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
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Ruo-Hsin Wu: Floating in the Dark
Ruo-Hsin Wu paints faceless figures suspended in pitch-black voids. Taiwan-based, technically luminous, emotionally weightless.
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.
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.
How Does Figurative Painting Capture Intimacy in the City?
In her figurative paintings, Maria Naidyonova explores intimacy, memory and social nuance within everyday urban life.
Yutaro Inagaki: When the City Becomes a Second Skin
Yutaro Inagaki paints bodies wrapped in urban armor, where protection, anonymity, and emotion blur into one surface.
David Rosado: Rejecting Harmony in Contemporary Painting
David Rosado rejects visual comfort, using painting to compress street energy into unstable, emotionally charged images.
Sune Christiansen Went From Graphic Design to Painting and Never Looked Back
Graphic design trained, painter by conviction. Discover how Sune Christiansen turned color, play and instinct into a distinct painting language.
Kristof Santy and the Quiet Power of Everyday Painting
Kristof Santy’s paintings turn folklore, color, and daily life into a restrained visual language. On view at Christine König Gallery, Vienna.
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.
Olga Shcheblykina: A promising artist transforms Contemporary Art with Bold Abstraction
Emerging artist Olga Shcheblykina blends painting and sculpture, transforming human emotions into vibrant, tactile forms that challenge traditional art boundaries
Can an Alter Ego Protect You From Contemporary Overexposure? Artist Spotlight on Grip Face
David Oliver's masked persona Grip Face explores digital anxiety through sculpture and installation. But does the alter ego protect or multiply exposure?
Aurélia Jaubert Uses Textile as a Site of Collision, Not Comfort
Working with textiles, rugs and embroidery, Aurélia Jaubert brings historical technique into friction with contemporary imagery.
Can a Painting Remember Its Own Ghost?
Billy Bagilhole explores memory, residue and surface through painting and film, where marks feel haunted rather than finished.