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.
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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.
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Veronika Günther with Popular Problems - The Tiger Room, Munich
Veronika Günther at The Tiger Room, Munich. Drawing becomes spatial, porous and charged with cultural residue.
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Boglárka Dankó: Heresy in the Small Hours.
Boglárka Dankó at Liget Gallery, Budapest. Textile installation and nocturnal figures in a space of refusal and metamorphosis
Paulina Olowska, Caroline Walker, Adéla Janská: Za Pultem (Behind the Counter)at Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc
Paulina Olowska, Caroline Walker and Adéla Janská at Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc. A spatial exhibition on painting, labour and visibility.
Veronika Günther with Popular Problems - The Tiger Room, Munich
Veronika Günther at The Tiger Room, Munich. Drawing becomes spatial, porous and charged with cultural residue. January–February 2026.
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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.
Being visible feels like playing a game I never really wanted to join by Eri Maeda
Eri Maeda on clay, visibility and staying honest on social media. A weekly Catapult series where artists share how they navigate the online world.
How Do Intimacy and Rebellion Speak Through Ruth Devriendt’s Work? A Conversation with Black Swan Gallery and DiFranco
Artist Ruth Devriendt and gallerist Kristoff Tillieu (Black Swan Gallery) join Di Franco to explore vulnerability, resistance, and the instincts that shape their collaboration.
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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.
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Bart Gielen: Timeless Weight
Artist in Focus: Bart Gielen works between drawing and ceramics, where restraint, tension and material weight shape images that resist clear narrative and remain deliberately elusive.
Michael Kærgaard: Repetition as Creature Logic
Michael Kærgaard works with glazed stoneware to stage friction between tenderness and threat through repetition and porous surfaces.
Julia Zöhrer: Textile Images Between Myth and Presence
Julia Zöhrer works with textile drawing and installation to create symbolic, non-linear spaces shaped by memory, ritual, and fragile presence.