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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Why Jakob Lena Knebl’s Sommerfrische at the Marmorschlössl Stayed With Us
We travelled to Bad Ischl already admiring Jakob Lena Knebl’s work. At Sommerfrische, mythology, fashion, art history and humour meet the extraordinary setting of the Marmorschlössl in an exhibition that stayed with us long after we left.
Kaija Hinkula Makes Signs That Are Built to Misdirect You
An independent review of Kaija Hinkula's You Are Here at Ama Gallery, Helsinki. Its painted wayfinding signs conceal real objects that mislead.
Paulina Semkowicz and the Afterlife of a Painted-Over Wall
Review of Paulina Semkowicz's Residency: The Wall at Galeria S35 in Łódź, a site-specific painting on a wall whose ornament was painted over.
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 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.
The Living Archive
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
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.
Exhibition
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.
Exhibition
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.
Exhibition
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.
Marianna Lomza
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.
Exhibition
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.
Prague
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
Exhibition
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.
Exhibition
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.
