Candy Bassas Paints Bathers Who Never Fully Leave the Dark
Read our independent review of Candy Bassas' dancing lights at Galerie Mellies in Detmold. Exploring light, water, the figure and oil painting.
Dominique Catherina Foertig
Why Jakob Lena Knebl’s Sommerfrische at the Marmorschlössl Stayed With Us
We travelled to Bad Ischl already admiring Jakob Lena Knebl’s work. At Sommerfrische, mythology, fashion, art history and humour meet the extraordinary setting of the Marmorschlössl in an exhibition that stayed with us long after we left.
Krys Huba Paints the Woman Who Slept With the Lights On
Read our independent review of Krys Huba's falling into you at soft power, Berlin: oil paintings built on JenniCam screenshots, until October 17.
Zofia Pałucha Paints What a Three-Word Bio Leaves Out
Interview and Review of Zofia Pałucha's Mother of One at HOS Gallery, Warsaw. Motherhood, the body and the digital image, through Nov 7, 2026.
What the Body Carries When the Address Changes
Rei Xiao works with oil on canvas, painting chimeric figures shaped by immigration and childhood. Based in Brooklyn. A Catapult Artist in Focus.
Sari Palosaari Maps Lichen onto Images of the Earliest Galaxies
Read our independent art analysis of Sari Palosaari's Substrate at Forum Box in Helsinki. Exploring lichen casts, solar panels and found metal.
Tillmann Lauterbach and Weseeclearly Let Stone and Fabric Answer Each Other
Archive review of Field Work by Tillmann Lauterbach and Weseeclearly at Factory Eleven, Milan, 2026: stone, dyed fabric and geometry in one hall.
Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė Set a Table Where Every Chair Holds the Same Face
Review of I Think My Body No Longer Belongs to Me at roam projects e. V., Berlin, with Tütar Gallery. Painting, sculpture and video on autonomy.
Kaija Hinkula Makes Signs That Are Built to Misdirect You
An independent review of Kaija Hinkula's You Are Here at Ama Gallery, Helsinki. Its painted wayfinding signs conceal real objects that mislead.
Five Positions Measure How Fast a Body Can Be Shipped
Read our independent art analysis of Sequence for an Optimal Dispatch at aaaa nordhavn in Copenhagen. Exploring logistics, rhythm & sculpture.
The Rumor Was Never the Weak Version of the Truth
Nine artistic positions cast gossip as feminist resistance and collective knowledge at ACUD Galerie, Berlin, in an exhibition curated by Colette Patterson that ran through September 20, 2026.
Amelia Woroszyl Treats Superstition as a Design Principle
Read our review of Amelia Woroszyl's Silly! Devil! at Crum Heaven in Stockholm, curated by Marianna Lomza. On talismans and decorative excess.
Niki Danai Chania Will Not Let the Lamia Close Her Eyes
Read our independent review of Niki Danai Chania's Lamiae at the Agora, Bonifacio, part of De Renava's Nimu Dormi, the third edition of the Biennale of Bonifacio, through Nov 5, 2026.
Nina Bachmann Finds the Vocabulary of the Hunt Inside Rush Hour
Read our review of Nina Bachmann's Schieben, Drücken, Treiben at Galerie Gegen & Lücke, Berlin. On painting, crowding, and rush hour pressure.
Xenia Lesniewski Hides a Leg Inside a Torn-Open Gift Box
Xenia Lesniewski and Galerie Zeller van Almsick won the Bildrecht ASTORIA Art Award 2026 at Astoria Artshow in Vienna, on view through September 13.
Alexander Kaye: Systems Under Pressure.
Artist in Focus: Alexander Kaye works with sculpture, light and performance to stage tension, restraint and perceptual friction inside controlled spatial systems.
Leonardo Vargas Paints the Failure of the Image
Leonardo Vargas paints from daguerreotypes and fashion photographs. Based in Strasbourg. A Catapult Artist in Focus on error and erasure as method.
Astoria Artshow, Vienna's Galleries Build Their Own Art Fair - First Review
An editorial review of Astoria Artshow, the gallery-led fair running from September 10 to 13, 2026, inside Vienna's historic Astoria Garage.