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
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22.February 2026:
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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.
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Ruo-Hsin Wu: Floating in the Dark
Ruo-Hsin Wu paints faceless figures suspended in pitch-black voids. Taiwan-based, technically luminous, emotionally weightless.
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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.
Artist in Focus - This is Catapult
Bérénice Gaça Courtin: Weaving as Encrypted Memory
Artist in Focus: Bérénice Gaça Courtin works with textile, code and performance to connect resistance history, digital systems and embodied making
Sarah Hischemöller: Presence Without Resolution
Sarah Hischemöller works across painting and sculpture, staging fragile states of presence, tension and perceptual instability.
Christina Gschwantner: Painting as a Moment of Relief
Artist in Focus: Christina Gschwantner works with painting to hold chance, restraint, and lightness in tension, letting pleasure and structure coexist
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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.
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Kyriaki Goni with Telling the Bees at The Breeder, Athens
Kyriaki Goni at The Breeder, Athens. Installation views and a focused exhibition overview on ecology, ritual and care.
Michael Beutler at Z33 - Curated by Tim Roerig
Michael Beutler at Z33, Hasselt. Paper, pressure and collective labor turn architecture into a provisional, breathing structure. Curated by Tim Roerig
Boglárka Dankó: Heresy in the Small Hours.
Boglárka Dankó at Liget Gallery, Budapest. Textile installation and nocturnal figures in a space of refusal and metamorphosis
Artist Interviews
Angelo Volpe: Splatter & Simmer
Angelo Volpe speaks with DiFranco about discipline, visibility, alchemy and the fragile authority of painting in contemporary Italy. Catapult - The New Munchies Art Club.
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.
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.