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
The Imprint Stays When the Figure Leaves
Gallery Rechnitzer Budapest presents Inner Spaces. Emma Kling, Júlia Csapó, Eszter Kálóczy on the body's thresholds. Curated by Flóra Gadó, 2026.
What the Archive Doesn't Classify - Nata Varazi and Gvantsa Jishkariani in a Duo Exhibition
The Why Not Gallery presents Catalogue of Sensory Data, a duo exhibition by Nata Varazi and Gvantsa Jishkariani at Fabrika Project Space, Tbilisi, 2026.
Every Fresh Start Carries the Last One Inside It - Review Josefine Schulz
Kunstraum Ortloff Leipzig presents Josefine Schulz's Makeover. On identity as process, the glow-up as loop, and overpainting as method. .
Technology Moved In. The Body Is Still Adjusting.
BERG Contemporary presents Thordis Erla Zoega's Domestic Sci-fi in Reykjavík. AI-predicted sunrises, dichroic light, and the blind as primary medium.
What the Body Inherits Before Language Can Name It
Galeria Piana presents Agata Jarosławiec: We Speak in Echoes in Kraków. Silicone, crochet, and folk heritage as somatic archive. Through 09.05.2026.
The Middle Finger as Serious Argument
Joan Pallé at Centre d'Art La Panera, Lleida: new work on youth, powerlessness, and subcultural refusal as genuine political gesture. Curated by Sjors Bindel Through May 2026.
Can Art Stop a Mine? - Andreas R. Andersson Interview
Catapult interviews Andreas R Andersson, installation artist in Sápmi. On temporary objects, Arctic landscape, and why doubt keeps the work alive.
What We Hide, What We Perform, and What Painting Still Knows! Artist Spotlight Liz Hernández
Liz Hernández paints memory and identity as something unstable, worn, and performed. An artist spotlight on masks, truth, and transformation.
Archive of Contact
Liget Gallery presents Asztrid Csatlós and Eszter Metzing in Budapest. Trace-making as relational act, not residue, but ongoing negotiation between body, material, and absence.
Steel Carries What Clay Remembers
Céline Struger works with steel, water, and archaic ceramic forms. A Catapult Artist in Focus on myth, material memory, and the agency of sites.
Gut Feeling as a Compositional Principle
Jacob Bjørn Gallery presents Abel Kabel "GOT GUTS", figurative painting fusing pop-cultural symbols with personal narrative. Aarhus, April-May 2026.
The Cost of Protection - Stasia Grishina in Focus.
Stasia Grishina works with sculpture and installation. Based in Frankfurt. A Catapult Artist in Focus on power, domestication, and the cost of shelter.
Still Life with Collapsed Ideology
VUNU Vienna presents Tudor Ciurescu's ELEGIA - taxidermy, painting, and dark wood frames tracking desire after authority's retreat. Through May 2026.
The Inner World Doesn't Have an Entrance
LUFT Festival presents Unconscious Paradises at Gallery GAFU in Ostrava. Seven artists on inner space, bliss, and the limits of self-knowledge. April-May 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 Landscape That Lives Inside the Bird
Jeyoon Ryu works in ceramic sculpture. Born in South Korea, based in Kyoto. A Catapult Artist in Focus on clay, migration, and transformation.
Care and Control Share a Vocabulary
Vivienne Sun at a.d.b.k. Nürnberg. Sculptures from medical furniture, resin, and wood suspended between care and control.
Everything That Accelerates Leaves Something Behind
Sinne presents Maija Fox's Hard Shoulders in Helsinki. Cast metal and woven wire where infrastructure and marsh ecology meet. Curated by Markus Aström