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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3.März 2026
Jeehye Song: Hey, I’m still here at Wentrup Berlin
2.March 2026
Anne-Joelle Tan: Humiliation as Image Logic
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Tom Król on The Visible Trace of the Invisible Map
27.February 2026:
Sungho Bae: Soft Bodies Against Coherence
26.Feburary2026:
Martha Kicsiny: Light, Power, and the Material Weight of the Cloud
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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.
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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.
Artist in Focus: Emerging and Mid-Career Voices
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.
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 .
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Jeehye Song: Hey, I’m still here at Wentrup Berlin
Jeehye Song at Wentrup, Berlin. 30 January – 14 March 2026. Installation views and a short contextual overview
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Jeehye Song: Hey, I’m still here at Wentrup Berlin
Jeehye Song at Wentrup, Berlin. 30 January – 14 March 2026. Installation views and a short contextual overview
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.
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
Artist Interviews: Conversations on Practice and Process
Tom Król on The Visible Trace of the Invisible Map
Tom Król Interview with DiFranco: On figuration, dérive, error and why painting remains a deeply human practice in an accelerated art world.
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.
How Does Structure Become Emotion in the Work of Chris Cassimatis? Interview with DiFranco
Chris Cassimatis transforms technical drawings, architecture and sculptural thinking into paintings where precision meets instinct. His interview with Di Franco reveals how structure, color and memory shape his process.
Context – Mapping Contemporary Art Through Curated Themes
Radar No. 12 – Shortlist Artist Signal
Radar No. 12 spotlights Ju Aichinger, Kumkum Fernando, and Hetty Douglas three artists shaping painting and sculpture with fragility, myth, and raw expression.
The shortlist signal. Artist - RADAR #11
Ask Kurt brings three highlights from our latest features. Candy Bassas, Ailyn Lee, and Jie Zhang. Three practices in painting, each extending the medium into spaces of unease, intimacy, and temporal reflection.
The shortlist signal. Artist - RADAR#10
Ask Kurt brings three highlights from our latest features. Distinct practices from Taylor Anton White, Hunter Potter, and Lisa Klinger, artists reshaping how we look, sense, and imagine. Clear voices, sharp visions.
Projects: Unique Artistic Initiatives Beyond Traditional Formats
What Happens When Medieval Tapestries Meet Bleeding Horses and Dead Sunflowers? Olivia Rode Hvass at Luxembourg Art Week
Olivia Rode Hvass transforms The Hunt of the Unicorn into Hunt(ed), a storefront installation during Luxembourg Art Week where jacquard tapestries, failed crops, and class collisions rewrite myth as critique. Curated by Çağla Erdemir
Khoren Matevosyan × Woods.center - A Glimpse Into His Expanding Universe
At the Woods Center, Xoromat (Khoren Matevosyan) unveils a new mural that expands his universe of woven myths into a bold public art statement.
Kumkum Fernando’s 27th Century Cabinet: When Sculpture Becomes Furniture
Kumkum Fernando debuts his first furniture piece, the 27th Century Collector’s Cabinet, a limited-edition work of art that blends mythology, geometry, and space-age design, meticulously handmade in Saigon.
Catapult Uncensored – Independent Commentary on Contemporary Art
Artists Are Funding Meta Ads That Can’t Reach Collectors
Artists spend €20–100 a month on Meta Ads that mostly reach other artists. Here’s why the system doesn’t convert and never really did.
Does It Matter Where an Artist Begins, or Only What They Create?
Whether self-taught or schooled, artists confront the same questions about creativity and career. This piece looks at what really shapes an artistic path today.
Why Doesn’t Art Get an ’80s Fashion Meltdown Moment?
Art has had its own terrible eras, only hidden under taste, history and debate. A short rant on cringe cycles, the art world, artists, and cultural nostalgia.