Can Painting Hold a Body That Refuses to Settle? Michele Gabriele Between Image and Presence
Michele Gabriele works across painting, sculpture, and performance, building figures that test perception, materiality, and the instability of identity
This Week on Catapult Sub: Fresh perspectives and new exhibitions from around the globe.
Catapult - The New Munchies Art Club
Munchies Art Club - now evolving as Catapult - is a Curated platform amplifying contemporary artists worldwide. Daily features, gallery partnerships, art fairs, projects and honest art world commentary for emerging talent
The Living Archive - Catapult Munchies Art Club.
Featured - Roster
Ruo-Hsin Wu: Floating in the Dark
Ruo-Hsin Wu paints faceless figures suspended in pitch-black voids. Taiwan-based, technically luminous, emotionally weightless.
Can Painting Wear Armour and Still Feel Tender? Fátima de Juan and Her Dino-Fueled Amazons
Fátima de Juan paints monumental, fruit-charged figures that balance tenderness and threat, drawing from graffiti roots and a fiercely personal inner mythology.
Exhibition
Paulina Olowska, Caroline Walker, Adéla Janská: Za Pultem (Behind the Counter)at Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc
Paulina Olowska, Caroline Walker and Adéla Janská at Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc. A spatial exhibition on painting, labour and visibility.
Veronika Günther with Popular Problems - The Tiger Room, Munich
Veronika Günther at The Tiger Room, Munich. Drawing becomes spatial, porous and charged with cultural residue. January–February 2026.
Beverly Buchanan: Weathering as a Quiet Insistence
Beverly Buchanan at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin. The exhibition has ended, but its material logic and urgency make it impossible to let it disappear quietly.
Work with Catapult
Artist Collaboration - Partner with us
Premium long-form collaboration for artists ready to invest in their visibility. Catapult Partnership with contemporary artists in all fields.
Exhibition Submission
Submit your contemporary art exhibition to Catapult for potential feature coverage. Free submission for Institutions, artists, and curators.
catapult-services
Gallery Partnership - Editorial Cover or Exhibition Showcase
Apply for curated exhibition coverage and editorial features with Catapult. Professional documentation, original SEO-optimized content, and access to 14,000+ art community.
Artist Interviews
How Does Structure Become Emotion in the Work of Chris Cassimatis? Interview with DiFranco
Chris Cassimatis transforms technical drawings, architecture and sculptural thinking into paintings where precision meets instinct. His interview with Di Franco reveals how structure, color and memory shape his process.
Being visible feels like playing a game I never really wanted to join by Eri Maeda
Eri Maeda on clay, visibility and staying honest on social media. A weekly Catapult series where artists share how they navigate the online world.
How Do Intimacy and Rebellion Speak Through Ruth Devriendt’s Work? A Conversation with Black Swan Gallery and DiFranco
Artist Ruth Devriendt and gallerist Kristoff Tillieu (Black Swan Gallery) join Di Franco to explore vulnerability, resistance, and the instincts that shape their collaboration.
Artist in Focus | This is Catapult
Emma Bjurström: Painting as Controlled Loss
Artist in Focus Emma Bjurström works with painting to stage controlled loss, cultural memory, and perceptual instability through material restraint and historical reference.
Camilla Skov: Sculptural Systems of Containment.
Artist in Focus: Camilla Skov works with sculpture to construct closed systems marked by pressure, symmetry and controlled instability.
Ivan Volkov: Absurdity as Social Pressure
Artist in Focus: Ivan Volkov works across sculpture, painting and land art, using tension, instability and material restraint to expose fragile social systems.
Context - Curated Artist Lists & Thematic Groupings | Catapult
Radar No. 12 – Shortlist Artist Signal
Radar No. 12 spotlights Ju Aichinger, Kumkum Fernando, and Hetty Douglas three artists shaping painting and sculpture with fragility, myth, and raw expression.
The shortlist signal. Artist - RADAR #11
Ask Kurt brings three highlights from our latest features. Candy Bassas, Ailyn Lee, and Jie Zhang. Three practices in painting, each extending the medium into spaces of unease, intimacy, and temporal reflection.
The shortlist signal. Artist - RADAR#10
Ask Kurt brings three highlights from our latest features. Distinct practices from Taylor Anton White, Hunter Potter, and Lisa Klinger, artists reshaping how we look, sense, and imagine. Clear voices, sharp visions.