Explore the Living Archive by Catapult (formerly Munchies Art Club). A comprehensive directory of contemporary artists, exhibitions, and long-form features.
Featured
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 Here’s why age limits in the art world are outdated.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.
Who Profits When Art is Resold? Spoiler: Not the Artist!
Visual artists don’t get royalties when their work resells, even if it sells for ten times more. Maybe it’s time that changed.
How necessary is a personal website as an artist? And are websites still a thing?
Yes. Think Neo seeing the Matrix. Once you switch it on, the noise drops and the work reads. Catapult - uncensored
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Marcell Menyhárt: Plastic Frames as Sites of Memory
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Marcell Menyhárt works with sculptural reliefs to confront artificial memory, loss, and humor through plastic systems and controlled material tension.
Artist in Focus
Sándor Körei: Mediated Nature as Sculptural Tension
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Sándor Körei works with sculpture and installation to stage nature through glass, restraint and perceptual tension, where observation and distance collide.
Artist in Focus
Seung-Jun Lee: Drawing as Accumulated Pressure
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Seung-Jun Lee builds tension through large-scale drawing, repetition and restraint, where personal fragments harden into spatial systems.
Artist in Focus
Featured
Can Painting Wear Armour and Still Feel Tender? Fátima de Juan and Her Dino-Fueled Amazons
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Fátima de Juan paints monumental, fruit-charged figures that balance tenderness and threat, drawing from graffiti roots and a fiercely personal inner mythology.
Features
What SPARK Art Fair Vienna Got Right, Even as It Presses Pause
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SPARK Art Fair Vienna stands for solo presentations and curatorial clarity. Why focus, risk, and artistic discipline matter in today’s art fair landscape.
Art Fairs
Bianca Barandun: Sculptural Systems of Memory and Air
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Exhibition in Focus: Artist Bianca Barandun works with installation, sculpture and drawing to articulate memory through restraint, suspension and material tension. On View at Marc Bibiloni Gallery in Madrid
Exhibition
Heti PRACK: Ehrenamt
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Heti PRACK at KOENIG2 by_robbygreif, Vienna. A restrained installation negotiating control, anonymity and queer presence within rigid spatial order.
Exhibition
Featured
Can Painting Carry Time Without Choosing a Side? Artist Spotlight Ruben Einsmann
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Ruben Einsmann uses painting to layer medieval imagery with contemporary symbols, creating surfaces where time, memory, and erosion remain unresolved.
Features
Featured
Can Threads Hold History Without Becoming Narrative? Avraam Hirodontis in Focus
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Avraam Hirodontis works with canvas, fabric, soil dyes and layered textiles to explore material intelligence, memory and structure without relying on narrative.
Features
Can Painting Hold a Dream Without Explaining It? Artist Spotlight Paes
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Paes paints dreams as lived experience, using figurative scenes to hold memory, fear, and self-awareness without forcing resolution.
Features
What We Hide, What We Perform, and What Painting Still Knows! Artist Spotlight Liz Hernández
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Liz Hernández paints memory and identity as something unstable, worn, and performed. An artist spotlight on masks, truth, and transformation.
Features
Featured
Nadine Karl creates installations where time, memory, and space fall out of sync. An artist spotlight on perception, slowness, and resistance.
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Nadine Karl builds spaces where time and memory lose their grip. An artist spotlight on installation, perception, and the politics of slowness.
Features
How Does Figurative Painting Capture Intimacy in the City?
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In her figurative paintings, Maria Naidyonova explores intimacy, memory and social nuance within everyday urban life.
Features
Artists Are Funding Meta Ads That Can’t Reach Collectors
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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.
Catapult - uncensored
Joan Bonnemaison With Figures In Thought: A Visual Journey Into Existence
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Join Bonnemaison On A Visual Exploration Of Indoor Sanctuaries Where Figures Sit In Contemplation, Surrounded By Objects That Echo The Tales Of Existence, Inviting Viewers To Decipher The Stories Within
Artist in Focus
Yutaro Inagaki: When the City Becomes a Second Skin
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Yutaro Inagaki paints bodies wrapped in urban armor, where protection, anonymity, and emotion blur into one surface.
Features
Does It Matter Where an Artist Begins, or Only What They Create?
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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.
Catapult - uncensored
How Does Structure Become Emotion in the Work of Chris Cassimatis? Interview with DiFranco
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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.
