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“I pull the symbolic scalp of their face. Then after modifications, I put it on”. Zbiok Czajkowski captures the shells and masks of people who were by chance caught in old photographs, and in his recent series “Scalps” he perfects his method with his mastery of airbrush. Read today’s interview to find out what lies beneath the surface.
Patrycia Pietka’s oil paintings dive into the intersections of spirituality, folklore, and female energy. Beyond her masterful form, the Polish artist, inspired by magical-realist and surrealist cinema, uses her works to capture the fleeting beauty of loved ones who passed away. Read today’s interview to learn about her process, inspirations and plans for the future.
Amy Dury turns vintage photography into contemporary art pieces. Taking inspiration from the troves of human archives both analogue and digital, the acclaimed British painter employs her signature bold contrasts to create works that balance a calming nostalgia with unsettling undertones. Read today’s extended interview to learn about Amy’s creative process, influences, and views on the art world!
“When working on matter, you work on yourself.” Influenced by alchemy, religion, and psychology, Eliott Gamer’s animations and tattoo art are his favorite tool for introspection. Enter his world and let his work with the human body illuminate your journey to the center of the labyrinth inside.
Sergiu Ciochină’s latest series of paintings explores human vulnerability and anxiety in his signature surrealist expressionism. The Moldovan artist’s realms come into being through his strokes of gentleness and empathy, and we invite you today to enter them and let your worries fade away.
István Máriás’ artworks feature playful juxtapositions interspersed with uncanny hues and unsettling elements. Drawing on mysticism and romanticism, the Romanian artist utilizes diverse mediums and surfaces, including ceramic tiles. Read today’s feature to learn about István’s creative history and process, and why he prefers analog expression over the digital.
Honeylambs Mission is back! Our previous feature on Ernesto Stewart and his singular project became SWARM Mag's historically most viewed article. We caught up with the artist two years later to learn what's new in his sanctuary for disfigured and mutated plushies, inhabited by the souls of the deceased.
Tina Hrevušova has mastered the art of finding beauty in the moments of abject transformation. In exploring evolution in all its forms and angles, the interdisciplinary artist finds the borders of the known and improvises on what lies on the other side. Read today’s interview to learn about her artistic journey, recent exhibition, and why she chooses images over words.
Through a kaleidoscope of neon and flux, exiled artist Liza crafts comics defying tyranny and perception itself. Her work, shaped by face-blindness, asks: In a world of constant change, what truths can we recognize? With "Purple Empire," she paints rebellion in hues of human resilience. Read today’s feature to learn about her influences, creative process, and prosopagnosia.
Larissa Honsek is a creative director, 3D and clay artist, and author of the most adorable characters for kids and adults alike. In the interview with the creator below, we discuss how she keeps on being artistically amazed by her little daughter's “fresh brain”, her deep love of Berlin or how her multi-media style painstakingly emerged.
“It's impossible to get bored with ceramics.” Markéta Špundová is a Czech ceramics designer whose whimsical and delightfuly chaotic body of work overflows with cheeky humour and unexpected references. With the artist, we talked the malleable and mirroring nature of ceramics, balancing practicality and storytelling, jolting awake with sour candy, and more.
Digital illustration and animation were the missing pieces for Aliina Kauranne’s expression. In her works, the acclaimed Finnish artist conjures up sequences and images which explore identity and nostalgia, be it through surreal visions or absolutely pampered boots. Read today’s feature to learn about Aliina’s changing relationship to art, global brands, and the Spice Girls.
Aleksandra Bokova’s works are a vivid answer to a post-Soviet upbringing. In her 3D art and animations, the acclaimed Belarusian artist explores disturbing feelings and perplexing emotions to overcome them, creating pieces that are equally relatable and confusing. Explore today’s feature to learn about her inspirations, and how she uses cutting-edge technology to project her vision.
“In general, people stay much longer at raves than in a gallery.” The Slovak creative duo behind AUSGANG Studio, Alex Zelina and Radovan Dranga, craft menacing and sometimes unsettling sculptures and mobile installations from materials typically considered waste with an occasional AI crossover. You can run into these in a gallery or, unexpectedly, at a dim dancefloor.
“The feeling of having enough time, the luxury of boredom, is very important to me when making art,” quips Bronislava Orlická, the idiosyncratic Czech painter and tattoo artist, whose iconic gradient “flames” adorn countless limbs and torsos across the world. The scope of her artistic practice is broad: from the aforementioned tattoos to large-scale paintings to machine knitting. Get to know her below.
Kaja Horvat’s esoteric illustrations depict hidden realities that tap into the collective unconscious. In exploring these psychedelic utopias, the young Slovenian artist uses her masterful form to re-find that sense of wonder one feels all too rarely. Today, Kaja brings it back, and sheds light on her artistic journey and inspirations.
Matej Stetiar’s signature paintings explore the marks we all leave in the world and how memories transform with time. Fascinated by the processes of human meaning-making, he creates canvases of possibilities in which everyone can find their own constellations. Read today’s interview to learn more about the emerging Czech artist’s style and insights into consciousness, relativity, and perception of reality.
In her artistic trajectory, Dan Yang’s works trace themes of ancient ancestry, spiritual transformation, and all that is uncanny. Through installations and objects, the Chinese multidisciplinary artist explores her mythic visions of the otherness of human bodies subjected to natural cycles that climax in apocalyptic decimation.
Czech filmmaker and audiovisual artist Eliška Lubojatzká introduces two video poems: Dryaarisi and Zagovory. One after another, they lure us to into a semi-tangible, semi-transient landscapes that are explored and experienced by a dryad, and into a spell-casting phenomenon laden with Slavic folklore and verbal folk magic.
Form, movement, and materials are the tools of Diana Orving’s trade: the Swedish textile artist expresses herself through a dynamic interplay of techniques, material choreographies and animism to find the interconnectedness of all things and beings.