The Radar: Sebastián Espejo, Mingkai He and Omri Sudri
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In our monthly series, The Radar, we ask quick-fire questions to artists we’ve got our eye on. This roundup spotlights Sebastián Espejo, Mingkai He and Omri Sudri
Omri Sudri, Figure with mirror, 2023. Courtesy the artist
Sebastián Espejo
Sebastián Espejo, A stick in the water, 2025. Courtesy the artist
Chilean artist Sebastián Espejo views painting as a living organism and as a practice tied to attention, understanding it as a way of growing outward. His work captures the beauty and transience of the everyday. Espejo has exhibited in institutions in Chile, the UK, USA and Taiwan (R.O.C.).
Age: 35
Location: London, UK
Last dream you had: After reading Death’s End by Liu Cixin recently, I dreamed I was having green tea in a tiny Japanese-style microcosmos
Favourite exhibition: ‘One Year: 52 envelopes, 132 drawings’ by José Antonio Suárez Londoño at Ordovas gallery
Favourite object you own: My hands
Favourite art-world Instagram account: @petershear
Favourite movie: Where Is the Friend’s House? by Abbas Kiarostami
Favourite artwork: La Playa by Adolfo Couve
Loves: Cashews and the sauna
Hates: Loud noises
End-of-year goals: To not wake up so early in the morning
Sebastián Espejo, 'A spiral that grows towards left', 2025. Courtesy the artist
Sebastián Espejo, 'Flower vase and watermelon painting', 2025. Courtesy the artist
Sebastián Espejo, 'Homenaje a Charchoune', 2025. Courtesy the artist
Sebastián Espejo, 'Gathering', 2025. Courtesy the artist
Mingkai He
Mingkai He, The construction of world history, 2024. Photo: Wang Wenlong. Courtesy of the Artist and VIN VIN Vienna / Naples.
Mingkai He’s paintings are rendered with a hazy, dream-like quality and often incorporate materials like rice paper, print clippings, found objects and personal ephemera. Mingkai studied painting at the RCA and has a PhD in Art Theory and Philosophy from the Shanghai Theatre Academy. He is represented by the Austrian gallery VIN VIN.
Age: 29
Location: Shanghai, China
Last dream you had: I dreamed of being trapped in a hotel with countless rooms, each leading to a different world
Favourite exhibition: Anselm Kiefer’s solo exhibition at the Ducal Palace in Venice in 2022 and Mike Nelson’s ‘Extinction Beckons’ at the Hayward Gallery in 2023
Favourite object you own: No favourite object, no fetishes
Favourite art-world Instagram account: @artnotnet
Favourite movie: Dog Day Afternoon by Sidney Lumet or A Brighter Summer Day by Te-Chang Yang
Favourite artwork: The Virgin and Child by Masaccio
Loves: Five Guys fries, unopened oil paints, the smell of clothes when they come out of the dryer
Hates: Mushrooms, rainy days, spiders
End-of-year goals: To make a few satisfactory works
Mingkai He, 'Chishui River', 2024. Photo: Wang Wenlong. Courtesy of the Artist and VIN VIN Vienna / Naples.
Mingkai He, 'Fleeing by night', 2024. Photo: Wang Wenlong. Courtesy of the Artist and VIN VIN Vienna / Naples.
Mingkai He, 'Disappearing Blade', 2024. Photo: Wang Wenlong. Courtesy of the Artist and VIN VIN Vienna / Naples.
Mingkai He, 'Love petty borgeois life', 2024. Photo: Wang Wenlong. Courtesy of the Artist and VIN VIN Vienna / Naples.
Mingkai He, 'Land of blood and honey', 2023. Photo: Wang Wenlong. Courtesy of the Artist and VIN VIN Vienna / Naples.
Omri Sudri
Omri Sudri, Perineums Disaster, 2023. Courtesy the artist
Omri Sudri’s paintings offer glimpses into mysterious worlds: fleeting visions, faceless figures and elusive stories. His work seems to carry its own hidden logic, defying easy interpretation and inviting us to dig deeper. Sudri studied at the Jerusalem Studio School and is represented by ADZ Gallery in Lisbon.
Age: 42
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Last dream you had: A sea turtle hatchling turned into a slug in the palm of my hand when I picked it up
Favourite exhibition: Giotto’s frescoes at Assisi
Favourite object you own: A set of spring steel palette knives from Japan from the ‘70s
Favourite art-world Instagram account: I’m not really active on Instagram
Favourite movie: There’s many. Maybe The Fly by David Cronenberg
Favourite artwork: Paolo Uccello’s Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino unseats Bernardino della Carda at the Battle of San Romano at The Uffizi in Florence
Loves: Food and finishing a painting
Hates: Margarine and hangovers
End-of-year goals: To make knockout paintings
Omri Sudri, 'Painkiller', 2024. Courtesy the artist
Omri Sudri, 'Adva', 2023. Courtesy the artist
