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.
The Living Archive - Catapult Munchies Art Club.
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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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.
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 Here’s why age limits in the art world are outdated.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.
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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.
Camilla Skov: Sculptural Systems of Containment.
Artist in Focus: Camilla Skov works with sculpture to construct closed systems marked by pressure, symmetry and controlled instability.
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.
Ivan Volkov: Absurdity as Social Pressure
Artist in Focus: Ivan Volkov works across sculpture, painting and land art, using tension, instability and material restraint to expose fragile social systems.
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.
Ruo-Hsin Wu: Floating in the Dark
Ruo-Hsin Wu paints faceless figures suspended in pitch-black voids. Taiwan-based, technically luminous, emotionally weightless.
Marcell Menyhárt: Plastic Frames as Sites of Memory
Marcell Menyhárt works with sculptural reliefs to confront artificial memory, loss, and humor through plastic systems and controlled material tension.
Sándor Körei: Mediated Nature as Sculptural Tension
Sándor Körei works with sculpture and installation to stage nature through glass, restraint and perceptual tension, where observation and distance collide.
Seung-Jun Lee: Drawing as Accumulated Pressure
Seung-Jun Lee builds tension through large-scale drawing, repetition and restraint, where personal fragments harden into spatial systems.
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.
What SPARK Art Fair Vienna Got Right, Even as It Presses Pause
SPARK Art Fair Vienna stands for solo presentations and curatorial clarity. Why focus, risk, and artistic discipline matter in today’s art fair landscape.
Bianca Barandun: Sculptural Systems of Memory and Air
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
Heti PRACK: Ehrenamt
Heti PRACK at KOENIG2 by_robbygreif, Vienna. A restrained installation negotiating control, anonymity and queer presence within rigid spatial order.
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.
Can Painting Hold a Dream Without Explaining It? Artist Spotlight Paes
Paes paints dreams as lived experience, using figurative scenes to hold memory, fear, and self-awareness without forcing resolution.
What We Hide, What We Perform, and What Painting Still Knows! Artist Spotlight Liz Hernández
Liz Hernández paints memory and identity as something unstable, worn, and performed. An artist spotlight on masks, truth, and transformation.
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.