Author: The Auction Collective
Published: 19 Nov 2025
Top 5 Artists | Chiara Badinella
A spotlight on the top 5 next gen artists from those that know. This week's Top 5 comes from Art Advisor and Appraiser Chiara Badinella.
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Chiara Badinella has nearly 20 years of professional experience in the international art market. Specialising in modern and contemporary art, she provides guidance and assistance to private and corporate clients in the acquisition and sale of artworks, as well as appraisal and management of art collections.
She is also an accredited member of the Appraisers Association of America (AAA), the International Catalogue Raisonné Association (ICRA), and the Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association (CRSA).
Before focusing her activity on art advisory, she co-founded a gallery in Milan, named one of the best 500 galleries worldwide by Modern Painters Magazine.
Image Credit: @chiarabadinellaart
Header Image: Yuan Fang, Broken Flowers 01, 2024, oil and charcoal on canvas, 78 3/4 x 94 1/2 in. Image taken from the artist's Instagram.
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Yung Fang
Yuan Fang, Broken Flowers 01, 2024, oil and charcoal on canvas, 78 3/4 x 94 1/2 in. Image credit, Skarstedt Gallery and the artist's Instagram.
Yuan Fang (b. 1996, Shenzhen, China) is an artist based in New York City. She completed both her BFA and MFA at the School of Visual Arts, New York, graduating in 2022. Fang’s practice explores ideas of identity, displacement, and belonging, often reflecting on her experiences growing up between cultures and navigating her perspective as an Asian woman in a globalised world.
“I love the curvy lines, the vibrant shades, and the multiple layers of her paintings. Her gestural brushstrokes convey tension, vulnerability, and movement, while her recent works incorporate autobiographical threads, reflecting on illness, womanhood, and personal transformation. She explores the intersection of the individual and the social, creating visually striking canvases that resonate with emotional and psychological depth.”
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Jem Perucchini
Jem Perucchini, The Shadow (Erebo), 2024, oil and acrylic on canvas, 90.8 x 65.2 x 3.6 cm, 35.7 x 25.5 x 1.4 in. Image credit, Corvi-Mora Gallery's website.
Jem Perucchini (b. 1995, Tekeze, Ethiopia) is an Italian painter based in Milan. A graduate of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, he combines classical techniques with contemporary expression. His richly layered oil paintings fuse African and Western influences, blending Renaissance precision with modern sensibility to explore identity, culture, and belonging.
“I selected Jem Perucchini’s work because it embodies a profound dialogue between cultures, histories, and identities. His paintings merge African heritage with European artistic traditions, creating a visual language that is both timeless and contemporary. By drawing on Early Renaissance influences, Christian iconography, and Ethiopian Orthodox aesthetics, Perucchini reimagines familiar narratives through a cross-cultural lens. His figures—poised between past and present—convey a contemplative stillness that speaks to themes of dual identity and cultural memory.”
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Eva Helene Pade
Eva Helene Pade, Morgen, 2024, oil on canvas, 300 x 360 cm. Image credit, Galleri Nicolai Wallner and the artist’s Instagram.
Eva Helene Pade (b. 1997, Odense, Denmark) is a Danish painter living and working in Paris. She graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 2024. Pade’s large-scale figurative paintings blend historical references with contemporary themes, exploring emotion, identity, and the dynamics of the human body within collective and personal spaces.
“I chose Helene Pade’s work because of the way she captures the intensity of human relationships through a deeply expressive visual language. Her paintings depict human bodies, especially female, not as individual portraits, but as embodiments of emotions, navigating the delicate balance between vulnerability, strength, and violence. Her figures seem to emerge and dissolve within gestural abstraction, creating a powerful tension between visibility and concealment.”
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Ding Shilun
Ding Shilun, Crescent Lake, 2024, oil on linen, 230 x 380 cm. Image credit, Bernheim Gallery and the artist’s Instagram.
Ding Shilun (b. 1998, Guangzhou, China) is a painter working between London and Guangzhou. He studied painting at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and later earned an MA from the Royal College of Art in London. His vivid, narrative compositions weave together myth, history, and popular imagery, creating surreal worlds where humor and chaos coexist.
“What I love about Ding Shilun’s work is the way he creates worlds that feel both deeply personal and dreamlike, where myth and everyday life seamlessly intertwine. His paintings draw from both Eastern and Western visual traditions, resulting in compositions that are at once surreal and emotionally resonant. Each piece feels like entering a poetic, alternate reality—one that mirrors the contradictions and absurdities of our own world while offering space for reflection and wonder.”
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Nour Jaouda
Nour Jaouda, Before the Last Sky, 2025, hand-dyed cotton textile, steel, dimensions variable. Image credit, the Union Pacific London's Instagram.
Nour Jaouda (b. 1997, Cairo, Egypt) is a Libyan-born artist based between London and Cairo. She studied Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, and later earned an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in London. Working across painting, textiles, and installation, Jaouda explores ideas of memory, migration, and belonging.
“What fascinates me about Nour Jaouda’s work is her ability to translate memory and identity into tactile, poetic forms. Through her use of textiles, natural dyes, and sculptural installations, she transforms personal history into a universal language of belonging and displacement. Her materials carry traces of lived experience and cultural memory. There’s a quiet intimacy in her work that speaks to both loss and connection, revealing how landscapes, textures, and traditions can hold the essence of who we are.”
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