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Gallery 17
BIEAF2025 - The Lost Center
World Artist Invitation Exhibition
BIEAF Steering Committee announces BIEAF2025 participants. 641 artists were selected from 80 countries. The online exhibition will run from September 10, 2025 to February 28, 2026. During this period, offline exhibitions will be held at various galleries in Busan.
Gallery 01 Artists and Works Slide * You can mark hearts on your favorite artists and works.

BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Miji Kim
Korea
Miji Kim continues her painting practice centered on the flow of sensation and emotional color. Through layered hues and traces of brushstrokes, she evokes abstract blossoms of perception, unfolding everyday emotions and the energy of nature onto the canvas. She is currently based in Busan.


In the flower garden 2025
Acrylic on canvas / 10F /2025
《In the flower garden》은 강렬한 붉은빛과 분홍의 흐름 속에서 꽃의 감각을 추상적으로 표현한 작품입니다. 형태보다 감정과 에너지에 집중하여, 꽃밭 속에서 느껴지는 생명력과 감각의 확장을 시각화했습니다. 분출하듯 터지는 색과 붓질은 관람자에게 자연의 생동감과 정서를 동시에 전하며, 상상의 꽃밭을 거니는 듯한 몰입을 유도합니다.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Mijung Park
Korea
I'm Park Mi-jung, a Western painter in Seoul. We are experiencing difficulties due to climate change around the world, and we accidentally realized that preserving whales is protecting the environment. In Korea, flowers are blooming at different times than usual due to temperature changes, and the places where fruits grow are changing, so even human food is changing. Looking at the changes in the blooming period of flowers due to climate change, I thought that there would be a time when I would not be able to see these flowers walking around and seeing them, and recently, I have been working on endangered species and natural monuments along with flowers I see in my daily life.

피오니
Oil on canvas /49.8x49.8cm/2021
Due to environmental changes, there are several problems with the growth of flowers. Climate change has changed temperature, precipitation, and seasonal patterns, changing the flowering period, and native plants are losing their habitat. The invasion of exotic species is causing an imbalance in the ecosystem. To protect this, continuous efforts and policies are needed to restore habitats, strengthen research to preserve native plants, control exotic species, and combat climate change. In addition, we will need to explore and work together on education and participation activities that can raise the awareness of environmental protection among individuals. I hope that more attention to my flower paintings and endangered species of plants can be a small seed for the community's awareness of environmental change. This work wanted to contain the continuous need for attention and surveillance of the current environment to express the beauty of flowers through painting and to see their beauty in everyday life. If you don't try, it will be difficult to encounter flowers that are common around you.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Mila Ortuño
Spain
Tell us about BIEAF2025 'The Lost Center - Art in Crisis' :
I've chosen this work, in which I bring that lost center into the personal. My work as an artist always stems from my own experience, from the personal search for that center, that balance from which to generate a discourse about the very process of finding oneself.


Personal Universe
Photo montage/ 160x90/2018
The work is composed of two pieces in which the main sphere and the winged
shadow form a duality. All the elements of the photomontage are edited photographs. The central image is the silhouette of a shadow projected onto the ground. The work represents an escape from the planet to more personal planes where one can find inner peace.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Mileton Araneta
Philippines
Artist Is a self-taught artist who graduated from Technological University of the Philippines-Visayas. Mel is a Soundartist, sculptor, performance artist and a painter. He creates the expiremental soundart band ETNIKTRONIKA who make their DIY instruments and sculptural sonic assemblage. Araneta also conducts art seminars and workshops wherein he shares his different views and opinions regarding his many artistic endeavors.

Planet of the pangit
Acrylic/4x4ft/2024
Planet of the pangit reflect in everyday life


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Min seo Kim
Korea
작업에 매진하는 과정에서 자아정체성을 찾아 가기 위해 매 순간 매진하고 있습니다. 사회복지에 종사하면서 배움과 경험으로 작가로 성장할 수 계기가 될 수 있도록 열정을 불태우고 있습니다.

Over there
oil on canvas 53.0x45.5cm 2022
고독의 극복을 심상화된 자연이미지를 통해 가능하다. 자연에 대한 예술적 상상력을 통해 인간성을 회복할 수 있다. 예측할 수 없는 불안과 허무로 무의식적으로 빠져든다. 끝없는 중첩을 통해 마침내 통로를 찾았다.
저 너머에.....
인간은 자연으로 회귀한다.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
LEE MIN SUN
Korea
민의 일상을 걷는 자연의 기록자
새벽녘 이슬이 맺히는 순간, 해가 지며 하루를 덮는 빛.
저 는 그 고요한 감동을 따라, 카메라 셔터를 누릅니다.
자연과 함께하는 일상은 저에게 가장 깊은 위로였고,
이번 전시는 그 위로의 조각들을 담은 소박한 기록입니다.

한 송이의 용기
사진 한지출력 2025년 27×21
가장 작고 여린 것에서 가장 깊은 울림이 시작됩니다.
중심에 선 이 작은 꽃은 삶의 의미, 존재의 가치를 이야기합니다.
눈에 띄지 않지만, 잊히지 않는 - 존재의 아름다움


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
MINA CHUNG
Korea
1973년 서울에서 출생하여, 홍익대학교 동양화과 석사졸업을 하였다. 대한민국 구 상 및 추상미술작가로 , , 시리즈로 활발한 전시를 보여주고 있다. 평면회화에서 구상 및 추상미술을 주로 하 는 작품 활동을 진행하고 있다. 대표작품은 , , 등이 있다. 다수의 기획전, 개인전, 그룹전 등에 참여하면서, 그 외에도 경희대학교 k컬쳐 아티스트 연구소에 참여하여 다른 작가와 교류 및 활동을 하고 있 다.


달에 그리다 -밤 청계천
oil paint/72.7x53cm/2025
시리즈는 의 초기 작품이 현재까지 확장 발전되어 진행되고 있는 작업이다. 공간 안의 자연 대상 및 그에 대한 개인적인 심적 감각에 대한 탐구를 노닐다(遊)는 행위로써 표현하는 작업이다. 그 중 시리즈는 하늘을 좋아해서 자주 바라보는 나의 습관에서 시작된 초기작업이다. 하늘과 달, 별을 바라볼 때 물(物)과 아(我)의 경계가 모호해지는 느낌을 받게 된다. 경계의 모호함은 장자의 호접몽을 연상시키기도 하고, 내 안에 작은 공(空)의 감각이 발현되기도 한다, 공의 감각 안에서 遊할 때는 대상이 나와 같다는 느낌을 받을 때도 종종 있다. 특히 내가 좋아하는 皓(맑을 호)색의 달은 나에겐 경건한, 숭고의 대상으로 늘 다가오곤 했다. 작업 과정 중에 하늘과 달, 별을 그려나가면서 편안함과 고요해지는 느낌을 갖게 된다.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Son Minkwang
Korea
Healing scenes obtained from nature are produced and drawn with images that combine directly or indirectly experienced nature and various floating elements that metaphorize communication with nature.
Art Lab Exhibition - Participation of many exhibitions other than Lee Eung-no Art Museum M2 and other solo exhibitions, participation of many exhibitions of invited artists at the 2024 Gwanghwamun International Art Festival

화창한 어느 날 23060-2
캔버스에 아크릴채색 /116.8X91cm / 2025
Healing scenes obtained from nature are produced and drawn with images that combine directly or indirectly experienced nature and various floating elements that metaphorize communication with nature.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Minna Tuohisto-Kokko
Finland
Minna Tuohisto-Kokko is a Finnish glass artist. Her works have been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries both in Finland and abroad. She has received several awards for her contributions to glass art. She is fascinated by different cultures and religions, nature, colors, music and shapes.

