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
Dominique Catherina Foertig
Beverly Buchanan: Weathering as a Quiet Insistence
Beverly Buchanan at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin. The exhibition has ended, but its material logic and urgency make it impossible to let it disappear quietly.
Camilla Skov: Sculptural Systems of Containment.
Artist in Focus: Camilla Skov works with sculpture to construct closed systems marked by pressure, symmetry and controlled instability.
HAGD Contemporary: Michael Kærgaard and the Logic of Monsters
HAGD Contemporary presents Michael Kærgaard’s Mother of Many, an exhibition of stoneware figures where monstrosity, tenderness, and material force collide.
Ivan Volkov: Absurdity as Social Pressure
Artist in Focus: Ivan Volkov works across sculpture, painting and land art, using tension, instability and material restraint to expose fragile social systems.
Ruo-Hsin Wu: Floating in the Dark
Ruo-Hsin Wu paints faceless figures suspended in pitch-black voids. Taiwan-based, technically luminous, emotionally weightless.
Marcell Menyhárt: Plastic Frames as Sites of Memory
Marcell Menyhárt works with sculptural reliefs to confront artificial memory, loss, and humor through plastic systems and controlled material tension.
Sándor Körei: Mediated Nature as Sculptural Tension
Sándor Körei works with sculpture and installation to stage nature through glass, restraint and perceptual tension, where observation and distance collide.
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.
What SPARK Art Fair Vienna Got Right, Even as It Presses Pause
SPARK Art Fair Vienna stands for solo presentations and curatorial clarity. Why focus, risk, and artistic discipline matter in today’s art fair landscape.
Heti PRACK: Ehrenamt
Heti PRACK at KOENIG2 by_robbygreif, Vienna. A restrained installation negotiating control, anonymity and queer presence within rigid spatial order.
Can Painting Carry Time Without Choosing a Side? Artist Spotlight Ruben Einsmann
Ruben Einsmann uses painting to layer medieval imagery with contemporary symbols, creating surfaces where time, memory, and erosion remain unresolved.
Can Threads Hold History Without Becoming Narrative? Avraam Hirodontis in Focus
Avraam Hirodontis works with canvas, fabric, soil dyes and layered textiles to explore material intelligence, memory and structure without relying on narrative.
Can Painting Hold a Dream Without Explaining It? Artist Spotlight Paes
Paes paints dreams as lived experience, using figurative scenes to hold memory, fear, and self-awareness without forcing resolution.
Nadine Karl creates installations where time, memory, and space fall out of sync. An artist spotlight on perception, slowness, and resistance.
Nadine Karl builds spaces where time and memory lose their grip. An artist spotlight on installation, perception, and the politics of slowness.
How Does Figurative Painting Capture Intimacy in the City?
In her figurative paintings, Maria Naidyonova explores intimacy, memory and social nuance within everyday urban life.
Yutaro Inagaki: When the City Becomes a Second Skin
Yutaro Inagaki paints bodies wrapped in urban armor, where protection, anonymity, and emotion blur into one surface.
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.