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Summer
2025
The summer 2025 issue of Neo2 is here, celebrating the diversity and cross-disciplinarity that define our editorial approach. Music, cinema, gastronomy, fashion, art, architecture, and furniture design intersect in an issue that highlights both emerging and established talent. This special edition features five covers with unique profiles: María Vicente and Andy Criere from the world of sports; Ángeles Toledano and Belén Aguilera as musical icons; and Ivana Baquero from the silver screen. Now available at newsstands and through our online store. A pluralistic look at the creative present that's coming.
In Suffolk, a couple of architects and parents of five children have created Housestead, designed by Sanei + Hopkins. Inspired by English farmhouses, this four-block home proposes a contemporary rural model. It integrates nature, architecture, and everyday life in a luminous, regenerative, and profoundly human harmony.
For over two decades, Qi Zhuo has worked between Paris and Jingdezhen, exploring the language of porcelain, glass, and broken symbols. His work transforms historical and religious icons into sculptures charged with ambiguity, humor, and tension.
She represents a new generation of athletes who break the mold. A young, charismatic, and committed heptathlete, she faces the Tokyo World Championships with determination and empowerment. Her figure embodies the strength, diversity, and future of sports with a fresh and powerful perspective.
He discovered his vocation as a chef at the age of 12. He spent more than two decades working in renowned restaurants in Oslo. In 2025, he opened Familjen in Lisbon: one of the culinary concepts that has most impressed us this year. His cooking is simple, original, and based on seasonal produce.
He is the first Spanish surfer to compete in the Olympic Games and our most decorated athlete on the board. His career is an example of perseverance, technique, and passion for a sport that is gaining more followers every day. An athlete who is making history on the waves.
Brazilian multidisciplinary artist based in Barcelona, Pedro Torres doesn't just illustrate theories; he makes them tremble, vibrate, and suspend. With installations that incorporate light, image, sound, and language, he stretches temporality, bends it, and turns it into an experience.
From a deep flamenco root, her voice emerges as an intimate and political act. In her first album, Sangre Sucia, she fuses tradition with a contemporary perspective, giving a voice to silenced female singers. Her singing doesn't impose itself; it surrenders. And in that gesture, the flamenco spirit becomes eternal.
An essential figure in dissident culture, Samantha Hudson displays her more pop side in ¿No seré yo una obra de arte?, the documentary series she presents on Filmin. Through music, satire, and performance, she reasserts her place as a transgressive and unmissable icon of the present.
With Anela, her third album to be released in September, Belén Aguilera ushers in a new, freer, darker, and more honest phase. Her vulnerability is no longer a wound, but a strength. Between electronic music and raw emotion, she creates a sonic refuge for those who don't quite fit in.
Founder of Crosby Studios, he is a distinctive voice in contemporary design. Born in Russia, he lives between New York and Paris. His philosophy, Transformism, embraces empathy and reinterpretation. He is now presenting for Westwing his first furniture collection in years.
With an international career that began as a child, the Catalan actress continues to explore new universes. After her time on La Viuda Negra, she now joins the cast of Spartacus: House of Ashur, solidifying her presence in global fiction with increasingly complex and challenging roles.
In this issue, you will find many more interviews with protagonists of the contemporary scene: Amore, Ana Tijoux, Asia Ortega, Candela Saitta, Chris Amaya, Coconutscankill, Cyril Khmer, Days of War, Gara Durán, L0rna, Jaba Quiles, J.M. Borrás, Junior Healy, Llum, Lua de Santana, Luna Lionne, Manuel García, Mitch, Nimph, Ounieta, Pat Equilux, Ssstufff, Svsto, Weval…
