ABOUT
THE PROJECT
FVTVRIST ART is a curatorial platform and research-driven network dedicated to identifying and positioning artists who are actively shaping the visual language of the future.
We select and curate artists whose practices demonstrate conceptual rigor, cultural urgency, and a distinct formal language, voices that actively construct the future of visual culture. We are interested in creators who have something at stake, who articulate position, tension, and vision through their work.
Our curatorial focus extends across contemporary art, fashion, design, cinema, and music. The artists we choose become part of an evolving international constellation: a carefully built archive of names we believe will define the next chapter of cultural production.
Selected creators gain access to FVTVRIST’s global network of collectors, institutions, brands, and collaborators. Works may be featured editorially, included in curated presentations, or considered for special commissions in dialogue with our partners.
FVTVRIST ART serves as both an archive and a platform for creators-from every background, region and religion-to showcase their work worldwide.
We welcome submissions from artists working across mediums, including video, digital practices, installation, photography, performance, illustration, and experimental formats. We are particularly attentive to those who challenge form, question systems, and propose new visual grammars for a rapidly transforming world.
OUR MISSION
FVTVRIST ART exists to identify and position artists whose work contributes meaningfully to the evolving language of contemporary culture. We are committed to recognizing practices that demonstrate intellectual depth, formal precision, and a clear awareness of their historical and social context.
FVTVRIST ART promotes Open Calls to discover talent in specific regions or explore thematic subjects. Through carefully structured Open Calls, we research specific geographies and thematic inquiries. Each selection process is reviewed by an international curatorial circle, ensuring rigorous evaluation and a multiplicity of perspectives. These initiatives are not volume-driven; they are research-driven and designed to surface voices that expand discourse and redefine contemporary visual production.
ARTWORK
OF THE MONTH
Alexandre Zhu
A brief moment of truth, 2026
Charcoal, pumice, pigment, acrylic polymer on canvas
140 x 100 cm
© Courtesy of the Artist and Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai
Description
FVTVRIST has been following Alexandre Zhu’s practice well before its recent articulations within the international circuit. The work selected for April was encountered during Art Basel Hong Kong 2026 at Vacancy Gallery, whose program continues to define a precise and forward-looking position within the Asian and global contemporary landscape.
Alexandre Zhu (b. 1993) is a French–Chinese artist who grew up between Shanghai and Paris. Educated at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the School of Visual Arts in New York, his practice unfolds through charcoal drawing, developed via a meticulous and time-intensive process that merges observation with introspection. His work engages with memory, displacement, and cultural belonging, shaped by the conditions of the Chinese diaspora and the shifting geographies of his upbringing.
Working from personal archives, Alexandre Zhu constructs images that exist in a suspended state. His compositions, often depicting fragments of bodies, landscapes, or intimate details, operate within a liminal field between presence and erosion. The surface becomes a site of tension, where accumulation and disappearance coexist, and where the image resists narrative closure.
In A Brief Moment of Truth, a figure is seen from behind, caught mid-motion. Strands of hair drift across an unstable atmosphere, evoking both immediacy and withdrawal. From a distance, the image resolves into a recognizable form; at closer range, it fractures into a dense topography of marks, where depth collapses and perception becomes uncertain. This oscillation defines Alexandre Zhu’s language. The work does not seek to fix meaning, but to hold the viewer within a fugitive interval where recognition remains incomplete. What emerges is an image of intimacy structured through distance, where connection persists not despite separation, but because of it.
Alexandre Zhu’s growing presence has been marked by significant institutional and gallery recognition, including the Pierre David-Weill Drawing Prize (2021), Prix Dauphine Contemporary (2022), and his nomination for the K11 Art Foundation Prize (2024). His work has been presented by leading galleries and institutions internationally, from Victoria Miro and Altman Siegel to MO.CO Montpellier and Zhi Museum in Chengdu.
With this selection, FVTVRIST situates Alexandre Zhu within a generation of artists redefining the conditions of image-making today, where drawing becomes not only a medium, but a temporal and philosophical inquiry into how we see, remember, and remain.
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To get started, submit your artistic portfolio and selected artwork to email. After receiving approval from our Editorial team, your artworks will be uploaded to our website and social media. Please use an email address that you check regularly, as our team may need to reach out to you.
HOW TO SELECT YOUR ARTWORK
FVTVRIST ART welcomes all forms of art across various genres and themes, including visual, video, and audio formats. Please follow these guidelines for each submission:
The artwork must be your original creation, and you retain all rights to it;
Artworks must not include any watermarks;
The artwork must be your original creation, and you retain all rights to it;
Images should be at least 640 × 960 pixels in size and not exceed 50MB;
Video submissions should be in MP4 format, no longer than 10 minutes, and not exceed 500MB;
Audio submissions should be in MP3 format and not exceed 100MB;
SUBMIT MONTHLY
You can upload your artworks every month as part of our monthly contest. Submission periods are announced on our social media channels and website.
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