A Shelter Built for Species We Don't Have Names For - Jan Baszak Artist In Focus
Jan Baszak works with sculpture, installation, and textile. Based in Berlin. A Catapult Artist in Focus on interspecies intimacy and post-human shelter.
Artist in Focus
Daily curatorial series spotlighting contemporary artists whose work demands attention. Catapult's Artist in Focus features emerging and established voices pushing creative boundaries, concise profiles highlighting the artists shaping the future of contemporary art, one feature at a time.
The Self Does Not Fit the Reflection - Aziya Ikhtymbayeva
Aziya Ikhtymbayeva works in airbrush painting across figuration and still life. Based in Prague. A Catapult Artist in Focus on perception, migration, and the self that holds still.
Every Temple Has a Snack Machine - Daniela Ponomarevová - Artist in Focus
Daniela Ponomarevová works with installation and drawing. Based in Czech Republic. A Catapult Artist in Focus on post-fairground aesthetics.
Where Does the Skin End and the Fibre Begin? Soojin Kang with an Artist in Focus on Catapult
Soojin Kang works with hand-dyed fibre and natural yarn. Based in Germany. A Catapult Artist in Focus on textile sculpture and the body's threshold.
The Thread Goes Both Ways - Lauren Januhowski Artist in Focus
Lauren Januhowski works with sewn monotypes and embroidery in Paris. A Catapult Artist in Focus on textile, transmission, and the female body across generations.
Romane Charlot: Luminous Structures in Tension
Artist in Focus: Romane Charlot constructs luminous glass installations where light becomes structure, tension and collective activation.
Pierre-Yves Delannoy: Soft Structures of Memory
Artist in Focus: Pierre-Yves Delannoy builds textile environments where the body, memory and marginal histories surface through repetitive gestures.
P.Kim Kimtaegi: Between Mask and Body
Artist in Focus: P.Kim Kimtaegi explores the fragile moment when the heroic image collides with the ordinary human body beneath it.
Yorgos Agrotes: Instability as Method
Artist in Focus: Yorgos Agrotes works with instability, friction and material resistance, turning pressure into structure rather than release.
Julie Wittrup: Material Memory Without Nostalgia
Artist in Focus: Julie Wittrup works with textile and clay to construct fragmented figures and symbolic surfaces where material memory, bodily traces and iconographic echoes converge.
Anne-Joelle Tan: Humiliation as Image Logic
Artist in Focus: Anne-Joelle Tan stages friction between shame and desire, collapsing poor images, surveillance and exposure into unstable painting.
Sungho Bae: Soft Bodies Against Coherence
Through gathering and reorganizing circulated materials, Sungho Bae unsettles systems of classification and stability. In doing so, the body emerges not as a fixed whole but as a constructed condition.
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.
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