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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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.
Yuma Radne and the Return of Myth in Contemporary Painting
How Yuma Radne brings Buryat mythology into contemporary painting, exploring identity, memory, and myth through vivid, symbolic works.
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Ida Jessenberger Paints Faces That Refuse to Settle
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Working between figuration and emotion, Ida Jessenberger paints faces that hold tension rather than resolution.
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Can a Painting Remember Its Own Ghost?
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Billy Bagilhole explores memory, residue and surface through painting and film, where marks feel haunted rather than finished.
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Who Really Builds an Artist’s Career, and Who Just Collects the Credit
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Small galleries invest time, risk, and belief. Mega galleries arrive when it is safe. Everyone pretends this is just how careers work.
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Can Thread Remember the Body? Artist Spotlight Yali Romagoza
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Cuban-born artist Yali Romagoza transforms linen and performance into acts of healing. Her textile sculptures unravel migration into belonging.
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What Happened to Jerry Gogosian’s Mission?
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Once the art world’s sharpest critic, Jerry Gogosian now sounds like the system she used to expose, and no one knows why.
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Where Do Expectations Go When They're Misunderstood?
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Egor Lovki's "I smiled but misunderstood" at Bildraum 01 turns cultural expectations into textile archaeology. Vienna Art Week, closes Dec 4.
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Yuma Radne and the Return of Myth in Contemporary Painting
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How Yuma Radne brings Buryat mythology into contemporary painting, exploring identity, memory, and myth through vivid, symbolic works.
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How Do You Honor Tradition While Breaking It? Bob Geerts and Glenn Barkley at HAGD Contemporary
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Geerts' tattooed paintings meet Barkley's ceramic sculptures at HAGD Contemporary, Aalborg. Curated by Rasmus Peter Fischer.
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Can Painting Slow You Down in a Fast World? Ellen Claes
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Ellen Claes paints overlooked infrastructure and asks whether slowing down can become a form of resistance.
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Building Shadows Together: How Minecraft Rewrote the Architecture of Community
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Millions learn visual thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration in games, without calling it art. What kind of artists emerge when creation becomes the default?
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Is the Art Fair Era Cracking or Evolving?
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2025 was the year art fairs stopped performing and started changing. Collaboration reshaped visibility and community as the art world prepared for 2026.
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Engage, Bitches!
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Monday Bitch #4: Posting on Instagram and vanishing? That’s not mysterious, it’s invisible. Community is currency. Speak up or fade out.
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How Does Grief Mutate When You Stop Trying to Heal It?
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Seven artists at SLUG Leipzig explore grief as active force, not passive wound. "Dead Dogs Don't Die" rejects closure narratives. Closing Date 9.November 2025.
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How does Manu García turn play and studio debris into scenes that feel lived in?
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Manuel García Fernández builds diaristic paintings with oil, graphite, and surface memory, where intimacy and object presence blur into tactile, unsettled rooms.
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Who are the three artists reshaping how we see objects, bodies, and systems?
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Radar #13: Maria Luz elevates everyday Lisbon in paint and film, Seung-yeon Jung maps shared space across media, and Stefan Bakmand draws neon spore cosmologies.
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Which social fits your voice today: Instagram, TikTok, or LinkedIn?
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Because they sell different things. Instagram sells applause, TikTok sells talk, LinkedIn sells outcomes. Use each on purpose or get used by them.
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Who Profits When Art is Resold? Spoiler: Not the Artist!
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Visual artists don’t get royalties when their work resells, even if it sells for ten times more. Maybe it’s time that changed.
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How necessary is a personal website as an artist? And are websites still a thing?
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Yes. Think Neo seeing the Matrix. Once you switch it on, the noise drops and the work reads. Catapult - uncensored