Parallel Vienna 2026: Vienna's Alternative Art Fair Returns to the Otto Wagner Areal .
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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.
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Light Does Not Arrive. It Persists. Galerie Leu Munich
Julia Selin's Sun's Show at Galerie Leu Munich brings process-based oil paintings where light is released from within the surface. Through June 13, 2026.
The Architecture Had Already Become Image
PS ROY presents Gwon Osang's SCULPTURE CENTER 4/4 in Seoul. Photography adhered to foam turns five walls into a virtual interior.
Reluctance Is a Form of Admission
Galerie 3AP Frankfurt presents "Ungerne," sculpture, photography, and installation by Joschua Yesni Arnaut. Curated by Aileen Treusch.
The In-Between Has Weight
Dortmund Kreativ presents Call Me We by lom-of-LaMa at SUPERRAUM . Shared bodies, modified cameras, identity as variable. February 27 to March 27, 2026.
Complicity Begins in the Act of Looking - Favu Gallery
FAVU Gallery Brno presents Echoes that refuse to fade. Anzhelika Palyvoda, Céline Struger, Sofiia Yesakova on authoritarian memory and the politics of seeing. Curated by Massimiliano Maglione
Infrastructure Leaks
Anna Engelhardt and Tina Bxtq present Bleed Through at Galerie 35M2, curated by Zuzana-Markéta Macková through 8 August 2026.
Something is Soft in the Horror Section
Daniel Ferstl sews, inks, and assembles. Vienna-based. A Catapult Artist in Focus on comfort and dread as materials of the same practice.
A Body That Keeps Arriving in Countries Where It Does Not Speak the Language
NAK Aachen presents Elen Braga's first institutional solo exhibition: textile installations on migration, xenophobia, and identity. Through 26 July 2026.
A History That Did Not Ask to Be Quoted
Babst Gallery presents Justin Ortiz: Will I Live Again in Los Angeles.
Can a Painting Prove It Has Hands? The Super Future Kid Interview on Catapult
Catapult interviews Super Future Kid, Germany-based artist in painting and ceramics. On earth, the hand, and making images in an age of image overload.
Giving Has Never Been a Disinterested Act
HOS Gallery Warsaw presents The Gift / Das Gift, curated by Marianna Łomża. Four artists on desire, sacrifice, and the cost of giving.
A Form Doesn't Die. It Comes Back Different.
Ernst Koslitsch at Bildraum 07 Vienna. Formwork timber in altered constellations, curated by Katharina Hoffmann. 17 April – 27 May 2026.
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Return Is Not the Same as Repetition - Kaja Clara Joo / 다시 : DASI / Korean Culture Center Vienna
Kaja Clara Joo at Korean Culture Center Vienna presents 다시 DASI, an installation tracing material return across residencies, industrial histories, and systems of extraction. On view through 5 June 2026.
Wanting to Win Was Always About Not Being Left Alone
Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe presents Finja Sander's site-specific exhibition on grief, intimacy, and collective memory in Ettlingen, through May 31, 2026. Curated by Alex Besta
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When Language Recedes, Architecture Remains
Olivia Rode Hvass's floating reed house at Skt. Hans Psychiatry, Roskilde, part of the nomadic Museet for Samtidskunst. A foam cocoon, a monument to care, built to be burned.
Shame Has a Geology - Dino Cama and Rune Lambrecht at Gallery Fusion
Gallery Fusion presents GRIHODDA, a duo exhibition by Dino Cama and Rune Lambrecht. New paintings, sculptures, and installations through May 17.