OUR ARTISTS

LAUREN BAKER

Lauren Baker is a British multidisciplinary artist exhibiting internationally. Her work explores human connection, metaphysics and the expansiveness of the universe. Her signature neon works portray the power of energy through her poetic typographic and celestial chakra artworks. Passionate about environmental issues and sustainability, the artist uses light to express the 'secrets of the universe' and aims to raise the vibration of love and connection within the world. She is an experimental artist whose practice expands across multiple disciplines and mediums to address the vastness of the universe. Conceptually grounded but also aesthetically striking, her work involves making the unseen seen.

NOTABLE MENTIONS

Installations at The V&A, Tate Britain and Tate Modern
Collaboration with BMW Culture X Frieze to launch public light art

EVA LANSKA

Eva Lanska is a filmmaker and a video artist based in London. Her first film was selected by the Cannes Film Festival in 2017 and opened the Russian pavilion of the Cannes Film Festival. Forbes USA, Variety and Jerusalem Post noted her as a promising young director as "One To Watch". She explores the themes social issues in her video and photography. She organized an exhibition with the support of Pace Gallery at the Royal Academy of Arts London. Her latest film “Change History: Women in the Middle East” received more than 20 international awards for the best production and was chosen winner of the "Hollywood Women's Film Institute”.

NOTABLE MENTIONS

Nominated for over 30 major film festivals
Exhibited During the Biennale, April 2022, Palacio Bragadin/ Venice / Visconti Galleries, April 2022, Palacio Bembo /Itsliquid Gallery/ Venice, September 2022

MAXIM ZHESTKOV

Maxim Zhestkov is an artist who examines the connections of physical and digital realities. Divided by a permeable membrane, these two worlds exist in a constant exchange and redefine one another. Merging architecture, sculpture, color, movement, and sound, the artist combines various channels of perception to develop a distinct universal language to depict complicated concepts and ideas in a succinct yet not scaled down manner. Combining basic geometrical shapes — dots, spheres, and planes — Zhestkov creates intricate and hypnotic visual stories centralized on objects in their volume, detail, and beauty of movement.

NOTABLE EXHIBITIONS

Christie’s, New York, 2022
Decentral Art Pavillion, Venice, 2022
Shanghai Modern Art Museum, 2019

MICHAEL BENISTY

Michael Benisty is best known for larger-than-life sculptures. He combines spirituality, nature, the human form, and mysticism in his work. The artist worked as an editorial photographer for publications such as Architectural Digest and Whitewall Magazine before learning traditional Chinese metalworking techniques at a foundry in Shanghai. In 2012 he collaborated with Nadja Swarovski to create an eight foot stainless steel skull that was adorned with 350,000 black Swarovski crystals. The sculpture was presented at Art Basel in Miami Beach and sold for for $200k. While developing a mastery of sculptural work, he shifted his focus to themes of love, peace, empathy and enlightenment.

NOTABLE COLLECTIONS

Larry Page
Elon Musk

NOAH BECKER

Noah Becker is a musician, painter and producer. He was born in Munich, grew up in Miami, and currently lives and works in Berlin. Abstract and large format paintings on canvas are one of Noah's trademarks. On canvas he paints maps of environments he spends time in, people he meets and ideas he develops - feelings and experiences of memories, smells, and music. In recent years Noah has had numerous solo exhibitions in Berlin, Los Angeles, Salzburg, Mallorca and during the prestigious Art Basel Miami, which he often combines with live performances and young artists.

“My paintings always start with music. When I hear music I see colours, and I zone out on a canvas with whatever I find around me; chalk, spray paint, acrylic, tape or markers are the materials I use most frequently”.

SHYGLO

Born in Toronto, Shyglo currently resides in the US spending his time between New York and Miami. Originally starting off his career as a graffiti artist and seeing his works painted over, he decided to transition his talents into fine art. Shyglo's photorealistic oil paintings combined with his neon signs has quickly made him known in the art world for his unique style. Shyglo's art has been commissioned for many brands from SBE to be placed throughout their iconic nightclub The Florida Room at The Delano Hotel in South Beach, and the Sagamore Hotel in Miami Beach. His paintings with neon lights can be seen in galleries and art fairs around the world including Buzz Art Auction, Scope Art Fair Miami and NYC, State Of Kid in the Miami Design District, Belvedere Art Gallery in Downtown Beirut, and Royal Street Fine Art Aspen Colorado to name a few.

NOTABLE COLLECTIONS

Tommy Hilfiger
Yang Kun
Chris Bosh

SKYGOLPE

Skygolpe is one of the leading artists in the NFT space. His practice mixes different digital and analogue elements to achieve a hybrid result that lives in a middle ground between the virtual and real dimensions (mixed reality). His paintings are obtained by superimposing different layers of physical and digital painting. The acrylic paint deposited on the canvas is confronted with different underlying materials and patterns generating a dialogue that breaks a precise pattern of mono-thematic definition of painting to embrace new formal and heterogeneous solutions. Each work is constructed as a “desktop” in which fragments of other references are mixed, generating comparisons and juxtapositions, revising a gestural approach. The canvases thus comprise a process that generates “errors” and unexpected results that combine to form the composition of the final painting. Occupying seemingly provisional positions in the gallery space, his installations aggregate different elements and contexts related to digital culture, rejecting the rhetoric of closed meanings to draw rather on a more open debate about the digital and its influence within everyday life.

MARINEL SHEU

Marinel Sheu aka CEO of VIBE ( born 1996 ) is an Albanian artist based in Dublin, He is known for his signature sunflower artworks or the cinematic evening sunset. You cannot help but notice his unique colour palette and details that make every artwork special. His portfolio is big and ever-expanding. Marinel creates at a consistent and steady pace. He makes sure to stop and smell the flowers but never gets distracted for too long. He tells me in his own words: “I like to experiment, I like to play around. My inner child makes it almost impossible for me to experience art-block!” Marinel’s art has been acknowledged and appreciated globally as he has worked for many worldwide corporations and has been published by important art magazines. Among them, we can mention: ‘It’s Nice That’, Arsham Studios, Disney, Gucci, Netflix and Vice. When asked for his source of inspiration, he finds it hard.

WHISBE

Contemporary artist WhIsBe has established a formidable reputation in both the world of street art but also the mainstream art world encompassing the museum, gallery and arena of public installations. He's now one of the most successful artists with $11.6m in sales YTD and up to seven figure individual sales, including sales at Sotheby's and Christie’s. WhIsBe is best known for producing jarring social commentary by placing innocuous imagery within a provocative context.

NOTABLE EXHIBITIONS

Art Basel, Hong Kong, 2019
Scope, New York, 2019
World Trade Centre, New York, 2017

PROJECT AIKIDO

The essence of Project Aikido is to provide a platform for African Art to be shown globally through the Burning Man project. Hopefully this will lead the way for other African artists to one day replicate what we are looking to Achieve at Burning man in 2022.

If we look at the Project on a micro level, the people working for Usha come from poor backgrounds, some are disabled, and here they are given an opportunity to contribute to a project that will receive global recognition. Aikido is translated as the “way of unifying with life energy”, and that’s what the essence of our project is, bringing people in harmony together. It’s reflected in the charity we decided to attach to our project, Sibikwa, a not for profit that brings the arts to reach historically disadvantaged communities and youth at risk. It is a visionary arts centre that promotes arts education, performance, vocational training and job creation, concentrating on cultural heritage, and we’ve pledged that a portion of all proceeds made from all the fundraisers will go towards the charity.