Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art, Issue 20
INTERNATIONAL ART PRESENTATION / AL-TIBA9 MAGAZINE 2026 SPAIN
MAGAZINE DETAILS:
Published by Al-Tiba9 Gallery in “Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art Issue 020”, January 2026 edition, on pp.10-11, with “Fountain of Memories”, © Alexandru Crisan 2018
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publisher: Al-Tiba9, ISSN 2696-2497
format: 21 x 29.7cm
year: published in January 2026
Premium museum art paper
Printed in London
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This limited-edition printed art magazine celebrates the 20th issue of Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art.
ORIGINAL ISSUE20 brings together a curated selection of 57 visual artists, designers, and performers from around the globe. Thoughtfully designed and produced, this edition offers a distinctive platform where each contributor becomes the voice and the medium of their own creative expression. The magazine continues Al-Tiba9’s mission to amplify bold, contemporary perspectives through a visually compelling and intellectually engaging format. The magazine features on its Front and Back covers the work of Mariia Pavlyk, a Ukrainian designer working across fashion through sculptural textiles and environment-driven narrative.
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Featured Artists
Adam Neuba, Aga Szydlik, Alberto Millán Galindo, Alexandru Crișan, Andrea Ghidorzi, Antoine Traineau, Anton Usanov, aren dou, ChingKe Lin, Ece Batur, Elena Done, Emilia Hendreich, Fernando Llano Mercado, Fina Ferrara, Francisco Ratti, Guanqiao Yu, Haochen He, Irina Zadorozhnaia, Jan Kubisa, Jasmine Nackash, Jeremiah A. Gilbert, Jiaxi Zhang, Jiaxin Chen, Jude Zawaideh, Kelly Lin, Kristine Narvida, Magdalena Kaczmarczyk, Mariia Pavlyk, Mariya Nesvyetaylo, Martin Geller, Monika Grygier, Natalia Oginskaya, Nathalie Moizard, Niah McGiff, Noah Spivak, ojolo a.k.a. abel garcía jiménez, paulaferlo, Priyanka Pulijal, Randa Hijazi, Raoul Korzuschek, Roxana Casillas, Samantha Lance, Serge Gualini, Sergey Piskunov, Slitrobo, Stefanie Carnevale, Syona Cheng, Teddy Ros, Tomohiro Shibuki, Vadim Visual, Varvara Burtseva, William Joe Josephs Radford, Xidong Luo, Yana Mühl, Yi Wang – Yione Studio, Yingying Gao, Zuzanna Poprawska.
Magazine page: https://www.altiba9.com/art-magazine-issue20
Artist Bio/CV
Alexandru Crișan (b. Bucharest, Romania 1978) is a visual artist interested in the existential complementarity of objective and nonobjective forms of expression. To resolve the former, he is an architect. As far as the latter is to be unpacked, his “counter-professional” career in photography began in 2008; his paintings stand, for almost three decades, as the most intimate, borderline atavistic, acts of divulgence. Assuming that taxonomy is of any consequence, he is partial to fine-art photography and Abstract Expressionism. The eclectic nature of his projects is, therefore, a given. His photography is a direct result of compulsive visual disquisitions on impromptu portraiture, architectural equivocations, parametric manipulations, “hybrid storytelling” and evocative conservationism. Most of his long-term, open-ended photographic series – such as “Minimal White / Minimal Black”, or “Lost Highway / My Car is Your Avatar” – are meditations on loci and human perceptions. The research on and within photography gradually afforded him a surreal vision of immateriality, which he debonairly likes to describe as “tormenting several stages of a hyperrealist mise en abyme”. Since 2015, he developed quite a few “meta-projects”: “Erotoarchitecture”, “Metropoesis”, “Hortus Conclusus”, “Alex Transcends the Balkans for a Bottle of Perfume”, “Mechaniarchy” and “Shoah”, under the compelling awareness and besetting exploration of otherness and of self. Crișan’s works have been presented in over a dozen international exhibitions, have been published in over 50 peer-reviewed magazines, have received over 500 international awards and nominations, and are part of several privately owned collections and art galleries.