Parallel Vienna 2026: Vienna's Alternative Art Fair Returns to the Otto Wagner Areal .
Parallel Vienna returns to the Otto Wagner Areal, September 9–13, 2026. Catapult Contemporary on 10 Artist Statements this year to discover.
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.
The Living Archive
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.
Riikka Anttonen Turns the Spinning Top Into a Machine for Metamorphosis
Read our independent review of Riikka Anttonen's Vertere at Sinne, Helsinki, with spinning-top sculptures turning Ovid's Metamorphoses into marble mosaic.
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.
Parallel Vienna 2026: Vienna's Alternative Art Fair Returns to the Otto Wagner Areal .
Parallel Vienna returns to the Otto Wagner Areal, September 9–13, 2026. Catapult Contemporary on 10 Artist Statements this year to discover.
Eva Chenyao He's Bodies Comply Before Anyone Asks Them To
Read our independent art analysis of Eva Chenyao He's Procrustean at COLLECTA in Shanghai, exploring bodily correction, sculpture and control.
Marwa Arsanios Spends Eight Years Asking Who Land Belongs To.
An independent review of Marwa Arsanios’s five-part film cycle Who is Afraid of Ideology? at TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol in Innsbruck, on view through October 4, 2026.
The Image Falls Apart the Closer You Get
Discover our Artist in Focus feature on Jaebum Joo, whose pixel paintings and sculptures turn personal memory into a public, shared image.
Elena Adamou Finds Sacred Icons in the Weeds Nobody Names
Explore our archive review of Elena Adamou's Iconographies; Tiny Resistance, Crevices and Other Creatures at primopiano, Montesilvano (2026).
Leah Dixon Gives the Wheel a Different Inventor
Leah Dixon with Tartan Tartana at Spiritvessel in Espinavessa, curated and text by Sira Pizà, on view through September 12, 2026.
Kallirroi Ioannidou Paints Bodies That Cannot Decide What They Are
Read our independent art analysis of Kallirroi Ioannidou's Galvanizing Memories at Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning. On memory, myth, and hybrid bodies.
When External Rules Become Internal Convictions
Umrian Gallery presents Soft Power, a group show by Aziya, Bartoníčková, Roztočilová and Šáteková on how power lives inside routine.
Nari Ward Revisits Haile Selassie’s 1963 UN Speech Through Found Materials
An independent review of Nari Ward's Until That Day at DESTE Foundation's Slaughterhouse Project Space on Hydra, on view through Oct 31, 2026.
Roland Reiter Turns Salvaged Vehicle Parts Into Bodies That Refuse a Name
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.
Daria Maiier and Sofiia Yesakova Turn Violence Into a Ceremony
Read our independent art analysis of Daria Maiier and Sofiia Yesakova at ROAM projects in Berlin. Exploring violence, ritual and materiality.
Maija Fox Leaves Fingerprints on a Material Built to Have None
A Conversation between Ellery and Maija Fox in the OUTPOST courtyard about her exhibition As the sap rises in Norwich: cast aluminium, Baltic granite, and the labour of the workshop.
What a Mountain Gives Up When You Dig a Tunnel Through It
Review of TRANSFER Exhibition at Kulturforum Laßnitzhaus in Deutschlandsberg, where six artists respond to the Koralm Tunnel through archaeology and democracy.