Cyan festival of visual culture brings creative people together in the heart of Dalmatian coast, Split. This year the festival takes place from 30 09 until 3 10 in Split.
Jonathan Castro Alejos (Lima, PE) is a graphic designer and multidisciplinary artist based in Rotterdam, working across sound, video, installation, and performance. His practice moves between the real and the fictitious, assembling and reassembling collected raw materials with different qualities and identities into surfaces, objects, visual languages, and soundscapes.
Since 2023, he has been working as Art Director for Dekmantel Festival in Amsterdam, leading the visual identity of one of the most influential electronic music festivals worldwide. His role spans graphic design, spatial thinking, and cultural research, connecting music, architecture, heritage, and visual systems within a contemporary cultural context.
He has collaborated with international clients including Adidas, Nike, Nike House of Innovation (Shanghai), Burberry, 032c, Edwin Europe, Hypebeast China, and Randomevent. His work with fashion brands has included the development of graphics and visual systems for capsule collections in Europe and Asia.
Allan Dransfield (b. 1981, Yorkshire, UK) is a photographer, designer and visual artist based in Łódź, Poland.
Working across Europe and China for over a decade with brands such as Fiat, Volvo and Renault Trucks, his background in automotive design runs alongside a broader, ongoing exploration of what connects life around the planet.
Collecting fragments of the world - images, sounds, objects and responses - he reworks them into new narratives, celebrating the overlooked and shifting perception from micro to macro and back again.
Shaped by collaboration, curiosity and coincidence, his projects unfold across disciplines without fixed boundaries.
In 2019, he partnered with FREITAG as their “Executive Vice Plesident for Global Happiness.”
Tea Jurisic is a Croatian illustrator and muralist working under the artist name TEA KVAR. Through murals, illustration, and large-scale public art, Tea explores storytelling, surrealism, and humor using both traditional and digital media. She holds a Master’s degree in Graphics from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.
The artistic practice of TEA KVAR spans murals, illustration, and public art commissions, often combining elements of comics, narrative imagery, and playful visual storytelling. Over the years, Tea has created murals and exhibited work internationally, with projects appearing in countries including Taiwan, Switzerland, Norway, the United Kingdom, Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia.
Tea is the founder of KVAR Illustration Studio, collaborating with international brands and cultural institutions while continuing to develop an independent artistic practice. Outside the studio and mural walls, Tea is also a passionate mushroom forager, spending much of her free time exploring forests and learning about fungi—an activity that nurtures her curiosity about nature, observation, and organic forms that subtly influence her visual imagination.
