The Living Archive – A Curated Record of Contemporary Art
Explore the Living Archive by Catapult (formerly Munchies Art Club). A comprehensive directory of contemporary artists, exhibitions, and long-form features
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The Dead Do Not Log Off Anymore
Raleigh Chapel presented Nicola Genovese's Infinite Stage, Chapter I in London, pairing griefbots and aging bodies in performance and sculpture. Through 28 June 2026.
A Parliament Where Nothing Stands on a Pedestal
JesuitenFoyer Vienna presents PARLAMENT by Jörg Reissner. Installation from scrap MDF, plywood, and canvas, arranged at eye level.
The Organism Was Never the Exception
Karim Boumjimar at Møstings Frederiksberg. Wall paintings, ceramics, and silver casts map the body inside nature's cycles. Through June 7, 2026.
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.
What Happens When Art Becomes Belief? Susanne Wenger at Halle für Kunst Graz
Susanne Wenger Àdùnní Olórìṣà returns to Graz at Halle für Kunst Steiermark. A quiet, overdue rediscovery of art, belief, and a life shaped beyond Europe.
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.
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.
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.
What Can Theatre Teach Sculpture? Artist Spotlight Xiaozhou Liao
Xiaozhou Liao transforms theatre thinking into contemporary sculpture. His installations mix stagecraft, politics and play to question how neoliberal spaces shape our lives.
Why Do ‘Emerging Artist’ Opportunities Still Have an Age Limit?
Open calls and residencies often define ‘emerging artist’ as under 35, but real art careers don’t expire. Here’s why age limits in the art world are outdated.
Who Really Builds an Artist’s Career, and Who Just Collects the Credit
Small galleries invest time, risk, and belief. Mega galleries arrive when it is safe. Everyone pretends this is just how careers work.
The Living Archive
Looking Up Is Also a Way of Questioning the Ground - Rotor Graz
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Rotor Graz presents A Parable for Endings and Beginnings We Don't Know Yet, Part 1: The Giant Bird, with artists exploring mythological creatures, from 29 May to 1 August and 24 August to 5 September 2026.
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After Stone, Dimitrios Antonitsis Lets the Island Dream in Water
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An independent review of Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams) at Hydra School Projects on Hydra Island, curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis, through Sept 6.
Hydra Island
Stitching Memory From What the Archive Discards
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Artist in focus Erekle Chinchilakashvili works with painting, installation and video. Based in Budapest. A Catapult Artist in Focus profile on memory and its erasure.
Artist in Focus
What Cuteness Is Built to Hide
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Clauda presents Olga Krykun with the exhibition Stardust for Tomorrow in Prague, where kitsch sunflowers and kawaii softness conceal memories of war.
eastern europe & DACH
A Body Rebuilt From the Foundation Up
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TICK TACK presents Hannah Perry's Hard Love in Antwerp's De Zonnewijzer. Steel, resin, sound and installation address matrescence and labour. Through 1 August 2026.
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Featured
The Dead Do Not Log Off Anymore
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Raleigh Chapel presented Nicola Genovese's Infinite Stage, Chapter I in London, pairing griefbots and aging bodies in performance and sculpture. Through 28 June 2026.
Material & Sculpture
The Interruption Is Where the Meaning Starts
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Charis Judith presents new marble, bronze and glass sculptures in her Berlin solo studio exhibition We Are Being Carried Somewhere. Feature text by David Sharp.
Material & Sculpture
Space Expands Toward the Viewer. So Does Belief.
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The Edit Gallery presents The Greatest Nation Ever, Yeti’s first solo exhibition at the gallery in Limassol. Paintings, sculpture, and installation. Catapult Contemporary Review
Myth & Folklore
A Room That Reconfigures Itself Has No Fixed Center
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Louis Morlæ fills Tranen with robotic walls, an oversized airbag, and AI-generated films. A solo exhibition about disruption, inscrutable systems, and the end of a legible world. Curated by Toke Lykkeberg
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A Body That Learns to Rot Slower Than the Room Around It
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Pani Domu presents Kamil Kukla's Silva in Poznań. Paintings, gouaches, and sculptures where forests absorb debris and bodies stop resolving.
Nature & Ecology
Alejandro Monge’s Synthetic Future at LA BIBI Gallery in Palma de Mallorca
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LA BIBI Gallery presents Synthetic Future by Alejandro Monge in Palma de Mallorca. Resin and cement sculptures on hyperconnectivity, isolation, and the synthetic body.
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Joan Bonnemaison in Focus, Painting Between Reality and Illusion
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Joan Bonnemaison paints scenes suspended between the real and the illusory, carousels and veils rendered in drowned greens. A Catapult Artist in Focus.
Myth & Folklore
KiefferWoodtli’s AXES at Alvarez Chida in Mexico City
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KiefferWoodtli present AXES at Alvarez Chida in Mexico City. Sculpture, installation, drawing, sound, and solar data map orientation as a fragile act. Through July 10, 2026.
Nature & Ecology
Sofiia Yesakova and Matilde Sambo at Phantom Pförtnerhaus Berlin
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Phantom Pförtnerhaus presents Chapter II in Berlin. Sofiia Yesakova and Matilde Sambo on fragmentation, persistence, and material form. Through 12 July 2026.
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Poison Blooms Here in Permanent Spring
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Anna Mari Liivrand’s Amid Bitter Flowers fills the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia with a fragile garden of poisonous plants, iron, glass, and found objects that refuse to separate the sacred from the discarded.
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What the Moth Does at Night, the Guest Does at Dusk
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Vartai Gallery presents Liump! Fitness? by Laurynas Skeisgiela in Vilnius. Mimicry, moth observation, and Heuriger ritual in a multi-room installation.
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The Pavement Was Always Writing Back
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AMP Gallery presents Min Jeong Park's solo exhibition in Peckham, reading the city's pavement surfaces as accumulations of use and time. Dec 2025.
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Camouflage Means the Landscape Was Already Watching You
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Katharina Busl builds a forest theater at Paltz Biënnale 2026, Soest. Camouflage tarps, silicone masks, sculptural ear forms. On view through June 21.