The shortlist signal. Artist - RADAR #11
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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.
Daniel Castro: The Art of Visible Invisible
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Daniel Castro moves from Bronx streets to gallery floors, turning clothing and concrete into poetic objects of identity, humor, and authority.
Mariam Akubardia: Night Rooms for Unfinished Goodbyes
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Wolves, windows, and star-cloaks: Akubardia’s paintings and installations turn memory and exile into rooms you can feel.
The shortlist signal. Artist - RADAR#10
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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.
Jie Zhang: Painting Gardens as Thresholds of Time
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Jie Zhang’s poetic paintings at The Koppel Project, London explore gardens as metaphors for memory, growth, and the contradictions of existence.
Candy Bassas: Painting the Pulse Between Silence and Sound
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Barcelona-born, Berlin-based painter Candy Bassas turns water into a nocturnal ritual, cyanotype and oil merging in figurative scenes of unease.
The shortlist signal. Artist RADAR #9
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Artist Radar: Ask Kurt brings three selections from recent features: fresh looks from Tobias Izsó, Oľga Paštéková, and Ophelia Arc, artists who shape how we see, move, and think. Contemporary voices, crisp ideas, sharp visions.
Rica Fuentes Martinez: Drawing the Invisible Lifeforms That Shape Our World
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Rica Fuentes Martinez turns fungi, microbes, and cellular forms into precise ink drawings, poetic systems where invisible ecologies become visible.
Khoren Matevosyan × Woods.center - A Glimpse Into His Expanding Universe
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At the Woods Center, Xoromat (Khoren Matevosyan) unveils a new mural that expands his universe of woven myths into a bold public art statement.
Vienna Contemporary 2025: Buzz, discovery, and a closer look at art in Vienna
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Vienna Contemporary 2025 at Messe Wien: vivid encounters, sharp installs, and discoveries Munchies Art Club carries forward.
Joachim Lambrechts and the Illusion of Happiness in Contemporary Painting
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Joachim Lambrechts paints colorful scenes that question happiness, control, and emotional comfort in contemporary life.
Oľga Paštéková: Paintings where nature speaks back
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Slovak painter Oľga Paštéková turns stains, bleaches, and ghosted lines into wolves, rivers, and lantern-houses, lyrical eco-paintings from Bratislava & Vienna.
Gvantsa Jishkariani Cuts Deep with ‘Trauma Porn’ and Global Spotlight
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In 2025, Gvantsa Jishkariani stuns with “Trauma Porn” at Raster Gallery and joins top shows in Brussels, London, and New York still sharp, still vital.
Ophelia Arc: Sculpting the Psychological Knot
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Ophelia Arc’s visceral textile sculptures stitch trauma, memory, and feminist psychoanalysis into haunting forms.
Art Biesenthal 2025 at Wehrmuehle: Some Degree of Friction
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Some Degree of Friction, part of Art Biesenthal 2025 at Wehrmuehle in Biesenthal, gathers over 30 artists in a nonlinear, rhizomatic field of sound, sculpture, performance, and image.
Kumkum Fernando’s 27th Century Cabinet: When Sculpture Becomes Furniture
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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.
Hydra School Projects: Lithos/Lethe curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis
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A slow summer walk leads to Hydra Island’s High School, which in summer becomes home to the Hydra School Project. Here, Dimitrios Antonitsis curates ‘Lithos/Lethe’, uniting nine artists in a living dialogue between stone, memory, and place.
