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Gallery 07
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
Ernő Bokor
Romania
BIEAF 2025 -'The Lost Center:
Art in Crisis' explores how contemporary art responds to the collapse of central values, shared narratives, and stable reference points in a rapidly changing world.
Erno Bokor was born on June 3, 1933, in Turda, Romania. He pursued his artistic studies at the School of Folk Art, where he earned his diploma in 1985. Since 1990s, he took part in several group exhibitions in Cluj- Napoca and at the Hungarian House in Stockholm. In 2025, his latest solo exhibition opened at the Hidelve Gallery from Cluj-Napoca.

Veduta of Cluj - The Lost Center
Watercolor on paper/21x29/2009
The panoramic view of Cluj-Napoca captures a city suspended betwern historical gravity and contemporary fragmentation. In the context of The Lost Center, this veduta becomes more than a topographic record: it is a visual archaeology of a city that has repeatedly lost and redefined its core. The absence is palpable - not as a void, but a dense, silent presence woven into the urban fabric. Through this lens, Cluj is both map and metaphor.




BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
57' ERZSEBETH PALASTI
Hungary
BIEAF 2025 EVENT CELBRATION:
The crisis of humanity is so deep that everyone must do something to make life on earth better. BIEAF 2025 is fulfilling a very important mission for humanity, using peaceful means, with the power of art.
My artist name: 57' ERZSEBETH PALASTI. I was born on June 5, 1957, in Budapest, Hungary. I graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts with a Diploma with Honors. I have received numerous domestic and international awards. My most important award: ITALY: "Internetional Leonardo Da Vinci Award. I have participated in more 400 exhibitions around the world.

AN ANGEL IS BORN
COLOR PICTURE 80X60cm, 2025
In my painting, nature is reborn from the seed of life, in the form of an angel. Beacuse the angel is a symbol of goodness, purity and truth. Many cultures often depict it and call upon it for help in times of trouble, illness and problems. We can always count on them beacuse they have cosmic power and are the Creator's reliable helpers. The seed of life carries the hope of rebirth and is therefore the source of renewing nature and human life. My picture is an encouragement for the people of the future.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Ismail Esmael bakr
EGYPT
Empathy and Communication for a Better Future: The statement concludes by emphasizing the transformative power of art. It moves from the individual artist's deep inquiry ("question of the source") to universal human connection ("sympathize with his work and communicate with people around the world") with a clear, hopeful purpose ("for a better future"). This gives art a vital, active
role in social change and human progress.
Ismail Bakr is a multifaceted artist who combines creative and administrative roles within the Egyptian art scene. As a photographer and director of the "Gallery Around the World" program, he offers viewers unique insights into art from various corners of the globe. In addition to his media work, Bakr is a distinguished visual artist with his own unique mark in the art world. He is also the organizer of the "Sun Boats" International Exhibitions, playing a pivotal role in bringing international artists to Egypt and fostering cultural and artistic exchange. His contributions don't stop there; he also holds the position of Director of Photography at Egyptian Television, reflecting his extensive experience in visual production and his role in showcasing arts on national screens.



eyes of nature
Photography
This is a natural photograph from the depths of waterfalls in Iceland, showcasing natural formations without human intervention. The textures visible in the image suggest dark and light-colored rock and earth, along with a white, foamy or icy element at the bottom, possibly accompanied by mist or water spray. I can discern what could be interpreted as "eyes" in the image. In the central part of the light brown formation that resembles a fin or a marine creature, there are two small, dark, oval-shaped areas that appear like a pair of eyes. This interpretation gives the overall shape the appearance of a living creature or a face. This phenomenon is known as "pareidolia," where the brain perceives familiar patterns or shapes (such as faces or eyes) in random objects


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Eugene Hyon
USA
"The Lost Center - Art in Crisis" interests me because art, as reflected in the architecture and culture, cannot exist without a balance between what is man made and what is nature. An imbalance must be addressed whenever conflicts occur between the needs of human beings and the stability of the Earth's ecosystems and its resources. The world's resources are not unlimited, and extreme climate changes occur as a response to the rapid depletion of those resources. That is why there is a movement away from fossil fuels to solar, wind and hydroelectric power. They are renewable energy sources that reduce and then eliminate hydrocarbons in the atmosphere that ultimately cause drastic changes in temperature, and the Earth's climates overall. The mining of strategic minerals and the utilization of water are other critical factors that adversely change the Earth's biodiversity. This would ultimately decide the fate of all species of animals and vegetation. The extinction factor becomes a very real existential threat due to climate change worldwide.
I have never before participated in the BIEAF. This is my first time. I'm a New York City photographic artist, and I heard about this art festival on Facebook, so I decided to enter my work. I am a life-long artist and resident of New York and I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan near Columbia University. I take my inspiration from the natural world around me, even though I live in an entirely urban environment. I believe that the man-made world we, as human beings, have created must co-exist peacefully and in harmony with the natural world. There can be no peace unless our man-made communities work and respect the natural environment from which we derive our urban world. We have always been dependent on a stable natural world for the diverse cultures that have evolved due to our presence for thousands of years on this Earth. It appears that stability is being threatened by negative human activities. If Earth ceased to exist today, then all life and all culture would be extinguished. That is the simple truth. There is no culture of any kind without the natural world.