Vivacidad
Sculpture, mirror glass/68x27x10 cm/ 2024
I am fascinated by the shapes and colors found in nature. I have always had a particular appreciation for cactus. This artwork was created using mirror glass, cut and assembled using the mosaic technique. "Vivacidad" is Spanish and it means liveliness and vitality.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Mitra Sadat Amini
Iran
An Iranian conceptual photographer whose work centers on the human form and existential themes. Her surreal editing style and symbolic language explore inner conflict and ambiguity. Her works have been featured in over 70 international exhibitions and competitions worldwide.

Piece of peace, inner peace
Photography 50x70 cm 2025
Caption artwork
a broken mirror reflects the head of Buddaha, symbolizing the tension between inner peace and a fragmented world. in today's fast paced, mechanical life we must pause and reconnect with ourselves. only through inner calm we can rebuild a meaningful bond with nature. Rebuilding the self is the first step toward peaceful coexistence with the world.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Mohaimin Sultana Miva
Bangladesh
A self-taught 19 year-old artist who express stories through surreal symbolic illustrations. My both traditional & digitally hand-painted works explore emotional depth, nature, and identity which have received national and international awards, including having exhibitions in Japan, India, and the USA.

The Weight of Wisdom in Violet Silence
Digital illustration/ 16.88 cm × 20.83cm / 2025
This artwork reflects the spiritual crisis of harmony between nature and human wisdom. An owl stands wounded on a thorned rose in bleeding on feathers & petals, representing the pain of awareness and emotional collapse. While surrounded by floating jellyfish and a butterfly in violet silencesymbolizes vanishing fragility and fading ecosystems. This piece speaks to nature's silent suffering that the world forgets to notice.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Mohamed Sahnoun
Tunisia
Description of the work 'letters' :
This artwork represents the intersection of authenticity and innovation in a unique visual scene that embodies the evolution of the Arabic letter from written symbols to a contemporary artistic language. The upper part features a rectangle reminiscent of an ancient tablet, from which columns or ribbons gracefully descend and merge below with curved, abstractly carved Arabic letters, giving the impression of continuous dynamic movement. The artist
manipulates these letters so that they become more than decorative elements; they express the depth of heritage and the spirit of modernity at the same time. The piece embodies the journey of the Arabic letter through time, blending traditional calligraphic techniques with modern sculpture. The columns stretching from the upper rectangle to the lower formation symbolize the connection between past and present, and the fusion of the spiritual and the material, offering viewers an opportunity to contemplate the ongoing interaction between artistic memory and contemporary visual experience.

letters
Sculpture, wood/70x70cm/2023


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Mohamed Sleiman Labat
Algeria
The center is everywhere and nowhere, the narrative of local and global
created a dangerous gap and a dangerous class of who's in the center a d who
is in the periphery. The story of mineral displacement can challenge that
notion of local and global, and the center.
Mohamed Sleiman Labat is a Sahrawi multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker and writer. Born and raised in the Sahrawi refugee camps in southwest Algeria, he now runs Motif Art Studio; a small art space built entirely from discarded materials following destructive floods that hit the refugee camps in 2015. His art draws upon the past & present life of the Sahrawi people through different art practices including films, writing & community-based art. Following a three-year artistic research project of PHOSfate in Finland, which dealt with phosphate and its impact on two different environments; the Baltic Sea and Western Sahara, he is now devoting more time and effort to research and practice local food growth, different social and ecological practices in his community in the Hamada Desert.


DESERT PHOSfate
Video installation/58 minutes/2023
DESERT PHOSfate is an artist film that tells about the impact of phosphate on the Sahrawi people and its fate, including the surprising emergence of family gardens and the knowledge of how to farm in the desert without the processed phosphorus that had caused the dislocation of the Sahrawi nomads from their homeland of Western Sahara. It weaves through the story of phosphate, exploring the multi-layered narrations about connections to land, sand particles, plants, human and mineral displacement.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Molood Jannesari
Iran
“The Lost Center” feels painfully familiar. It’s that sense of disconnection we all carry — from the Earth, from each other, even from ourselves. Somewhere along the way, in the noise and speed of modern life, we’ve forgotten how to listen, how to feel rooted.
That’s where art matters. It doesn’t give us answers — it gives us space. Space to feel, to remember, to grieve, to imagine. Art can reach the parts of us that statistics or speeches can’t. It can quietly remind us of what we’ve lost — and why it’s worth finding again.
My own work tries to open that kind of space. Through visual metaphors of nature and the human body, I explore how we might return — not to the past, but to something deeper. Art can’t save the world. But maybe it can help us care enough to try.
Molood Jannesari is an international contemporary visual artist. After studying a wide range of disciplines—including performing arts, music, and animation—Molood ultimately embraced digital art as her primary medium for expressing her thoughts and emotions. Her artistic vision is deeply inspired by themes such as philosophy, the collective unconscious, feminine psychology, humanity, empathy, nature, mythology, and ancient tales. The intricate interplay of these subjects is powerfully evident in her work. She weaves her emotional experiences into these themes like threads in a tapestry, crafting artworks that narrate the depths of human feeling. Her creations do not merely illustrate concepts—they evoke the emotional and psychological essence of human experience. By participating in exhibitions and international competitions across the United States and in various countries such as Germany, Italy, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Turkey, China, Taiwan, and South Korea, Molood has firmly established herself within the global art community. She channels the deep layers of the human unconscious to explore the most profound and universal questions, particularly those surrounding the lives and inner worlds of women. As a recipient of the prestigious "Highly Commanded Artist" from the Homiens Prize, Molood has achieved significant recognition and awards within the professional art world. Her work and interviews have been widely featured in leading international publications from the United States, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.

Where the roots remember
Digital painting/ 150 ×74 cm /2024
In an age where humanity has drifted dangerously far from its ecological and emotional center, this work explores the longing for reconnection — a visual meditation on the “lost center.” The central figure, a woman intertwined with roots and organic textures, reflects the blurred boundaries between human and nature. Her transformation suggests both decay and renewal, evoking a world where the lines between destruction and healing are no longer clear. She is not just an individual, but a symbol of our collective dislocation from nature, from community, and from the Earth itself. In her quiet grief, there is a hidden strength — the kind that grows when everything else falls apart. Her skin is cracked like dry earth, yet life pushes through in tendrils. This image asks: Can we find our center again, not in domination over nature, but in becoming part of it once more?


