, Maribor (Slovenia); BALTIC 39, Newcastle; and South London Gallery, London. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany, where she continues to develop projects at the intersection of technology, ecology, and imagination.

Nada Elkalaawy (b. 1995, Egypt) is an artist based in London and Cairo whose practice explores the slippage of images between truth and fiction. She has participated in residencies with Pro Helvetia, Montresso Art Foundation, and L’appartement 22. She has been shortlisted for the Sainsbury Scholarship at the British School at Rome, the ACS Studio Prize, the Contemporary British Painting Prize, the Dentons Art Prize, and the Sarabande Emerging Art Fund. Her work is included in the X Museum collection, Beijing, the Soho House collection, London, and private collections worldwide. She is a co-founder of the artist group K‑oh‑llective.

Abul Hisham (b. 1987, Thrissur, Kerala, India) is a painter and installation artist based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Drawing on Safavid, Mughal, Rajput, and Deccani repertoires, Hisham develops an expressionist vocabulary through portraits and tableaux that are uncanny, riddling, and phantasmagorical. Hisham has held solo exhibitions including Recitation (Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, 2019), New Works (Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, 2014), and DOMINATION (Kashi Art Gallery, 2010). Group exhibitions include An Ocean in Every Drop (JAMEEL Art Centre, Dubai, 2022), De Jacht (Galerie Deschans, Amsterdam, 2022), In the Land of Downside Up (Birla Art Academy, Kolkata, 2019), Nine Painters from Kerala (Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, 2018), and DWELLING, 10th Anniversary Show (Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, 2017). He was a resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (2021–2023) and was awarded the De Schefferprijs in 2024. Hisham is currently exhibiting at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India.

Felipe Romero Beltrán (b. 1992, Bogotá, Colombia) is a photographer and visual artist based in Paris. He holds a PhD in Photography from the Complutense University of Madrid. Romero Beltrán’s work has received significant recognition, including the Prix Photo Elysée (2025), Emerige-CPGA Prize at ARCO Madrid (2024), Prix pour la photographie at Quai Branly (2024), Foam Paul Huf Award and Mapfre Award (2023), and the Aperture Portfolio Prize (2022). He has presented solo exhibitions at institutions such as Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; Carré d’Art, Nîmes; Fundación Mapfre, Madrid and Barcelona; FOAM, Amsterdam; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; and Aperture Foundation, New York. His work is held in public and private collections including Carré d’Art, FOAM, KADIST, Fenix Museum, and Aperture.

Romain Sarrot (b. 1986, Paris, France) is an artist whose practice investigates memory, transformation, and narration through a cyclical, immersive methodology. His work has been presented internationally, including solo exhibitions Quarter of Life I / i miss you once at Lokal-int, Bienne, and Quarter of Departure I / 9:00 AM at VITRINE Gallery, London. Group exhibitions include We All Talk to Our Own Gods, Material Art Fair, Mexico City (2025); Après quoi les limbes, Art and History Museum, Geneva (2024); Las Cicadas, Balearic Islands, Spain (2024); and Infinite Looping in Harmony, Hatch, Paris (2023).

Ayla Tavares (b. 1990, Brazil) investigates archaeological and sacred artifacts, architecture and everyday objects, establishing relations with dikerent layers of time to think about day-to-day life, memory and life in common. Comprehending materiality with all its complexities, the artist creates constellations of objects under other orders, generating from these new bodies relationships of estrangement, speculation and narrative. She held exhibitions "Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials" at Hammer Museum (2026, Los Angeles); "Ustão", at Casa Museu Eva Klabin (2023, Rio de Janeiro); "Alfarería del agua", at the Collegium Museum (2022, Arévalo, Spain); and "Sonantes", at Centro Cultural Light (2019, Rio de Janeiro). Tavares participated in group exhibitions at institutions such as the Jingdezhen International Biennial of Ceramic Art (Jingdezhen, China), Lamb Gallery (London, United Kingdom), Weserhalle Gallery (Berlin, Germany) and Paço Imperial (Rio de Janeiro). She was a resident in the Pivô Research Program (2022, São Paulo).

Laila Tara H (b. 1995) is a British-Iranian artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans painting, textile, sculpture, and installation. Solo and duo shows include ‘Hastan/’هــســـــــــتن (with Narges Mohammadi), Copperfield, London (2023); ‘Twisted toes, tangled ears’ (with Anousha Payne), Public Gallery, London (2022); ‘duck duck goose’, Purdy Hicks, London (2022); ‘Vexilloid’, O Gallery, Tehran (2021); ‘Sky-Circles’ (with Anusheh Zia Siddiqui), Indigo+Madder, London (2021); ‘Am I?’, V.O Curations, London (2021). Residencies include VO Curations (2023/2021); Blank100 Residency (2023); Sarabande: Alexander McQueen Foundation (2023/2022); Casa Balandra (2020); Numeroventi (2020). She has collaborated with brands such as Home of Hai (2023); Mural at The Twenty Two (2022); Drake's, London (2022); Papier (2021). Tara H’s works is foremost included in International collections such as the Kiran Nadar Museum / Scorpion Collection (Delhi, IN) and Taimur Hassan Collection (London, UK).