Impact Point
Digital Photo/16X24/2025
My photographic entry is titled "Impact Point". It's an abstraction created by taking a subject out of the normal context of its actual surroundings; in this case, of a piece of aggregated mineral from a museum exhibit, where the surface smoothness reflected a bright ceiling light on the surface of the aggregated mineral. The visual effect reminded me of the cataclysmic meteor blast over the Yucatan Peninsula that resulted in the worldwide extinction of the dinosaurs more than 60 million years ago.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
OH EUI SEOK
Korea
My work has continued from welding scrap metal objects to terracotta made by molding clay and firing it, photo collage made by attaching photographs to everyday objects, environmental sculptures, land art, and natural ecology works. In these various changes in style, the Word has been consistently embodied, and after the period of proclamation and testimony, it has appeared as a dialectical work of truth, and as practical and participatory art. I call the fruits of this work ‘logos-ism’ sculpture, and I will select several works standing on that horizon and exhibit them in line with the theme of the 2025 BIEAF, the loss of the center. I see that at some point, my sculptures have been considering the environment and communication, growing in size and weight, but losing depth of consciousness. It would be a reward and a joy if my work could be
remembered as a challenge to and reversal of the frivolity, loss of soul, and absence of truth that contemporary sculptures have.

For dust you are and to dust you will return
Terracotta/220x150x 80cm/2017
Oh Eui-seok's , subtitled "The Original Creation of Humans and a Formative Exploration of the Future," brings to mind the account in Genesis where the Creator created the heavens and earth by forming a human form out of clay and giving life through his breath. According to this Christian worldview, humans are descendants of clay. When their finite lives end, humans return to clay. Compared to the infinite vitality of clay, fire is closely related to civilization. Humans were able to evolve only after receiving fire from Prometheus. Oh Euii-seok's works are based on this mythical worldview, shaping clay to create forms and baking them. Therefore, his works are highly contemplative and meditative. His work shows the process of tracing the Creator's creative acts. By confessing that he works with the earnestness of a craftsman who prays that his work may be elevated to religious sublimity, he is asking himself what value his work can have in an age of value-absence. - Excerpt from Choi Tae-man, Today's Korean Sculpture, p. 333, (Korean Art Yearbook Publishing, 1995) -


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
PARK EUN-A
Korea
Childhood memories with small and insignificant beings like wild flowers are an invitation to precious times that I want to return to and remeber. The small flowers that comforted me when I had a hard time communicating with others in reality seem to represent our apperarance. Wild flowers and nature, which live with tenacious will and vitality, are beings that project and heal me. People and I running vigorously against the background of nature and wild flowers are showing our hearts. I am carrying a gift filled with my heart to you now,.. The love I received from my mother as a child and my relationship with nature are the main motifs of my work.


On my way to you
mixed media on canvas,30cm circular*3ea, 2025
am a women born in South Korea and I work as a painter. I have held five solo exhibition so far,and I work to share my own memories from my childhood and communicate my feelings by combining painting and silkscreen printing techniques.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Lee eun ja
Korea
Spending time with my dog is a leisurely afternoon-like happiness.
It is a picture drawn in the hope that everything will happen as they wish.
Society member for the Traditional Painting A member of the Busan Art Association Several group exhibitions and individual exhibitions

A leisurely afternoon
Stone fainting of Silk/12-go(50.0cm×50.0cm)/2025


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Kim Eunji
Korea
My heightened sensitivity constantly shifts my gaze elsewhere. Yet paradoxically, I find myself drawn to things that feel dangerous or unsettling. Even when I try to avoid them, I end up facing them—an inevitable confrontation that becomes a kind of rite of passage. Accepting, healing, reigniting, and transforming—these stages unfold on my canvas like entries in a diary. This cyclical act is not just a process; it is a vital ritual that keeps me alive.
예민하게 깨어 있는 교감신경은 내 시선을 끊임없이 다른 방향으로 이끈다. 하지만 역설적으로, 위험하고 불안한 것들에 더욱 깊이 끌린다. 피하고 싶지만 결국 마주할 수밖에 없는 그것들과의 충돌은, 나에게 있어 중요한 통과의례이기도 하다. 받아들이고, 회복하며, 다시 감정을 점화하고 치유해 나가는 그 모든 과정을 나는 마치 일기처럼 캔버스에 기록한다. 이 반복은 나를 살아 있게 하는, 반드시 필요한 행위다.