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Momoroy YU Hyunmin
Korea
그림그리는 고슴도치 엄마, 모모로이입니다. 어릴때부터 그림그리기를 좋아해서 장래희망이 화가였습니다. 예고를 졸업하고 대학에서 시각디자인 전공, 졸업 후 디자이너로 열심히 활동하였습니다. 대원 졸업후 만화예술과 강의를 하면서 자연스럽게 카툰, 일러스트레이션 작업을 하였고 이후 작은 고슴도치와 가족이 되면서 현재는 그림 그리는 고슴도치 엄마가 되었습니 다. 장래희망이었던 '화가'라는 단어가 주는 무게감이 커서 저의 장래희망은 지금도 현재진행형이며 그림을 계속 그리게 되는 원동력이기도 합니다.

A little peace
acrylic on canvas/116.8x91cm/2025
따스한 위로의 시간, 그리고 찾아오는 작은 평화. 반려동물과의 일상을 통해, 인지하지 못했던 생의 즐거움과 평화로움에 대해 현실 과 상상을 넘나들며 이야기합니다. 이것은 행복을 느끼는 저의 일상이기도 하고 동 시에 그림을 통해 들려주고자 하는 메시지이기도 합니다. 작품에 등장하는 반려동 물은 저의 내면을 변화시킨 존재이며 누구에게나 이러한 대상이 있다고 생각합니 다. 가족, 연인, 친구와 같은 상징적인 존재의 표현이며 또한 저의 페르소나이기도 합 니다. 각각의 그림마다 '향기(aroma)' 혹은 ‘바람(breeze)’이라는 모티브를 통해 보 이지 않는 공기의 흐름을 보여주고 있습니다. 볼 수는 없지만 느낄 수 있는 후각적, 촉각적 정서는 휴식 같은 추억에서 바람(wish)으로 행복에 대한 성찰이 될 것입니 다.



African tribal girl /Protected life /Lanna Thai Saints
watercolor on paper 31X41cm 2024
My watercolor paintings are a unique style that emphasizes the physical
realism of the human being in the form of watercolor paintings, both
emotionally and emotionally.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Monica Jain Goyal
India


We are the world
Acrylic painting size- 15"×22"
I am a self taught contemporary artist from India. My artwork title is "We are the World". We may have different religions, different colored skin, different languages, different traditional values but we all belong to one human race. We all are one. My painting reflects the beautiful culture of different regions. In this painting the Earth represents the beautiful world and the hands around it represent unity of diversity. My artwork gives a message to everyone to respect the people's different cultures, traditions and languages, you can also see in this painting, the people of different countries wearing their traditional outfits. my painting also represents "The woman empowerment". My painting represent the beauty of the diversity.
Monica Jain Goyal : Education - M.Sc. Bio - I am a self taught contemporary artist from India, I was interested in art since childhood, gradually I got inspiration to express my feelings in the form of art from the atmosphere around me. My paintings give the message of saving ancient heritage, social issues and preserving the environment. I have participated in many national and international online and offline art exhibitions(Poland, Hungary , Italy, Peru , South Korea) cultural events ,and won many awards for my paintings.My favourite medium of painting are acrylic and water colours .My artworks have been published in e magazines " Namaste India magazine" India , Inspirational 83 art magazine, England .


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Monica Sarmiento Archer
United States
Mónica Sarmiento-Archer, Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Complutense University in Madrid; a Master’s degrees in Literature and Art from St. John’s University. Adjunct Professor at Hofstra University, New York. She have a second doctorate in Literature at the University of Alicante, Spain. teaches at Hofstra and Adelphi Universities in New York. She is co-director of the Multidisciplinary Journal Puente Atlantico of Aldeeu: Association of Spanish Graduates and Doctors in the United States. As director of bi/Coa: Intercultural Base / Community of the Americas. Monica actively participates in research on literature, art and, person-centered health, and is an expert on the processes of coloring stainless steel. Published work: Babel: Multilingual Poetry, Can down, Calm (Officine Pindariche Ed, 2024.); Colección de Poesía Iberoamericana, Ciudad de México (Konesh Arte y Cultura, 2023); The Americas Poetry Festival of New York (Artepoetica Press, 2023); Brota El sonido - Haikus (El Ángel Editor, 2022); Octámbulos (Alphas&Betas Collection, El Ángel Editor, 2022); Puentes / Bridges: Antología de Narrativa (Hybrid Editions, New York 2022); Continuo Discontinuo Continúo (El Ángel Editor, 2020); Epsilon Kappa, St. John University, 2013). Monica’s art is in the following expo and collections: Palazzo Pisani-Revedin Cultural Center. Casa de America Madrid, Arthur K. Watson Library of the Metropolitan Museum; The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 2019; MoMA Museum Library; José Luis Cuevas Museum, Mexico, 2017; Royal House of Spain; Museo del Barro, Paraguay, 2012; MOLAA Museum of Latin American Art, California, 2008; City Museum, Valencia, Spain, 2007. In 2012 Monica was awarded the Royal and Distinguished Spanish Order of Charles III. In 2006 she represented Latin America at the 60th anniversary of UNESCO in Valencia, Spain. Member of ALDEEU, Junior Board of Queens Council of the Arts, and The Art Students League of New York. See activities at (www.bicoa.org).


Tree-Leaf
Colored stainless steel / 50x50cm / 2015
Artistic Philosophy
Mónica Sarmiento Castillo’s work emerges from a deep connection with the structural essence of the natural world and a reflective critique of the modern era. Born in Loja, Ecuador, and rooted in a vibrant ancestral heritage, she draws on cultural memory and nature as sources of inspiration, creating a visual language where tradition and innovation intersect.
Her art invites viewers to reconnect with the origins of life. Through intense observation and intellectual exploration, she transforms geometric and organic forms into compositions that pulse with vitality. These forms evolve from her preliminary sketches into dynamic visual narratives where time appears suspended—space, line, light, and texture converging into cohesive, contemplative works.
Sarmiento’s creations are infused with ancestral rhythms and cosmic energy. Her distinctive style reflects a “constructive primitivism”—a synthesis of pre-Columbian abstraction and natural elements such as leaves, trees, or branches. These motifs are not merely decorative; they are symbolic anchors, reminding us of the perpetual cycle of life, death, and regeneration.
Over the years, her work has expanded to include the human figure, subtly integrating it into the natural world. This evolution explores existential dualities—presence and absence, emotion and reason, immanence and transcendence—revealing the intimate links between humankind and nature. Through this dialogue, she proposes a symbiotic vision of coexistence and harmony.
Her multidisciplinary practice—encompassing painting, sculpture, drawing, and graphic arts—expresses a constant drive to uncover hidden structures, invisible textures, and elemental forces. Each piece is an imaginative journey into the spatial and spiritual realms, offering the viewer both mystery and optimism. Her bold chromatic palette and kinetic compositions evoke the vastness of celestial spaces, where the universe becomes both a metaphor and a mirror.
In her art, transformation is central: the natural universe is not static but everchanging, a metamorphic phenomenon that reflects the artist’s own creative process. Mónica Sarmiento Castillo does not simply depict the world—she reimagines it, inviting us to wander through cosmic landscapes where ancestral memory and contemporary insight merge.
Her work is a living affirmation of knowledge, rooted in culture and driven by the enduring human desire to understand our place in the universe.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Monika Chaberka
Polska
Student of intermedia at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland. Participated in exhibitions abroad. The themes of her works oscillate around word games, double meanings, humor, and the tension between the sign and its meaning. She uses language as a toy, medium, and inspiration.

longing
Photography, 20 x 20 cm, 2025
One of the crises is the moment of realizing the lifespan of objects. How much more often do the things that surround us refer in their history to previous owners and times that have passed irretrievably? In the end, we, too, will leave behind the books we have been collecting all our lives, the flowers we have watered and lovingly tended every day, and a whole heap of trinkets whose stories no one will hear anymore...


