Radar No. 12 – Shortlist Artist Signal
We share with you from our Ask Kurt Artist Picks: Ju Aichinger, Kumkum Fernando, and Hetty Douglas.
Vienna’s painter Ju Aichinger turns fragile atmospheres into gestures that dissolve bodies into space.
Sri Lankan-Austrian sculptor Kumkum Fernando builds mythological robots from wood and memory, icons that link cosmology with the future.
London’s Hetty Douglas strips painting down to raw marks and fragments, creating canvases that feel both immediate and vulnerable.
Ju Aichinger – Painting and Installation from Vienna
Ju Aichinger’s practice moves between painting and installation, staging fragile worlds where figures dissolve into atmospheric space.
Ju Aichinger | Images courtesy the artist.t:
Recent exhibitions include her artist statement at this year Parallel Art Fair.
Follow Ju Aichinger on Instagram for painterly gestures that hover between intimacy and distance.
Kumkum Fernando – Sculpture from Colombo/Vienna
Kumkum Fernando builds mythological robots from wood and pigment, hybrid icons drawn from South Asian cosmology and childhood memory.
Kumkum Fernando | Images courtesy of the artist
His sculptures connect the intimacy of handcraft with futuristic archetypes, recently exhibited at institutions such as MAK Vienna and galleries across Asia and Europe.
Follow Kumkum Fernando on Instagram to enter a universe of mythology, ritual, and invention.
Hetty Douglas – Painting from London
Hetty Douglas works with pared-down canvases where muted tones and raw text fragments act as portraits of everyday life.
Hetty Douglas | Images courtesy the artist
Her visual language borrows from graphic design, graffiti, and abstraction, creating direct but vulnerable registers of expression. Exhibited widely across the UK, her practice speaks to immediacy and intimacy.
Follow Hetty Douglas on Instagram for paintings that balance grit and tenderness.
Three distinct practices, three sharp voices, together shaping how we look, sense, and imagine. Explore the work of Ju Aichinger, Kumkum Fernando, and Hetty Douglas, learn more, and head to their articles.
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