A Parliament Where Nothing Stands on a Pedestal
JesuitenFoyer Vienna presents PARLAMENT by Jörg Reissner. Installation from scrap MDF, plywood, and canvas, arranged at eye level.
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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The Organism Was Never the Exception
Karim Boumjimar at Møstings Frederiksberg. Wall paintings, ceramics, and silver casts map the body inside nature's cycles. Through June 7, 2026.
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.
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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.
Jie Zhang: Painting Gardens as Thresholds of Time
Jie Zhang’s poetic paintings at The Koppel Project, London explore gardens as metaphors for memory, growth, and the contradictions of existence.
Candy Bassas: Painting the Pulse Between Silence and Sound
Barcelona-born, Berlin-based painter Candy Bassas turns water into a nocturnal ritual, cyanotype and oil merging in figurative scenes of unease.
The shortlist signal. Artist RADAR #9
Artist Radar: Ask Kurt brings three selections from recent features: fresh looks from Tobias Izsó, Oľga Paštéková, and Ophelia Arc, artists who shape how we see, move, and think. Contemporary voices, crisp ideas, sharp visions.
Rica Fuentes Martinez: Drawing the Invisible Lifeforms That Shape Our World
Rica Fuentes Martinez turns fungi, microbes, and cellular forms into precise ink drawings, poetic systems where invisible ecologies become visible.
Khoren Matevosyan × Woods.center - A Glimpse Into His Expanding Universe
At the Woods Center, Xoromat (Khoren Matevosyan) unveils a new mural that expands his universe of woven myths into a bold public art statement.
SPARK Art Fair Vienna 2026: One Artist, One Vision, No Distractions
SPARK Art Fair 2026 – Upcoming: Solo presentations, top artists & exclusive insights. Join Catapult - The new Munchies Art Club Magazine at MARX HALLE, Vienna, March 20–22. 2026! Catapult - The New Munchies Art Club
Khoren Matevosyan: Weaving Myths into Pixels and Threads
Armenian artist Khoren Matevosyan (Xoromat) blends textile craft with digital worlds, reimagining folklore for a future still rooted in tradition.
Vienna Contemporary 2025: Buzz, discovery, and a closer look at art in Vienna
Vienna Contemporary 2025 at Messe Wien: vivid encounters, sharp installs, and discoveries Munchies Art Club carries forward.
Joachim Lambrechts and the Illusion of Happiness in Contemporary Painting
Joachim Lambrechts paints colorful scenes that question happiness, control, and emotional comfort in contemporary life.
Parallel Vienna 2025: Not a Performance, Just Rehearsal for Press Day
Parallel Vienna 2025 press day at the Otto Wagner Areal unfolded like rehearsal and revelation, mixing fresh discoveries with artists already on our radar.
Oľga Paštéková: Paintings where nature speaks back
Slovak painter Oľga Paštéková turns stains, bleaches, and ghosted lines into wolves, rivers, and lantern-houses, lyrical eco-paintings from Bratislava & Vienna.
Ju Aichinger: Fragile Power in Clay, Costume and Queer Worlds
Austrian artist Ju Aichinger transforms everyday materials into metaphors for queerness, intimacy, and social presence.
Gvantsa Jishkariani Cuts Deep with ‘Trauma Porn’ and Global Spotlight
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.
Ophelia Arc: Sculpting the Psychological Knot
Ophelia Arc’s visceral textile sculptures stitch trauma, memory, and feminist psychoanalysis into haunting forms.
Art Biesenthal 2025 at Wehrmuehle: Some Degree of Friction
Some Degree of Friction, part of Art Biesenthal 2025 at Wehrmuehle in Biesenthal, gathers over 30 artists in a nonlinear, rhizomatic field of sound, sculpture, performance, and image.
Kumkum Fernando’s 27th Century Cabinet: When Sculpture Becomes Furniture
Kumkum Fernando debuts his first furniture piece, the 27th Century Collector’s Cabinet, a limited-edition work of art that blends mythology, geometry, and space-age design, meticulously handmade in Saigon.
Hydra School Projects: Lithos/Lethe curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis
A slow summer walk leads to Hydra Island’s High School, which in summer becomes home to the Hydra School Project. Here, Dimitrios Antonitsis curates ‘Lithos/Lethe’, uniting nine artists in a living dialogue between stone, memory, and place.