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Monika K. Adler
United Kingdom
Monika K. Adler is acclaimed photographer, visual artist and film director known for her challenging and provocative photography and experimental films. Her works have shown in hundreds of photography, video art and film festivals, art museums and galleries worldwide. She lives and works in London.



Chalk-Stone-White
Photography/40x30cm/2014
Seven Sisters, the English Channel. We stand on the beach-head, the sky darkening, suspended in a container of fog, where earlier, they raised a spiderweb of steel-scaffold to block the encroachment of crisis raging across Europe. The remnants of shipwrecks pierce from the waters; mercury and sodium-nitrate leaking from their hulls; essentials of industrialisation and warfare, far more valuable than any human cargo. We breathe in the centuries of blood and salt in the air and feel at home.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Montserrat Riu
Spain
Material painter with exhibitions and material murals in public spaces. She holds a PhD in sound poetry, so her latest murals are both material and sound. She is currently curating an exhibition featuring international poet Joan Brossa. Her work champions the earth and is made with natural earth.



The lost picture
Matter And Fabric/ 73 x 92 cms /2000
In the wild expressionist style of the 80s, it is a painting of a broken human face, because what it wants to denounce is the crisis of art since it is a sector that is falling apart, disappearing, like the face in the painting, which appears destroyed. Like the unfinished and broken brushstrokes of the painting. It is a painting made with natural mortars, sustainable, and that resists the inclemencies of the weather (water, etc.) because it is made with the same materials with which I make my outdoor murals. The mortar is composed of "natural earths," an organic binder, and natural pigments. Everything natural in art is also in crisis and for this reason I remain in my place of defending the sustainable within art because it is a way of defending the earth that gives us life and feeds us.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Moses Idowu Sodipo
Nigeria
I am Moses Idowu Sodipo, a Nigerian visual artist with a passion for portraying the economic, social, and political realities of my society through art. Born in sagamu, Nigeria, I began drawing at the age of six and later pursued a degree in Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Benin, graduating with a secondclass upper in 2015. My works, primarily done in acrylic, focus on advocacy—amplifying the voices of the oppressed and less privileged. I explore themes such as freedom, human rights, identity, and resilience, blending vibrant African motifs with contemporary storytelling. My creative practice aims to inspire awareness, reflection, and dialogue. I have participated in various local and international exhibitions and competitions, earning awards and recognition including from UNESCO, the European Union, and Amnesty International. I also mentor and train young aspiring artists, preparing them for exhibitions and competitions where they have excelled. Through this exhibition, I seek to connect with a global audience, share the stories rooted in African experiences, and contribute to meaningful artistic conversations across cultures.



still carrying the weight
acrylic on canvas/ 100cm by 100cm/ 2024
Description:
Still Carrying the Weight captures the harsh realities of survival in contemporary Nigeria through the lens of a young street vendor—his innocent face weathered by responsibility far beyond his age. Balancing a basin of corn on his head, the child symbolizes millions of Nigerian youths who are forced to shoulder the burdens of a broken system.
In the backdrop, a hauntingly powerful image of Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti appears from the spirit realm, laughing—not out of joy, but from a place of tragic irony. His expression mirrors the bitter fulfillment of prophecy. Years ago, Fela boldly warned the nation through his music and activism about corruption, oppression, and misgovernance. He was mocked, attacked, and dismissed. Now, his ghost laughs at a country still trapped in the very chaos he sang about: fuel scarcity, child labor, economic hardship, and the daily grind of the common man.
The orange-red tones evoke heat, struggle, and urgency, while the scenes of labor and survival in the background highlight the systemic collapse that forces even the youngest into work.
This painting is not just a portrait of a child—it is a social commentary, a historical echo, and a visual lamentation. It challenges viewers to reflect on Nigeria's past warnings and the ongoing consequences of ignoring truthtellers.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Mourad Zoghlami
Tunisie
Architect and artist, I explore a world saturated with signals and disconnection. Through hybrid figures and ever-moving lines, I question the loss of center. My instinctive gesture veils a raw, wounded lucidity beneath the apparent innocence of the line.



Off the Grid
acrylic on canvas -130*105 - 2025
Decentered center, connections without links, signals without direction or landmarks. My figures, hybrid and translucent, float in a world saturated yet empty. Bird feet, disjointed bodies, they seek a matrix, a warmth, a rhythm. They do not catch anything but the essential ; that fragile, tenacious human bond. Even off the grid, they stay together. And that is their strength.
Tell us about BIEAF2025 'The Lost Center - Art in Crisis' :
The great thinker Henri Bergson said:“Art’s purpose is to rouse us from our habitual stupor, to break the frames thatenclose our ordinary perception, and to reveal reality itself, as the artist hasfelt it, as it truly is.”In a destabilized world, where the center, that vital balance between humanity,nature, and the cosmos, has vanished, art becomes an essential compass. Itshatters the crisis of perception, illuminates loss, and opens a path towardreconciliation. Through art, we can rediscover this lost core, this “lost center,”to heal and rebuild our connection to the world.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Muhammad Ramzan Rahimoon
Pakistan
Mr.Rahimoon works at the Karachi Fish Harbor every Sunday. Exploring the lives of the fisherman and their families. He observes their challenges and struggles, finding himself deeply connected to their way of life. An admirer of fisherman, he draws inspiration from the Sindhi poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, especially the verses of Sur Samundi. He attempts to illustrate Shah's verses, capturing the essence of fisherman's lives.

Dream Glow
Oil Painting/91x109cm/2023
A contemplative women sits poised on the ocean's edge, her gaze lost in the
horizon as the sailing ships glide effortlessly across the waves. The painting
captures a moment of introspection, where the vast expanse of the sea meets the depth of human emotion, inviting the viewer to ponder the stories
unfolding beyond the horizon.

Gallery 18
BIEAF2025 - The Lost Center
World Artist Invitation Exhibition
BIEAF Steering Committee announces BIEAF2025 participants. 641 artists were selected from 80 countries. The online exhibition will run from September 10, 2025 to February 28, 2026. During this period, offline exhibitions will be held at various galleries in Busan.
Gallery 01 Artists and Works Slide * You can mark hearts on your favorite artists and works.

BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Muhammad Ziaul Huq
Bangladesh
BIEAF2025 'The Lost Center - Art in Crisis' :
As a participating artist in the 22nd Busan International Environmental Art Festival (BIEAF 2025), I am honored to contribute to this year’s powerful
theme, “The Lost Center – Art in Crisis.” This global platform brings together voices from across cultures to reflect on the urgent environmental and cultural
challenges facing our world. Through my work, I seek to explore the emotional and ecological disconnection that defines our times, while also offering a vision of healing and reconnection. I am grateful to the BIEAF Steering Committee, especially Nargish Soma from Bangladesh, for the invitation and
for fostering a space where art becomes a form of resistance, awareness, and hope.
Artist Introduction: Muhammad Ziaul Huq Muhammad Ziaul Huq is a ultidisciplinary Bangladeshi visual artist, creative consultant, and cultural activist whose artistic journey spans over two decades. A graduate of the Faculty of Fine Art, University of Dhaka, with both BFA and MFA degrees, he blends classical art education with bold contemporary expression. His practice ranges across painting, sculpture, ceramics, installation, interior-exterior art, and digital media. Huq’s creative vision is deeply rooted in socio-political consciousness, environmental awareness, and cultural preservation—evident in his long-standing participation in national movements, art activism, and volunteerism. He has showcased his work in major exhibitions including the Asian Art Biennale, Young Artists’ Exhibitions, and numerous regional art festivals across Bangladesh. Beyond the canvas, Huq serves as the Chief Operations Officer and Creative Head of Thirdeye Communication Ltd., and holds leadership roles in multiple creative ventures and agricultural initiatives. His academic background also includes a Master of Bioethics and Global Public Health from the American University of Sovereign Nations (AUSN), USA, further enriching his art with ethical and global perspectives. Huq’s artistic and activist footprint extends internationally through participation in global conferences, summits, and training workshops across the USA, Europe, and Asia. As a committed member of social and cultural organizations like Bangladesh Charusilpi Sangsad and Citizen Climate Lobby, he remains an active force for change. His practice reflects a rare fusion of creative excellence, humanitarian commitment, and grassroots engagement— making his work resonate far beyond the gallery space. With over 30 countries visited and every district of Bangladesh explored, Huq’s art is as expansive and diverse as his life experiences. Through form, color, and concept, he seeks to inspire reflection, dialogue, and collective action—positioning art as both a mirror and a catalyst in today’s world.

Earth’s Cry, Nature’s Hope
Acrylic on canvas/ 4X4 feet/ 2025
“Earth’s Cry, Nature’s Hope – An Abstract painting This painting, “Earth’s Cry, Nature’s Hope,” is a striking abstract work that explores the duality of environmental crisis and ecological harmony through deeply symbolic, humanized imagery. It is a visual narrative of contrast and balance, illustrating both destruction and regeneration, despair and hope, all centered around a powerful representation of the Earth itself. The composition is vertically divided into two distinct worlds—left and right— each embodied by a human figure whose form merges seamlessly with their surrounding environment. In the center, Earth is held between two hands: one darkened, burnt, and skeletal, emerging from the chaos of pollution and death; the other lush, green, and flowing, supporting the planet in harmony and care. The planet serves as both a literal and metaphorical centerpiece, highlighting humanity’s pivotal role in shaping the fate of the world. The left half, rendered in fiery oranges, deep reds, and ashen browns, represents ecological devastation. Here, the sorrowful face of a woman emerges from plumes of smoke and twisted industrial ruins. Her profile is calm but deeply mournful, suggesting a deep awareness of the loss occurring around her. Her hair becomes part of the smoke, and her body merges with dead trees and polluted rivers. A lifeless fish floats beneath her in toxic water —a stark symbol of aquatic collapse. Everything about this side communicates environmental trauma, irreversible damage, and human responsibility. In contrast, the right half of the painting glows with cool greens and tranquil blues, symbolizing regeneration, peace, and hope. A serene female figure, her eyes closed in spiritual calm, appears intertwined with flourishing leaves and swirling natural forms. Her hair and body become branches and vines, symbolizing unity with the earth. Above her, a white dove takes flight—an ancient symbol of peace and renewal—soaring in a luminous sky that echoes life and possibility. What’s especially striking is the way the two women are not isolated from the planet but are part of it. Their emotional states echo the condition of the Earth itself. This approach blurs the boundary between humanity and nature, a core theme of environmental art. The hands that hold the Earth are not just hands —they are symbols of choice, stewardship, and power. One hand cradles the planet in darkness, the other lifts it in life. The abstract form, expressive brushwork, and symbolic choices deepen the emotional resonance. This is not a literal landscape, but a psychological one— one that demands introspection and action from the viewer. The absence of specific human actions (like planting or cleaning, removed in this version) places the focus entirely on emotional and spiritual states. This makes the painting not about what we do, but who we are in relation to nature. “Earth’s Cry, Nature’s Hope” is more than an artwork—it’s a mirror. It asks each viewer: Which side do you belong to? What kind of imprint will you leave on the planet? In its silence, it speaks volumes—a cry for consciousness, and a call for hope.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Mukesh K. Saini
India
This is Mukesh K. Saini an freelance visual artist from India. I completed M.A. (Drawing and Painting) in 1994 Varshney Mahavidyalaya, Aligarh (Agra University). I participated many various International and National online and offline art exhibitions also got many awards.

Under the Sea
Painting, Dry Pestal colours and pigment
This art work created in 1995 in International art complex Bharat Bhawan, Bhopal (M.P.) in this art show actually under Sea life. I'm always inspired nature environment then create my art in different mediums like drawing, water colours, oil colours, mixed media also lithography,etching etc.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Son Mukgwang
Korea
손묵광(孫默光) 사진가는 한국의 풍경과 문화유산을 주제로 활동하는 저명한 사진가로, 특히 마애불·석탑·절집 같은 우리 문화재를 탁월한 시각으로 기록해온《한국의 마애불 기억록》 등 마애불 사진집을 통해 백제부터 조선 시대까지 한반도 곳곳의 마애불을 흑백으로 기록했습니다. 불교 문화재, 석탑, 절집 등을 재해석한 작업인 《탑–선채로 천년을 살면 무엇이 보일까》 등을 출간했으며, 56회의 개인전과 200회 이상의 단체전에 참여했습니다. 현재는 한국의 산성을, 제주도에서 부터 철원 포천까지 산재한 역사의 흔적을 아카이버 하고 있습니다. 언론사 사진기자 출신(동남일보, 영남일보), 대학과 대학원에서 사진이론 보도 사진 전공자로 출발해, 이후 사진 교육자로 창원대·한국폴리텍대 등에서 후학을 양성하고 있습니다
동시대 미술에서 인간과 문명의 표현은 ‘잃어버린 중심(Lost Center)’의 개념으로 해석됩니다. 이는 근대 이후 가속화된 산업화, 기술 발전, 도시화, 그리고 생태 파괴 속에서 인간과 자연, 사회와 예술 간의 조화가 붕괴되었다는 인식에서 비롯됩니다.
예술은 더 이상 절대적 진리나 보편적 미를 제시하지 않으며, 대신 불확실성, 파편화, 실존적 불안과 같은 감정들을 다루는 매개체로 기능합니다. 작가들은 인간 소외, 정체성의 해체, 환경 파괴, 정보 과잉 등 문명이 초래한 위기의 단면을 시각화함으로써 중심을 잃은 시대의 징후를 드러냅니다.
예를 들어, 폐기물, 디지털 이미지, 인공지능 등 비전통적 매체를 사용하는 작업은 인간 중심의 사고를 넘어서려는 시도로 읽히며, 이는 곧 예술 자체의 중심성마저 의심하게 만듭니다. 결과적으로 동시대 미술은 ‘중심 없는 세계’에서의 탐색이며, 인간과 문명, 자연의 관계를 재구성하려는 시도라 할 수 있습니다.
이는 곧 예술이 중심을 상실한 시대를 비추는 거울이자, 새로운 중심 가능성을 모색하는 실험장임을 의미합니다.

