Opening Eyes through Art with Sisqo Ndombe Akisieful

Growing up in a creative environment in Kinshasa, Congolese multidisciplinary artist Sisqo Ndombe Akisieful paints characters that captivate the viewer with their gaze, the element that the artist calls the heart of all his paintings. Expressing the realities of the Congolese society through his subjects’ eyes, Sisqo’s works invite us to a deep reflection on his native country and the multiple problems and conflicts on the African continent.

In our interview we spoke with Sisqo about his beginnings in the arts, the joy of painting with your hands, and his hope to raise awareness and bring about change through his works.

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Finding Peace in Feeling Small with Agnes Hansella

Self taught Indonesian artist Agnes Hansella (b. 1992 in Banjarmasin, Indonesia) is on a mission to make humans feel small and to make us understand how we are all connected to each other. Sometimes overwhelmed by the fast pace of today’s digital world, the technique of Macramé helps the artist to remember to breathe and to immerse herself in things she can control.

In her interview with Suboart Magazine, Agnes talks about how Macramé found her in 2016, her most recent body of work, and how feeling small helps her to remind that we’re all just part of one ecosystem.

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All Eyes on Olalekan Odunbori

Welcome to another series of “All Eyes On” with Nigerian painter Olalekan Odunbori who recently created a series on Self Evaluation and Self Consciousness, which we are excited to share with you. Enjoy!

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Rising Stars: Ioana Tocoaie

Ioana Tocoaie’s ( b.1998, Sibiu, Romania), artistic practice centers around the fantastic, superimposing recognizable elements from a feminist area with metamorphosed fragments, contradictions of reality. Artworks are assembled like a puzzle, a collage of fragments, touches gestures or recognizable elements, a complex game, a scenography as such. Know more about her work in today’s Rising Stars.

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Rising Stars: Lisa Urakova

Welcome to another edition of “Rising Stars” with Russian artist Elizaveta Urakova whose mysterious pictures are filled with contrasts and vibrant colours. Enjoy!

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Searching for Realness with Eelke Renschke Bekkenutte

Since the beginning of her journey in the field of Visual Art, Dutch artist Eelke Renschke Bekkenutte (b. 1993) has been in search of ‘honest’ visual answers to the question ‘what is life’, driven to explore life through art, in spite of knowing that finding the answer to this question would not be possible. Two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of visiting Eelke in her studio in Lisbon, Portugal, and to speak with her about her beginnings in the art, the beautiful realness of the non-digital and finding your own creative rhythm as an emerging artist. Enjoy!

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In Conversation with A. Stoyke

In her delicate abstract pencil drawings, Berlin based artist A. Stoyke deals with the mental and invisible, translating phenomena of the human psyche, as well as spiritual themes, into pieces of art. Graduated from the Kunsthochschule Berlin in 2020, A. Stoyke has worked on topics such as nightmares, the process of memory and the seemingly ordinary, deconstructing apparent reality and transcribing it into her own aesthetic language.

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Artist Talk with Jacqueline Blanco

Through the use of food in her paintings, Dallas based artist Jacqueline Blanco (b. 1997) paints the negative impact of sexualization within relationships. Graduated with a BFA in Visual and Performing Arts from the University of Texas of Dallas in 2019, she has participated numerous group exhibitions since 2015, and has shown her work in three solo exhibitions with Plush Gallery and SP/N Gallery in Texas.

In her interview with Suboart Magazine, the artist spoke the element of food in her practice, the importance of time management as an emerging artist, and how art can be a a means to raise awareness.

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9 questions with Jayesh Sachdev

Indian multi-hyphenated creator Jayesh Sachdev is a visual artist, designer, entrepreneur, and founder of a Fashion & Lifestyle label Quirk Box.

A graduate in Visual Communication at Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore, he has won several awards over his one decade and a half long career, among them the British Council Young Arts Entrepreneurs India and Tiger Translate India Arts Awards.

In our interview with Jayesh, we spoke about his beginnings in the arts, his most series “Utopian Dystopia” and why perseverance is the key in the creative business. Enjoy!

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Reconnecting to yourself with Hélène Panier

Inspired by women, their body and their inner world, Helène Panier’s works talk about femininity, beauty, and the opposition between our external appearance and our inner
fights.

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In conversation with Haejin Yoo

Despite having dreamed of becoming an artist since her early childhood days, visual artist Haejin Yoo worked in the field of Science for the first years of her adult life. After feeling a deep sense of emptiness at the age of 25, she returned to drawing in her free time and eventually took the decision to become a full artist 5 years back. In our interview with Haejin, we spoke about choosing a creative life over a steady income, the joy and challenges of the painting practice, and her plans for the future

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Rising Stars: James Adabayo

James Adebayo (b. 1996; born and based in Ilorin, Nigeria) is a self-taught artist working predominantly with acrylic and oil paint. His figurative paintings often depict scenes of historical and contemporary life, familial moments, mundane activities and simultaneously convey innate human emotions and nostalgic feelings.

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Rising Stars: Ilona Rijkeboer

Dutch artist Ilona Rijkeboer’s practice is significantly driven by a deep curiosity about sociocultural processes, and questions such as how we identify ourselves in an ever-changing environment. We’re excited to call Ilona our most recent Rising Star and have the honour to share 8 works form her “Manual Series”.

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All Eyes On: Aleezah Qayyum

In her works, Lahore based artist Aleezah Qayyum deals with the abstraction of the body, exploring different materials and historical narratives that inform her perspective. She paints bodies, that feel faintly familiar, melting into their dream like fluid environments – forming remnants of what is known and what we can imagine.

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About the traces that we leave behind with Hyoju Cheon

In her practice, South Korean, NYC-based interdisciplinary artist Hyoju Cheon explores the interaction of spaces, objects and draws our attention to how spaces have the ability to store the traces that our bodies leave in them. For Suboart Magazine, Hyoju answered questions about her love for performance, the interesting qualities of the domestic space, and her hopes for the future. Enjoy!

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Creating spaces for dreaming with Emi Avora

Born on a small island in Greece, Emi Avora was lucky to be able to pursue her interest for painting from childhood days on: in the home studio of her father, an artist, she’d get in touch with tools & materials and decided to professionally pursue her passion at the young age of 17.

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Rising Stars: Florencia del Fabbro

Argentinian painter Florencia del Fabbro believes that every human being is a construction of experiences and moments. Interested in showing a little of people’s intimate worlds, her paintings deal moments that are so familiar to us, that many times, they go unnoticed.

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All Eyes On: Woosik Choi

Exploring the relationship between the world he encounters and himself, New York City based artist Woosik Choi visually translates the world interpreted from his own perspective,.

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Rising Stars: SuJung Jo

Brooklyn based artist SuJung Jo works photography, painting, wood working and sculpture, aiming to visualize the fragility and vulnerability of human life. Discover more of her work, a combination of acceptance and resistance to her own vulnerability.

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All Eyes On: Jordan Baraniecki

Curious about what artists and viewers gravitate towards after the pandemic, Canadian artist Jordan Baraniecki explores colour, play, and stimuli in his series “Chasing Dopamine”, aiming to explore the psychology of what that can do for him as an artist.

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