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 Here’s why age limits in the art world are outdated.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.
The Living Archive
Martha Kicsiny: Light, Power, and the Material Weight of the Cloud
Martha Kicsiny works with light, lithophanes and historical media to expose the material pressure behind digital systems and technofeudal control.
Jeehye Song: Suspended Between Staying and Fading
Artist in Focus: Jeehye Song stages bodily restraint and emotional instability, where withdrawal becomes a structural position rather than a gesture .
Magdalena Maller: Painting as Collected Experience
Artist in Focus: Magdalena Maller’s paintings bring violence, intimacy and memory into tension through layered surfaces, stitched canvases and condensed scenes.
Bérénice Gaça Courtin: Weaving as Encrypted Memory
Artist in Focus: Bérénice Gaça Courtin works with textile, code and performance to connect resistance history, digital systems and embodied making
Sarah Hischemöller: Presence Without Resolution
Sarah Hischemöller works across painting and sculpture, staging fragile states of presence, tension and perceptual instability.
Kyriaki Goni with Telling the Bees at The Breeder, Athens
Kyriaki Goni at The Breeder, Athens. Installation views and a focused exhibition overview on ecology, ritual and care.
Angelo Volpe: Splatter & Simmer
Angelo Volpe speaks with DiFranco about discipline, visibility, alchemy and the fragile authority of painting in contemporary Italy. Catapult - The New Munchies Art Club.
Michael Beutler at Z33 - Curated by Tim Roerig
Michael Beutler at Z33, Hasselt. Paper, pressure and collective labor turn architecture into a provisional, breathing structure. Curated by Tim Roerig
Christina Gschwantner: Painting as a Moment of Relief
Artist in Focus: Christina Gschwantner works with painting to hold chance, restraint, and lightness in tension, letting pleasure and structure coexist
Boglárka Dankó: Heresy in the Small Hours.
Boglárka Dankó at Liget Gallery, Budapest. Textile installation and nocturnal figures in a space of refusal and metamorphosis
Bart Gielen: Timeless Weight
Artist in Focus: Bart Gielen works between drawing and ceramics, where restraint, tension and material weight shape images that resist clear narrative and remain deliberately elusive.
Michael Kærgaard: Repetition as Creature Logic
Michael Kærgaard works with glazed stoneware to stage friction between tenderness and threat through repetition and porous surfaces.
Julia Zöhrer: Textile Images Between Myth and Presence
Julia Zöhrer works with textile drawing and installation to create symbolic, non-linear spaces shaped by memory, ritual, and fragile presence.
Paulina Olowska, Caroline Walker, Adéla Janská: Za Pultem (Behind the Counter)at Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc
Paulina Olowska, Caroline Walker and Adéla Janská at Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc. A spatial exhibition on painting, labour and visibility.
Emma Bjurström: Painting as Controlled Loss
Artist in Focus Emma Bjurström works with painting to stage controlled loss, cultural memory, and perceptual instability through material restraint and historical reference.
Veronika Günther with Popular Problems - The Tiger Room, Munich
Veronika Günther at The Tiger Room, Munich. Drawing becomes spatial, porous and charged with cultural residue. January–February 2026.
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
Beverly Buchanan: Weathering as a Quiet Insistence
Beverly Buchanan at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin. The exhibition has ended, but its material logic and urgency make it impossible to let it disappear quietly.