Korean Landscape
Photography, 한지,90x60cm. 2024
손묵광의 ‘한국풍경’ 연작은 한지에 인화한 풍경 사진을 통해 자연의 색과 질감을 조
용히 드러냅니다. 작품 속 안개, 햇살, 산천의 미묘한 변화는 내부의 호흡과 연결되
며, 여백과 수묵적 표현에 기반한 ‘뺄셈의 미학’을 구현합니다 . ‘묵광풍경’이라는 독창적 명칭으로 한국 산천을 담아내며, 디지털 시대 속 아날로그적 태도의 중요성을 강조하고 있습니다.
손묵광 사진가는 한국의 마애불, 석탑, 절집 등 전통 불교문화유산을 주제로 한 깊이
있는 작업으로 주목받고 있습니다. 그의 대표작 《한국의 마애불 기억록》 시리즈
는 백제부터 조선에 이르기까지 전국의 마애불을 찾아 흑백사진으로 기록한 작업입
니다. 이 작품은 단순한 기록을 넘어, 시대와 인간의 흔적을 시적으로 조명합니다.
그의 사진은 주로 한지에 인화되어, 질감과 여백의 미를 극대화하며, 수묵화적인 미
감을 통해 한국 전통미를 현대적으로 재해석합니다. 예를 들어 《탑–선채로 천년을
살면 무엇이 보일까》 시리즈에서는 석탑의 구조미와 시간의 흐름을 한 컷에 응축
해냈습니다.
손 사진가는 단순한 시각 재현이 아닌, 문화유산에 깃든 정신성과 철학을 담아내는
데 중점을 둡니다. 정적인 화면 구성, 빛과 그림자의 섬세한 조율, 그리고 인화 방식
까지 모든 과정이 작가의 미의식을 반영하고 있습니다. 요약하자면, 손묵광의 우리문화유산 사진은 기록과 예술, 정신성과 기술이 어우러진 작업으로, 시각예술을 통해 한국 정신문화를 전달하는 귀중한 시도라 할 수 있습니다.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Lee Mun Kyoung
Korea



하늘아래256
Oil on Canvas/ 91X91 cm/2025
하늘아래 모든 것들은 다양한 색과 형상으로 존재한다. 어울릴 듯 어울리지 못하는 색채와 형상을 함축적으로 표현함으로써 하늘아래 다양하고 복잡한 내면의 세계를 편안함과 안정감을 부여한다.
모든 것을 품고 있는 하늘은 그 아래 복잡하고 혼란스러운 세상을 단순하게 흡수하여 다시 아래 세상으로 아름답게 되돌려 준 풍경을 작가만의 선과 면 그리고 흐름으로 조화의 빛을 시각화 하여 ‘하늘아래 256’을 구상하였다.
이 작품은 어울리지 않을 듯 부조화의 세상들도 하늘과 함께 할 때 아름답게 펼쳐지며 조화롭고 안정감 있게 변화한다. 복잡한 세계관과 시선을 정리하고 품어 주는 하늘을 떠올리며 각자의 혼란도 결국 하나의 풍경이 된다는 믿음으로...


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Lee Myeng joo
Korea
Our daily lives are filled with precious and beautiful moments, much like a single flower. I aimed to capture each day as a blooming flower, expressing this through a bouquet, and all these elements come together to naturally depict the continuity and progression of life. Just like Andersen's 'Stories from the Sand Dunes,' the ever-unfolding scenes of life are as gentle as a calm breeze, as intense as a storm, and as flowing as rippling waves behind them— rich and ever-changing. Within the flower, there are precious meanings that encompass the universe and form the foundation of our homes. The five petals represent the importance of family, and at the center, we hold onto God's Word, the source of life. All these elements embody love, hope, and the continuity of life, beautifully expressing the wish to walk only on the path of flowers




꽃길만 걷자(Let’s walk only on flower paths)
Acrylic on canvas 60.0X60.0 2025.5
Within the flower, there are precious meanings representing the universe and the foundation of our home. The five petals symbolize the importance of family, and at the center, we hold onto God's Word, the source of life. These elements express love, hope, and the continuity of life, beautifully conveying the wish to walk only on a path of flowers.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Myriam Kruisheer Ortega A.
Netherlands
The lost Center - Crisis in Art :
Art offers new conceptual tools for both understanding and avoiding the dangers of our crisis-saturated time: narratives, wars, pandemics. And other factors
In eschatological times, Art has been suffering from a spiritual crisis. It takes the form of the crisis of culture, ways of living, and creative Identity. Art, as the soul of culture, should contribute to a valuable response to the problems of our times.

Water is Life
Acrylic on canvas/ 98X78 cm
Water is Life: Diwani calligraphy that reads "Water is life". In times of crisis,
this image aims to prompt the observer to reflect on the fact that the Earth is our home and water is the essential element for each of us.

BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Sun Myung Ran
Korea
Held 10 solo exhibitions (including 2 at Kyoto Saga Gallery) Participated in numerous overseas and group exhibitions Currently: Member of the Korean Fine Arts Association, Mapo Fine Arts Association, and exclusive artist with Open Gallery

Someday
Oil Painting / 72x90cm /2024
This painting captures a peaceful moment from a life many of us quietly long for. A quiet house, wildflowers blooming freely, laundry fluttering in the wind—simple, ordinary scenes that reflect the beauty of living in harmony with nature. Someday expresses a deep yearning for a slower, more sustainable way of life. I hope this piece offers a moment of calm and reminds us of the quiet power found in everyday simplicity.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Kim Myungkee
Korea
일곱 번째 개인전-조형물이 되는 꿈을 꾸다전(인사아트센터, 서울 2025) 초대전 4회(사상갤러리2005, 용두산미술전시관2007, 화인갤러리2017, P&O갤러 리2018) 부스전 국내외 14회, 단체전 250여회 “김용달 김밝은터 그림인연전” 부산시청 제2전시실, 2025) 지상전-쉬어가는 미술관(월간 바다낚시 2020 8월호) 월간시민시대 표지화(2020 12월호) 현재: 부산사하미술협회명예회장, 세계구족화가협회, 부산미술협회. 부산창작미술 협회, (사)한국전업미술가협회부산지회. (사)대한민국남부현대미술협회, 부산가톨 릭미술인회, 한국미술협회, 부산환경문화연합, 기회의 학숙 회원. 플랜코리아 후원 자

꿈꾸는 이정표-변하지 않는다
Acrylic on canvas/53.0 X 40.9


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Nadia ZOUARI
Tunisia
Nadia Zouari is a French-Tunisian artist whose abstract work explores movement, memory, and resilience. Through intuitive, gestural painting, she reflects on the fragility of our contemporary world. Her practice invites reconnection with what is essential. A recipient of the French Order of Arts and Letters, she lives and works between Paris and Tunis.
BIEAF2025 resonates deeply with my artistic approach. The Lost Center speaks to the fragile state of our world, environmentally, culturally, spiritually. As an artist, I see painting as a space where tension, loss, and rebirth coexist. This biennale offers a rare platform for global artists to respond not with noise, but with presence. I believe art can hold what words can’t, it can embody crisis and still point toward healing.




