Catapult

Independent contemporary art platform spotlighting emerging artists, exhibitions, interviews, and critical perspectives.

Exhibition

A Ceremony Doesn't Know It's Violence - Yalda Afsah at Kunsthal Thy .

Yalda Afsah presents Surge at Kunsthal Thy, Denmark. Two video works examine ritual, collective force, and what proximity does to the body. March-May 2026.

Editorial Partner

Telegraph Gallery Olomouc

Editorial Partner

PART International Art Residency Austria

Exhibition

Xxijra Hii Presents Even Spectres Can Tire in London

Xxijra Hii presents Floryan Varennes in London. PVC orthoses, glass ears, lavender: care becomes architecture, endurance without resolution.

Artist to watch

A Shelter Built for Species We Don't Have Names For - Jan Baszak Artist In Focus

Artist in Focus

The Self Does Not Fit the Reflection - Aziya Ikhtymbayeva

Exhibition

Matti Sumari at SIC Helsinki with Worker Ant After Work. Text by Sophia Person

SIC Helsinki presents Matti Sumari's Worker Ant After Work. Anodized aluminum and found lampposts address precarious labor and identity.

Interview

What Does It Mean to Stay With a Material Until It Speaks?

DiFranco interviews Luca Vanello, Brussels-based artist working with installation and sculpture. On matter, attention, and the ethics of making. A ongoing Catapult Interview series

Artist to watch

Romane Charlot: Luminous Structures in Tension

Artist in Focus

Where Does the Skin End and the Fibre Begin? Soojin Kang with an Artist in Focus on Catapult

Exhibition

The Basement Is Where the Power Waits - Esben Weile Kjæ

St. Chads Projects presents Lions by Esben Weile Kjær at King's Cross.Curated by Benjamin Orlow

Interview

Paul Riedmüller: Painting the Digital Hallucination

Paul Riedmüller transforms AI-generated images into meticulous airbrush paintings. An exclusive interview on reversing digital logic, trompe-l'œil, and the future of painting

Art Projects

Working with Instability The Open Structure of 目［mé］

A close reading of 目［mé］’s collective practice, examining instability, authorship, and perception across Elemental Detection, space, masayume, and Contact

Exhibition

How Much Distance Does Intimacy Require?

Simchowitz presents Two of Us, a joint exhibition by Andrey Samarin and Lera Derkach at Hill House, Pasadena.

Exhibition

Can Something Microscopic Outlast Our Dream of Immortality? - Stine Deja at Viborg Kunsthal

Stine Deja presents Micro Management at Viborg Kunsthal. A speculative laboratory where tardigrades expose the limits of humanity's immortality quest.

Exhibitions

What Does the Sea Remember That We Have Chosen to Forget?

ARoS international art museum, Aarhus presents Anna Boghiguian - The Sunken Boat till 19. April 2026

Featured Artist

Ruo-Hsin Wu: Floating in the Dark

Ruo-Hsin Wu paints faceless figures suspended in pitch-black voids. Taiwan-based, technically luminous, emotionally weightless.

Artist in Focus

Pierre-Yves Delannoy: Soft Structures of Memory

Artist in Focus: Pierre-Yves Delannoy builds textile environments where the body, memory and marginal histories surface through repetitive gestures.

Exhibition

Villa du Parc Presents Flo Kasearu: Do Not Step on the Grass

Flo Kasearu’s exhibition Do Not Step on the Grass at Villa du Parc in Annemasse stages a quiet collision between institutional authority and childhood imagination inside the rooms of the historic villa.

Jörg Reissner PARLAMENT installation view JesuitenFoyer Vienna floor-based sculptures MDF plywood black white green

A Parliament Where Nothing Stands on a Pedestal

JesuitenFoyer Vienna presents PARLAMENT by Jörg Reissner. Installation from scrap MDF, plywood, and canvas, arranged at eye level.

Vivienne Sun Liminality installation detail showing photographic works mounted on wooden puzzle-like brackets referencing institutional interiors

Care and Control Share a Vocabulary

Vivienne Sun at a.d.b.k. Nürnberg. Sculptures from medical furniture, resin, and wood suspended between care and control.

Maija Fox Hard Shoulders installation view showing bridge-like metal structure with vertical columns inside gallery space at Sinne Helsinki

Everything That Accelerates Leaves Something Behind

Sinne presents Maija Fox's Hard Shoulders in Helsinki. Cast metal and woven wire where infrastructure and marsh ecology meet. Curated by Markus Aström

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

Pale figure floating in darkness in a contemporary figurative painting by Ruo-Hsin Wu, suggesting solitude, emotional interiority, and suspended movement.

