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 Here’s why age limits in the art world are outdated.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