Fracture in suspension
Acrylic, ink and pigments on canvas / 150 x 150 cm/ 2020
A suspended form between collapse and ascension, this painting evokes a disrupted motion and the search for a center. A quiet resistance to chaos, it invites inner listening and reconnection, a space to feel, imagine, or rebuild what has been lost. The few golden accents scattered across the surface suggest flickers of memory, fragile hope, or silent signals. The painting becomes a slowed-down heartbeat, a deep breath taken in the midst of noise and uncertainty.


The Eternal Tree of Human Life
Acrylic, powder paint, texture, modeling paste, various rhinestones, liquid gold, Digital art. 60x90cm 2025
This piece is part of the Tree of Human Civilization collection. It depicts a tree as beautiful as the civilization of humanity—eternal and everlasting. It serves as a symbol of the bond between humankind and the pristine nature of existence.




Urban scenario
Acrylic/ 100x100, 70x50cm, 70x50cm 2022, 2023, 2024
The artist showcased 3 striking paintings embloying his distinctive fusion of futurism and expressionism. The artworks floods the canvases with a vibrant portrayal mechanized urban life. Both pieces highlight the artist's mastery in using bold colors to convey the influence of modern industrial technology on the urban landscape.


Face and History 6
Acrylic on Canvas, 5x4 feet, 2023
Face is a canvas, and History of a person comes out through their face.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Natasja de Wet
South Africa
Natasja de Wet was born in South Africa in 1968. She is a fine art and graphic design graduate from the Tshwane University of Technology and continued her studies in drawing and painting at the University of South Africa (UNISA). De Wet’s interest in subtly portraying the human psyche in her visual art led her to study Psychophonetics, an approach to psychotherapy and personal development, at Persephone College under Yehuda Tagar. In 2017, she completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art at the Michaelis School of Fine Art (University of Cape Town) under the supervision of Associate Professor Virginia McKenny and Senior Lecturer Fabian Saptouw, and graduated with distinction. In addition, a semester course in Academic Language and Literacy in English, at Unisa, University of South Africa, was completed in 2020. Through her work, De Wet aims to reveal the inner character, or soft underbelly, of humankind. Mixed media, drawing, painting and assemblage enable De Wet to visually contemplate internal experiences such as growth, insecurity, sexuality, flux and the various expressions of the human psyche.

The Materiality of Healing
Sculpture, Gauze, dressmaker pins, found materials, cotton thread, fabric, plastic netting, 80x75cm / 2024
The point of departure for this work is how artistic practice can materially translate and therapeutically engage in possible relief and healing of psychological abuse and its implications such as fear, shame and vulnerability, caused by unequal patriarchal personal relationships and gender inequality in the household of my own family and others. Any form of inequality, whether verbal, financial, emotional or physical that is repeated time and again to intimidate, control and instil fear in women and the family, is a form of psychological abuse. Judith Jordan (2003:5), Valuing Vulnerability: New definitions of Courage. Work in Progress, argues that “In power-imbalanced, non-mutual, or unsafe relationships, vulnerability can become a place of fear and disconnection”. Fear is a debilitating emotion.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Negar Rabeti
Iran
I'm a doctor. But I am very interested in photography and I have been photographing for many years. I enjoy photographing nature and historical monuments, although I haven't participated in many exhibitions so far, but my photos have attracted a lot of attention from artists and galleries, that's why I recently tried to present my works in art exhibitions. Of course, I have been painting since I was a child, because my father is a professional painter, and I liked to paint my mental emotions, and twice in 2005 and 2006, I received the second prize in the art festival of Khuzestan province in Iran. I winnered in the 9th festival of Heagumgang museum in soth Korea 2023 I participated in online residency exhibition by Italian museum 2023 I participated in online exhibition by Ecuador gallery 2023 I participated in the 9th festival of Heagumgang museum in soth Korea 2023 I participated in Fantapia museum in soth Korea 2023 I participated in Iran-Poland joint exhibition 2023 I participated in the University of Indonesia Exhibition 2023 I participated in the online exhibition of Iran and the South Korean Calligraphy Association 2023 I participated in the exhibition of Germany, Italy and Iran 2023

A Treasure of Color and Pattern
Photography 50x70cm 2023
This image showcases a pile of handwoven rugs and kilims beneath a traditional brick ceiling. The rich variety of colors and intricate designs reflect the depth of Persian craftsmanship, with each thread telling a story of culture, tradition, and heritage.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Neli Carlos Luis
Moçambique
Neli Carlos Luis, nascido em 13 de Setembro de 1998 em Búzi (Moçambique), é um artista plástico especializado em escultura. Ele é licenciado em Arte plasticas pelo Instituto Superior de Arte e Cultura (ISArC). Ele enriqueceu a sua jornada através de workshops e festivais artísticos Em Moçambique. Seus trabalhos foram apresentados em várias exposições internacionais, incluindo em Angola, colombia, Tuzla , norte da Macedonia, polonia. Ele explora formas contemporâneas na escultura e Desenho, entre Espiritualismo e imaginação.





Presença do Ausente
Sculpture, Craft, Cerâmica / 56x22,6x21cm / 2023
Presença do ausente é o meio-termo entre o Mundo metafísico e Mundo físico, o encontro entre o ser ausente e o presente, esta reunião cria a sensação de estar diante de um ser, simultaneamente perante a sua ausência consequentemente a sua comparência invisível cria uma memória imaginativa na consciência dos que se mostraram presente fisicamente. este mundo encontra-se codificado para muitos que se mostram presente de forma visível com excepção dos indivíduos que contém capacidade acessar a o mundo invisível. Presença do ausente é o sentimento que o nhamussoro transmite aos presentes enquanto estes assistem e participam nesta cerimónia, uma biografia imaterial do ancestral. Pois esse se apresenta de forma abstracta, com sua presença indirecta a sua forma física não se apresenta no espaço e tempo, de tal forma aquele ser precisará de um ser que se apresente de forma física e que tenha capacidades de romper as fronteiras entre o mundo material e o imaterial, desta feita usará o seu corpo material como o veículo que transportará a mensagem vindo da consciência do ser ausente aos seres presentes nesta dimensão. A presença do ancestral naquele breve tempo é como o vento que sopra, todo ser vivente sente a sua agradável brisa que tranquiliza a alma, e renova a energia do ser. Certamente o vento não é palpável nem se quer visível como no caso de muitos objectos existentes




Flood
Acrylic/90x120cm/2024
Flood Season” reflects the strength and vulnerability of people living with annual floods. Using abstract and Cubist elements, I express resilience and emotion through movement, color, and fluid shapes. The painting is a tribute to nature’s power and human spirit.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Nguyen Thieu Quyen
Vietnam
I am a Vietnamese artist, born in 1963. Although I began my career as an office specialist in global companies, my heart has always belonged to art. Nature— trees, flowers, open fields, people and the peaceful landscapes of my hometown—has been my greatest source of inspiration. Drawing is my true passion. Through every brushstroke, I express the beauty I see around me and discover deeper parts of myself. Painting allows me to reconnect with what is pure and meaningful.


