A Wall That Has Started to Grow
Artist in Focus profile of Lu Cheng, Munich: ceramic and steel sculptures that grow from walls and floors and test what can hold them.
Artist in Focus
Daily curatorial series spotlighting contemporary artists whose work demands attention. Catapult's Artist in Focus features emerging and established voices pushing creative boundaries, concise profiles highlighting the artists shaping the future of contemporary art, one feature at a time.
When the Landscape Walks Back
Meet Prague artist Karolína Netolická, whose large soft pastel canvases bring together dark forests, fragmented bodies and traces of overproduction.
How KiefferWoodtli Turn Tree and Solar Data into Art
Meet KiefferWoodtli, the Swiss artist duo based in New York, translating live tree and solar data into sound, sculpture and immersive installations.
The Signature Is Part of the Picture
Delve into the creative evolution of Danish artist Abel Kabel. Discover how music, graffiti, and crude energy drive his playful yet profound creations.
How does Manu García turn play and studio debris into scenes that feel lived in?
Manuel García Fernández builds diaristic paintings with oil, graphite, and surface memory, where intimacy and object presence blur into tactile, unsettled rooms.
A Shelter That Hardens Under Sustained Stress
Artist in Focus feature on Sophie-Luise Passow: large pastel and pigment works on linen, made on the floor, from Aarhus to Parallel Vienna 2026.
Ruo-Hsin Wu: Floating in the Dark
Ruo-Hsin Wu paints faceless figures suspended in pitch-black voids. Taiwan-based, technically luminous, emotionally weightless.
What the Body Carries When the Address Changes
Rei Xiao works with oil on canvas, painting chimeric figures shaped by immigration and childhood. Based in Brooklyn. A Catapult Artist in Focus.
Alexander Kaye: Systems Under Pressure.
Artist in Focus: Alexander Kaye works with sculpture, light and performance to stage tension, restraint and perceptual friction inside controlled spatial systems.
Leonardo Vargas Paints the Failure of the Image
Leonardo Vargas paints from daguerreotypes and fashion photographs. Based in Strasbourg. A Catapult Artist in Focus on error and erasure as method.
The Image Falls Apart the Closer You Get
Discover our Artist in Focus feature on Jaebum Joo, whose pixel paintings and sculptures turn personal memory into a public, shared image.
Stitching Memory From What the Archive Discards
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.
Joan Bonnemaison in Focus, Painting Between Reality and Illusion
Joan Bonnemaison paints scenes suspended between the real and the illusory, carousels and veils rendered in drowned greens. A Catapult Artist in Focus.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.