🔥 9 Contemporary Artists to Watch This June: Curated by Gvantsa Jishkariani for Munchies Art Club

Eyes, Threads, Forests, Fire: The Artists Heating Up June at Munchies Art Club

Every month, Munchies Art Club opens the door to fresh artistic voices. For June, Georgian artist and curator Gvantsa Jishkariani selected 9 standouts from our May Open Call.

Gvantsa Jishkariani: ART, Curator and Gallery Founder

In 2025, Gvantsa Jishkariani stuns with “Trauma Porn” at Raster Gallery and joins top shows in Brussels, London, and New York—still sharp, still vital.

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This list hums with quiet surrealism, tangled tactility, ghostly myth, and radiant defiance. From painting to textile, abstraction to narrative, each work left a mark — and now it’s your turn to feel it.

Featuring:
Tina Schneider, Satuko Okuno, Troy Dugas, Kakhaber Berelidze, Sopho Mamaladze, Bettina Willnauer, Margarida Fleming, Bety Krnanska, and Sebastian Mittl.

FEATURED ARTISTS:

Sebastian Mittl:

Sebastian Mittl builds psychological architectures from brushstrokes — part wooden labyrinth, part nervous system.

His paintings feel like walking through memories that haven’t decided whether to shelter you or haunt you.

Tina Schneider

Tina Schneider carves the forest not as scenery, but as a living pulse — her trees breathe, fracture, and remind us that decay is a form of truth.

Satuko Okuno

Satoko Okuno’s wild cats don’t just prowl — they guard, grin, and glimmer with mythic energy.

Their eyes hold centuries of spirit-world mischief, rendered in riotous color and furious charm.

Troy Dugas

Troy Dugas turns fiber into folklore — his tapestries don’t just depict, they chant.

Every loop, knot, and pelted thread is a coded hymn to survival, ritual, and Southern mysticism

Kakhaber Berelidze

Kakhaber Berelidze paints in whispers — drifting eyes, pale flowers, and sea-light dissolve into a floating psychic space.

His work doesn’t explain; it lingers, like a half-remembered dream that insists on being felt.

Sopho Mamaladze

Sopho Mamaladze paints like a mythmaker in revolt — beasts, moons, and mothers swirl in lush, untamed color.

Her canvases crack open reality just enough for dreams to crawl out and stare back

Bettina Willnauer

Bettina Willnauer stitches chaos into coherence — her textiles are soft-spoken yet feral, like secret gardens overgrown with memory.

Each thread feels like a sentence half-whispered, half-forgotten, looping myth and material into one.

Margarida Fleming

Margarida Fleming paints emotional X-rays — women whose silence is louder than any scream.

Their eyes don’t look at you; they look through you, asking what you’re hiding behind your own face.

Bety Krňanská

Bety Krňanská welds lace to steel and softness to speed — her works ride the line between femininity and friction.

They hum with the energy of care work and burnout, dressed in high heels and industrial ghosts.

Huge thanks to Gvantsa Jishkariani for her sharp eye and inspired selection — and to all the artists who submitted to this Open Call. The quality keeps rising with every round, and making final picks never gets easier.

Ask Kurt – The Curatorial Mirror You Didn’t Know You Needed

Ask Kurt is a digital curatorial platform offering artists feedback on their online presence. Evaluated by a team of invited curators and editorial experts.

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This summer, we highly recommend submitting to our ongoing collaboration “Ask Kurt” — a unique curatorial project reviewed by five incredible curators. It’s your chance to get on the radar and into the conversation.