HAGD Contemporary: Michael Kærgaard and the Logic of Monsters
HAGD Contemporary presents Michael Kærgaard’s Mother of Many, an exhibition of stoneware figures where monstrosity, tenderness, and material force collide.
The Living Archive – A Curated Record of Contemporary Art
Explore the Living Archive by Catapult (formerly Munchies Art Club). A comprehensive directory of contemporary artists, exhibitions, and long-form features
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What Happens When Art Becomes Belief? Susanne Wenger at Halle für Kunst Graz
Susanne Wenger Àdùnní Olórìṣà returns to Graz at Halle für Kunst Steiermark. A quiet, overdue rediscovery of art, belief, and a life shaped beyond Europe.
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.
Can Painting Carry Time Without Choosing a Side? Artist Spotlight Ruben Einsmann
Ruben Einsmann uses painting to layer medieval imagery with contemporary symbols, creating surfaces where time, memory, and erosion remain unresolved.
Can Threads Hold History Without Becoming Narrative? Avraam Hirodontis in Focus
Avraam Hirodontis works with canvas, fabric, soil dyes and layered textiles to explore material intelligence, memory and structure without relying on narrative.
Nadine Karl creates installations where time, memory, and space fall out of sync. An artist spotlight on perception, slowness, and resistance.
Nadine Karl builds spaces where time and memory lose their grip. An artist spotlight on installation, perception, and the politics of slowness.
What Can Theatre Teach Sculpture? Artist Spotlight Xiaozhou Liao
Xiaozhou Liao transforms theatre thinking into contemporary sculpture. His installations mix stagecraft, politics and play to question how neoliberal spaces shape our lives.
Why Do ‘Emerging Artist’ Opportunities Still Have an Age Limit?
Open calls and residencies often define ‘emerging artist’ as under 35, but real art careers don’t expire. Here’s why age limits in the art world are outdated.
Who Really Builds an Artist’s Career, and Who Just Collects the Credit
Small galleries invest time, risk, and belief. Mega galleries arrive when it is safe. Everyone pretends this is just how careers work.
Yuma Radne and the Return of Myth in Contemporary Painting
How Yuma Radne brings Buryat mythology into contemporary painting, exploring identity, memory, and myth through vivid, symbolic works.
How Do You Honor Tradition While Breaking It? Bob Geerts and Glenn Barkley at HAGD Contemporary
Geerts' tattooed paintings meet Barkley's ceramic sculptures at HAGD Contemporary, Aalborg. Curated by Rasmus Peter Fischer.
Can Painting Slow You Down in a Fast World? Ellen Claes
Ellen Claes paints overlooked infrastructure and asks whether slowing down can become a form of resistance.
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What If Neurological Pain Were Already a Deity?
Kunsthalle zu Kiel presents Lu Yang: Electromagnetic Brainology, Kiel. Buddhist deities wired to neurological pain in five-channel video
When Does the Mirror Become the Audience?
GOODBANK, Frankfurt presents Spiegel, a solo exhibition by Katharina Schücke. Ink drawings interrogate the mirror selfie as a site of staging, observation and control. Curated by Maja Dana Lisewski.
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.
Clauda Presents Paula Gogola: soft_sighs synthesis
Clauda, Gallery Prague presents Paula Gogola’s exhibition soft_sighs synthesis, where painting expands into sculptural relief exploring bodily transformation, opacity, and material tension.
P.Kim Kimtaegi: Between Mask and Body
Artist in Focus: P.Kim Kimtaegi explores the fragile moment when the heroic image collides with the ordinary human body beneath it.
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.
GRIP FACE SOLO SHOW - "UTOPÍA DEL LODO Y SASHIMI DE BRUMA" MIRÓ FOUNDATION MUSEUM
Miró Foundation Museum presents Utopía del Lodo y Sashimi de Bruma, a large-scale installation by Grip Face addressing war, civilian fragility and symbolic resistance
Call Someone at ayayay
Group exhibition “Call Someone” at ayayay Frankfurt brings together works by Tobias John, Marcel Walldorf, Kasper de Vos, Tommy Smits, Stijn ter Braak and others, exploring fragile material structures, memory fragments, and sculptural interventions within the gallery space.
Carlo Zappella: The Seamless Switch at Stadtgalerie Raumimpuls
Carlo Zappella at Stadtgalerie - Raumimpuls, Waidhofen an der Ybbs. Photographs, renders and sculptural elements blur reality and digital fabrication through subtle visual friction.
Bitter Spring by Mara Projects, London
Bora Baboçi, Inés Cárdó, Ben Grosse Johannboecke, Felix Murphy, Edoardo Rito, Kairi Tokoro, and Renid Tosuni in Bitter Spring, a group exhibition by Mara Projects in London exploring the tension between remedy and poison.
Yorgos Agrotes: Instability as Method
Artist in Focus: Yorgos Agrotes works with instability, friction and material resistance, turning pressure into structure rather than release.
Villa Bernasconi: Stitches – A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories
Villa Bernasconi presents Stitches: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories, a group exhibition where textile, sculpture and sound transform the house into a quiet haunted environment.
Julie Wittrup: Material Memory Without Nostalgia
Artist in Focus: Julie Wittrup works with textile and clay to construct fragmented figures and symbolic surfaces where material memory, bodily traces and iconographic echoes converge.
Banks Violette - Wish You Were Here - TICK TACK, Antwerp
Banks Violette at TICK TACK, Antwerp. A site-specific installation unfolding across architecture, sound and suspended form
Jeehye Song: Hey, I’m still here at Wentrup Berlin
Jeehye Song at Wentrup, Berlin. 30 January – 14 March 2026. Installation views and a short contextual overview
Anne-Joelle Tan: Humiliation as Image Logic
Artist in Focus: Anne-Joelle Tan stages friction between shame and desire, collapsing poor images, surveillance and exposure into unstable painting.
Tom Król on The Visible Trace of the Invisible Map
Tom Król Interview with DiFranco: On figuration, dérive, error and why painting remains a deeply human practice in an accelerated art world.
Sungho Bae: Soft Bodies Against Coherence
Through gathering and reorganizing circulated materials, Sungho Bae unsettles systems of classification and stability. In doing so, the body emerges not as a fixed whole but as a constructed condition.