Returning to Nature
Acrylic on canvas /50X50cm/2025 and 50X60cm/2018
The painting portrays a serene water lily pond bathed in shades of blue. Young green water lily leaves float gently, some tinged with hints of purple and touched by the golden glow of sunlight. Others, having changed color, cluster softly on the water’s surface. The clear pond reflects the blue sky and the overhanging treetops, creating a sense of harmony between earth and sky. Amid the sea of green, delicate buds and pink and purple water lily blossoms mirror themselves in the water, evoking a feeling of calm and inviting the viewer into a tranquil, peaceful world—one that soothes the soul and offers a gentle retreat from the chaos of life. My artwork “Returning to Nature” reflects a deep desire to find balance in life —especially after the pressures of crowded cities and the cold, fast pace of digital living. It is a reminder for all of us to cherish and protect the natural world—the fresh green lungs of our planet—especially as we face the harsh realities of climate change.
My artwork “Returning to Nature” reflects a deep desire to find balance in life —especially after the pressures of crowded cities and the cold, fast pace of digital living. It is a reminder for all of us to cherish and protect the natural world—the fresh green lungs of our planet—especially as we face the harsh realities of climate change.
Through my art, I hope to awaken a sense of peace, awareness, and responsibility—to inspire others to return to nature, both around them and within themselves.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Nicole Lubbers
NEDERLAND
This year has been a transformative journey for me—one that began in a place of deep struggle but has led to profound growth and healing. My paintings are born from this inner voyage. Each work is a reflection of emotions I’ve worked through, the pain I’ve faced, and the strength I’ve discovered within myself.
Coming out of a difficult period, I’ve found that art allows me to turn vulnerability into power, and sorrow into beauty. Creating has become both a refuge and a source of inspiration—a way to process the past and shape something meaningful from it.
Through my work, I hope to share not only the intensity of this personal experience, but also the hope and resilience that can emerge when we dare to confront our darkness and transform it into light.

Sea What She Sees
Mixed media 90x90cm 2025

Woman whit the red hair: my cares are over
Mixed media 90x90cm 2025
Through my work, I hope to share not only the intensity of this personal experience, but also the hope and resilience that can emerge when we dare to confront our darkness and transform it into light.


Saint Onoufrios
Egg tempera with gold leaves/35x55cm/2025
I specialise in byzantine icons using the four basic colours. I prefer icons from the 14th to 16th century, and I hold Cretan Iconography close to my heart, which happens to be a significant part of Byzantine Iconography. The icon on display is Saint Onoufrios and it was first created by Emmanuel Tzanet, the Cretan. One of my creations, "Saint Ieronimos with the lion" was recently awarded with an "Award of Excellence" in Trienale Ayia Napa 2025, in Cyprus.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Nimet YALLIALTIN
Türkiye
I create my works on any material I find suitable, such as canvas, paper, cardboard, board, or even fabric, usually using collage techniques and using mixed media. The subject of my works is usually snapshots of people, living things and daily life. Each work is a new problem-solving surface for me. Although it is a design I create in my head or on paper, I mostly follow the spontaneous traces of collage, color and form, completely in the flow of the painting's self-creation process and in a sense, I follow an improvised path. I can call this the painting completing itself through me.

Break
mixed media on canvas, 50×60, 2024
What is a human being, what is the purpose of a human being in today’s world? Will we be able to find what and who we are in the cities we have established as enemies of nature, amidst the chaos, noise and confusion? Is this the ideal goal that humanity has brought us to? There is no limit to the evil and massacre that humans do to humans, nature and our planet. We construct our so-called civilization with wars, massacres and destruction, and we do not recognize any obstacles in reaching our selfish goals. ‘Humans’ are now strangers to themselves and their essence. Isn’t it time to take a ‘break’, to think about ‘who’ we are in the universe, to take stock of what we have done, to understand nature, to listen to nature, to discover and re-interpret our own nature? I am Nimet YALLIALTIN, the name of my work is ‘Break’.
BIEAF2025 'The Lost Center - Art in Crisis' :
We saw but pretended not to see,
We heard but pretended not to hear,
We convinced ourselves of lies,
We lost who we were, the focus of our collective existence..
To seek, to find and to re-interpret..
With hope, with persistence and with art.
Somewhere deep in our minds..


ganggangsulae
Digital Print/40x60/2025
I want to show love and solitude, an agreement among feelings. When ancient poets' poems, ideas, works of art, music that resonate with my feelings, I can find nature, and I can show love and solitude.



BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
NOBUO YOSHIKAWA
Japan
BIEAF2025 'The Lost Center - Art in Crisis' :
The world feels unbalanced, its center seemingly lost. Art, too, is in search of direction, reflecting the dissonance of our times. Ichimatsu Lattice and Planar Perception explores the pursuit of order through geometric forms, opening pathways to new insights. Through BIEAF 2025 in Busan, artists reclaim meaning, offering hope through creative renewal.
Nobuo Yoshikawa, born in Takasaki in 1948, studied at St. Martins College of Art and Design in London in 1975. He has participated in numerous exhibitions, including the KAMAE EXHIBITION(London 1987), "City of Bamboo" (Tokyo 1993), and Daejon Media Art 2000 in Korea. He has exhibited internationally, including in Stockholm, Lausanne, Seoul, and Busan.

Ichimatsu Lattice and Planar Perception
Art print/70cm x 150cm/2025
The synthesis of planes in the figures that I arrange in my head may allow me to find a slit of new sensibility.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Nono Zilahi
Romania
Nono Zilahi is part of the young generation of artists from Romania. Has graduated in 2016 at the University of Fine Arts and Design in Cluj-Napoca, and has received numerous international awards. She organized several international professional art exhibitions and she is a member and brand ambassador of renowned fine art organizations.


Genesis of the Divine - The Ancient of Days and In Search of the Center
mixed media, digital collage/40x30 cm/2025
My artworks - "Genesis of the Divine - The Ancient of Days" and "In Search of the Center" - reflects a longing to return to the lost center. In this disoriented society, we have lost our connection to the Divine Creator.
I believe that the presence of the Divine in our lives is essential, and my works are a reflection on this spiritual truth. We need to find the way to the Center. Inspired by the art of William Blake, I approached the theme in a personal way, using my own visual language.



BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
NORMA MARINA SOLIS ZAVALA
Perú
She was born in C. Campesina de Cochas, Tarma, Peru. Her parents were Gerardo Solis Chachi and Justina Zavala Privat. Her father was her first drawing and painting teacher. She has 18 books published on Amazon and 56 poems set to music. Her desire to paint was rekindled in 2023 by her teacher, Joan Josep Barceló. She loves writing, taking photographs, and painting.

The Dance of the Swans
acrylic paint canvas/30x40cm/2025
The Dance of the Swans: In a world where darkness and chaos reign, a pair of swans are seen enjoying their freedom, dancing among the flowers, fluttering seeds, pollen, and spores with their dance, living beings of a nature that refuses to die. Even in the darkness, there are living beings that shine radiating life.