Ruo-Hsin Wu: Floating in the Dark

Ruo-Hsin Wu paints faceless figures suspended in pitch-black voids. Taiwan-based, technically luminous, emotionally weightless.

Fátima de Juan artist portrait infront of one of her large scale paintings in her studio

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.

Jeyoon Ryu Moon Jar 6 ceramic vessel with Korean hangul and Japanese kanji text glazed ceramic Kyoto

The Landscape That Lives Inside the Bird →

Jeyoon Ryu works in ceramic sculpture. Born in South Korea, based in Kyoto. A Catapult Artist in Focus on clay, migration, and transformation.

24 Apr

Artist in Focus

Jan Baszak installation view Letztraum at ZAMEK Culture Centre Poznan textile and metal horse sculptures by Filip Preis

A Shelter Built for Species We Don't Have Names For - Jan Baszak Artist In Focus →

Jan Baszak works with sculpture, installation, and textile. Based in Berlin. A Catapult Artist in Focus on interspecies intimacy and post-human shelter.

13 Apr

Artist in Focus

Aziya Ikhtymbayeva - artist portrait - in focus - painting - the self does not fit the reflection

The Self Does Not Fit the Reflection - Aziya Ikhtymbayeva →

Aziya Ikhtymbayeva works in airbrush painting across figuration and still life. Based in Prague. A Catapult Artist in Focus on perception, migration, and the self that holds still.

05 Apr

Artist in Focus

Shirley Fu installation view in studio London hybrid sculpture with curved metal sheet found tyre and tools on floor photo by Runqi Wen

Soft Machinery: A Poetry of Distorted Paths →

Shirley Fu on hybrid forms, found tyres, silicone flesh, and the tension between control and chance, in conversation with Di Franco for Catapult

21 Apr

Interview

Luca Vanello working with translucent material in a dark installation space, focusing on texture, light, and tactile engagement, photographed by Stephen Kyndt

What Does It Mean to Stay With a Material Until It Speaks? →

DiFranco interviews Luca Vanello, Brussels-based artist working with installation and sculpture. On matter, attention, and the ethics of making. A ongoing Catapult Interview series

01 Apr

Interview

Paul Riedmüller: Painting the Digital Hallucination →

Paul Riedmüller transforms AI-generated images into meticulous airbrush paintings. An exclusive interview on reversing digital logic, trompe-l'œil, and the future of painting.

29 Mar

Interview

artist radar, munchies art club features artists from its artist features on instagram. Artwork hetty

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.

artist radar presenting contemporary artists Candy Bassas, ailyn lee and Jie Zhang.

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.

artist radar 10 - By Ask Kurt - with 3 outstanding artists. on view Taylor anton White for munchies art club

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.

目[mé], Japanese art collective, in there studio in Tokyo now on view Catapult Munchies Art Club showcasing there art and practice

Working with Instability The Open Structure of 目［mé］

A close reading of 目［mé］’s collective practice, examining instability, authorship, and perception across Elemental Detection, space, masayume, and Contact

nstallation view of Olivia Rode Hvass’s HUNT(ED),Luxembourg Art Week 2025, curated by Çağla Erdemir.

What Happens When Medieval Tapestries Meet Bleeding Horses and Dead Sunflowers? Olivia Rode Hvass at Luxembourg Art Week

Olivia Rode Hvass transforms The Hunt of the Unicorn into Hunt(ed), a storefront installation during Luxembourg Art Week where jacquard tapestries, failed crops, and class collisions rewrite myth as critique. Curated by Çağla Erdemir

Khoren Matevosyan × Woods.center - A Glimpse Into His Expanding Universe

At the Woods Center, Xoromat (Khoren Matevosyan) unveils a new mural that expands his universe of woven myths into a bold public art statement.

meta ads? good or bad? what is working. don´t burn money. instagram for artists

Artists Are Funding Meta Ads That Can’t Reach Collectors

Artists spend €20–100 a month on Meta Ads that mostly reach other artists. Here’s why the system doesn’t convert and never really did.

Giphy of bugs bunny at the starting line for a race. in relation to does it matter where and how an art career begins

Does It Matter Where an Artist Begins, or Only What They Create?

Whether self-taught or schooled, artists confront the same questions about creativity and career. This piece looks at what really shapes an artistic path today.

Woman in ’80s style sunglasses leans in to kiss a retro television, symbolizing pop-culture nostalgia that fashion embraces and art avoids.

Why Doesn’t Art Get an ’80s Fashion Meltdown Moment?

Art has had its own terrible eras, only hidden under taste, history and debate. A short rant on cringe cycles, the art world, artists, and cultural nostalgia.