Archive of Contact
Liget Gallery presents Asztrid Csatlós and Eszter Metzing in Budapest. Trace-making as relational act, not residue, but ongoing negotiation between body, material, and absence.
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Exhibition
Can Something Microscopic Outlast Our Dream of Immortality? - Stine Deja at Viborg Kunsthal
Stine Deja presents Micro Management at Viborg Kunsthal. A speculative laboratory where tardigrades expose the limits of humanity's immortality quest.
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Exhibition
The Basement Is Where the Power Waits - Esben Weile Kjæ
St. Chads Projects presents Lions by Esben Weile Kjær at King's Cross.Curated by Benjamin Orlow
Read MoreExhibitions: Reviews, Gallery Visits, and Contemporary Art Spaces
Gut Feeling as a Compositional Principle
Jacob Bjørn Gallery presents Abel Kabel "GOT GUTS", figurative painting fusing pop-cultural symbols with personal narrative. Aarhus, April-May 2026.
Still Life with Collapsed Ideology
VUNU Vienna presents Tudor Ciurescu's ELEGIA - taxidermy, painting, and dark wood frames tracking desire after authority's retreat. Through May 2026.
Featured: In-Depth Contemporary Art Features
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
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
Steel Carries What Clay Remembers
Céline Struger works with steel, water, and archaic ceramic forms. A Catapult Artist in Focus on myth, material memory, and the agency of sites.
The Cost of Protection - Stasia Grishina in Focus.
Stasia Grishina works with sculpture and installation. Based in Frankfurt. A Catapult Artist in Focus on power, domestication, and the cost of shelter.
The Landscape That Lives Inside the Bird
Jeyoon Ryu works in ceramic sculpture. Born in South Korea, based in Kyoto. A Catapult Artist in Focus on clay, migration, and transformation.
Artist Interviews: Conversations on Practice and Process
Soft Machinery: A Poetry of Distorted Paths
Shirley Fu on hybrid forms, found tyres, silicone flesh, and the tension between control and chance, in conversation with Di Franco for Catapult
What Does It Mean to Stay With a Material Until It Speaks?
DiFranco interviews Luca Vanello, Brussels-based artist working with installation and sculpture. On matter, attention, and the ethics of making. A ongoing Catapult Interview series
Paul Riedmüller: Painting the Digital Hallucination
Paul Riedmüller transforms AI-generated images into meticulous airbrush paintings. An exclusive interview on reversing digital logic, trompe-l'œil, and the future of painting.
The Living Archive – A Curated Record of Contemporary Art
The Living Archive – A Curated Record of Contemporary Art
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
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Working with Instability The Open Structure of 目［mé］
A close reading of 目［mé］’s collective practice, examining instability, authorship, and perception across Elemental Detection, space, masayume, and Contact
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.
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.