Pray
acrylic on paper, 53x45.5cm, 2024


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Kim eunkyung
Korea
나의 작업은 내 주변과 일상에서 이미지를 가져와 나만의 공간에서 공존하고 혹은 순환한다. 내 주변에 있는 것들이 나를 통해 가상의 결과가 된다.
시간과 공간이 캔버스라는 최소한의 공간에서 이루어지는 내 가상과 현실의 이미지이며 내 기억 속에 내재된 향수와 삶이 압축된 기억의 이미지이다.

Summer garden
oil on canvas/100X80cm/2024




”Greta’s longing” Triptych
Giclée, fine art digital print, Triptych, 72x30 cm, 2025
We use our wings to fly and hope to reach the sky.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Eva Rehak - Egasparus
Schweiz
Eva Rehák is a Slovak-born visual artist whose second home is now Switzerland. She has been dedicated to art since childhood, completing 8 years of formal training under professional guidance. Although she explored various styles and techniques, she became particularly captivated by ink drawing — tiny lines and dots that demand patience and precision. Her unique pen-and-ink style remains central to her work, even when combining it with watercolors, acrylics, oils, or pastels. She creates spontaneously and intuitively, which makes her artworks diverse in theme, yet always marked by her distinctive pen strokes. Currently, she is also focused on textile painting, developing her own original fashion collection. Eva is also a professional makeup artist who collaborates with photographers, modeling agencies, and events both in Switzerland and internationally. Whether through a brush on canvas or a makeup palette, colors are an essential part of her world.

Kolibri
Acryl-Tinte /80x80/2023


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Farnaz Shoar
Iran
Emerging from a landscape torn between flame and ruins, two ethereal figures face each other — one rooted in a burning tree-ike form, the other surrounded by collapsing urban remnants. The composition reflects a fractured self, born from conflict, survival, and memory. The presence of decayed cities, the all-seeing eye, and a staircase climbing through the body of the figure symbolize the lingering aftermath of war — particularly the lived and inherited trauma of generations in Iran.
Yet through vibrant textures and organic forms, the painting resists despair, reaching toward imagination, healing, and the rediscovery of identity within devastation.
born in 1981 in Tehran, is an Iranian painter with a Master's degree in Painting from the Faculty of Art and Architecture, Islamic Azad University. I'm a permanent member of the Iranian Painters Association and an honorary member of the Institute for Promotion of Visual Arts. My artistic practice is rooted in figurative, surreal, and expressionist painting, often exploring identity, memory, and emotional states. I held several solo exhibitions in Tehran and participated in more than 50 group exhibitions in Iran, the UK, Turkey, and Georgia. I’m also served as a curator, art director, and workshop organizer, contributing significantly to Iran’s contemporary art scene. I held four solo painting exhibition in Iran

Silent Dialog
Mixed media on cardbord 25x21cm 2025


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Farshid Fakhri
Iran
The moon never disappears behind the clouds...
Indeed, in the midst of complexity, truth still shines.

MOON & SKY
white drawing pen . Fluorescent color
57×50cm 2024


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Fatemeh Karimi
Iran
For me, The Lost Center represents the fading connection between humans and their myth, land, and cosmic order — a spiritual dislocation shaped by modern crises. In my work, I revisit the legend of Arash the Archer as an act of return to that lost center: a moment where sacrifice, destiny, and nature (Mount Damavand, the sky, and the stars) align with meaning. By integrating ancient symbols and astronomical patterns, I aim to reconnect the viewer with the forgotten harmony between human, earth, and cosmos.
I am active in the field of painting and resin art. I work as a school art teacher, an international peace ambassador, and an entrepreneur.

Our Kind Hearts Are in God’s Hands
Acrylic/Resin 50x50cm 2025
This artwork, “Our Kind Hearts Are in God’s Hands,” honors those who donate their organs. Divine hands hold a heart as a symbol of peace, sacrifice, and compassion. The dripping blood reflects the pain that transforms into love and the gift of life.


BIEAF2025 Invited Artist
Fatih Sungurtekin
Türkiye

Fatih Sungurtekin’s 'Penelope' questions the relationship between
environment, culture, and art, resonating with BIEAF’s 'Lost Center' theme. It explores existence's cyclical nature, micro and macro evolution, offering an artistic view on lost human-natural balance. Drawing from nature, universe, and microscopic imagery, this dynamic oil painting captures life's fleeting beauty. Its composition, in fantastic dialogue via Penélope Cruz's expression
and moon eclipse's serenity, invites viewers to reconsider memory, time, and our environmental-cultural core.
Fatih Sungurtekin (b. 1977, Çorum, Turkiye), is a conceptual visual artist exploring memory, time, and perception through layered abstraction. A Marmara University Fine Arts graduate, he blends traditional and contemporary techniques. Sungurtekin, who has participated in national and international exhibitions, examines the dissolution of collective memory and urban heritage. With his "Moment and Memory" concept, he transforms personal and collective elements into a visual cosmology, blending the visible and hidden. He continues his artistic work in Muğla, Turkiye.




























