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
A Sculpture No One Is Allowed to Enter, Repaired by Everyone Anyway
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This review documents Reparaturgesellschaft, a group exhibition featuring eight artists at the Wewerka Pavilion, which ran through August 2, 2026.
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Roland Reiter Turns Salvaged Vehicle Parts Into Bodies That Refuse a Name
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Read our independent review of Roland Reiter’s No matter what it is, but it matters what it could be at Neue Galerie Graz. Exploring sculpture, vehicle parts and posthumanism in Graz.
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What We See, What Looks Back at Us at Emergency Space, Paris
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Read our review of the group show What We See, What Looks Back at Us at Emergency Space, Paris, on the mutual gaze between object and viewer. Curated by Egor Miroshnichenko
Absence & Form
Too Big for a Living Room, Too Intimate for a Museum
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An independent review of Signal V, A Selection of Objects and Installations from the Robert Runták Collection at Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc, through 24 September 2026.
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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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Erekle Chinchilakashvili Threads Tbilisi's Memory Through a Steel Frame
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Read our independent review of Erekle Chinchilakashvili's The Story of a Thread Seen Through the Window at The Why Not Gallery, Tbilisi. Memory, painting and archive.
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Ruins That Keep Growing
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Musée d'art de Joliette presents Patrick Bérubé's (Ce)pendant, where mycelium, bronze, and silk stage ruins that are still forming. Through September 7, 2026.
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Devotion Begins Where Function Runs Out
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Skånes konstförening presents Object of Devotion, works by Ville Laurinkoski and Matti Sumari in Malmö, curated by Tawanda Appiah. Through 14 June 2026.
Material & Sculpture
The Everyday Was Never the Easy Subject
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An independent review of Haricot Gallery's group show, What Shall We Do for the Rent? Five London painters turn kitchens, bathtubs and cut flowers into an argument about rent.
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Proof of Looking - David Hanes Graduation Show
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David Hanes shows I Look at the Royal College of Art Degree Show in London. Twenty small oil paintings drawn from five years of travel, now featured by Catapult Contemporary
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Leonardo Vargas Paints the Failure of the Image
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Leonardo Vargas paints from daguerreotypes and fashion photographs. Based in Strasbourg. A Catapult Artist in Focus on error and erasure as method.
Artist in Focus
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
Maciej Nowacki and Miłosz Tomkowicz Let the Body Argue With the Monument
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HOS Gallery presents Blood Concrete Sun, pairing Maciej Nowacki's queer bodies with Miłosz Tomkowicz's concrete monuments. Warsaw, through Aug 8.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.