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 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 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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Maria Luz: Contemporary painting and film photography of everyday objects in Lisbon
Maria Luz paints and photographs everyday urban objects with clear light and exact color, turning overlooked scenes into calm, durable images.
What We're Checking Out This Weekend: Diego Bianchi at Halle für Kunst Steiermark
Bodies that glitch. Errors that look human. Diego Bianchi's Errores Irreales opens today at Halle für Kunst Steiermark, Graz our Friday pick
Matthias Esch: Patterns that remember the body
Berlin-based painter Matthias Esch turns ornament and diagrams into humane structures, paintings where order rests on a living ground.
Can You Respawn as an Artist? Tin Trohar at Klubhaus
After 10 years of glitter paintings, Tin Trohar's "1996" at Klubhaus marks a radical respawn. Five paintings. One catharsis. On view at Klubhaus Wien by Alexander Giese and Christof Habres
Can Artists Be Replaced?
Let the tool make pictures. Artists make meaning. That’s non-replaceable.
Who gets paid when fashion says it “loves art”?
Often the brand banks it and calls it inspiration. The rare proper collab names and pays the artist. Same runway, two scripts, very different endings.
Charlie Stein: What Happens When Everything Not Saved Is Lost?
Charlie Stein's new exhibition explores memory, intimacy, and survival through painting as analog archive. Kunsthalle II, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, till 20. March 2026 Munchies Art Club Friday Dispatch looks closer to the exhibition.
Seung-yeon Jung: Between Bodies and the Spaces They Share
Seung-yeon Jung builds quiet ecologies of belonging, turning distance and dialogue into painting, performance, and lived experience.
The Politics of Showing Art
Can we separate art from politics? Why showing a Russian artist feels wrong while a Ghanaian feels right, a reflection on bias and art’s true freedom.
Monday Bitch #1. The Thank-You That Never Came
A short art-world exorcism every Monday. One thought, one scream, one deep breath after.
Stefan Bakmand: Neon Spores, Tender Diagrams
Stefan Bakmand maps a mycelial cosmology in neon and ink, where spores turn into myths and paper feels alive.
Ibrahim Mahama at Kunsthalle Wien: When History Becomes Material
At Kunsthalle Wien, Ibrahim Mahama transforms discarded metal bowls into a monumental reflection on labor, memory, and global history.
Radar No. 12 – Shortlist Artist Signal
Radar No. 12 spotlights Ju Aichinger, Kumkum Fernando, and Hetty Douglas three artists shaping painting and sculpture with fragility, myth, and raw expression.
Eliane Diur: Rooms Where an Avatar Learns to See
Eliane Diur paints layered oil scenes in Leipzig: a recurring avatar moves through rooms, curtains, and windows to turn looking into patient self-inquiry.
Backlinks: The One Click That Changes Everything
Backlinks. The word sounds painfully dull, but it is the simplest, smartest thing most artists still don’t do.
Behind the Curtain: What I’ve Learned About Fake Followers and Art Platforms!
A no-fluff look at fake followers on Instagram art platforms, algorithm backlash, and why real connection still wins in the art world.
Why Are You on Instagram as an Artist? An Honest, Realistic Look for Artists!
Instagram is a $71 billion ad machine that doesn't owe you anything. You're creating free content for Meta's shareholders while calling it your 'art career.' Here's what nobody tells you: most artists on Instagram will never make a living from it. But let's be honest about why.
Selver Yildirim : An Interview with an promising Artist
Selver Yildirim contemporary artist portrait and interview focused on her residency in the beautiful landscape of Cappadocia, Turkey