Julie Wittrup: Material Memory Without Nostalgia
Artist in Focus: Julie Wittrup works with textile and clay to construct fragmented figures and symbolic surfaces where material memory, bodily traces and iconographic echoes converge.
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.
Anne-Joelle Tan: Humiliation as Image Logic
Artist in Focus: Anne-Joelle Tan stages friction between shame and desire, collapsing poor images, surveillance and exposure into unstable painting.
Sungho Bae: Soft Bodies Against Coherence
Through gathering and reorganizing circulated materials, Sungho Bae unsettles systems of classification and stability. In doing so, the body emerges not as a fixed whole but as a constructed condition.
Martha Kicsiny: Light, Power, and the Material Weight of the Cloud
Martha Kicsiny works with light, lithophanes and historical media to expose the material pressure behind digital systems and technofeudal control.
Jeehye Song: Suspended Between Staying and Fading
Artist in Focus: Jeehye Song stages bodily restraint and emotional instability, where withdrawal becomes a structural position rather than a gesture .
Magdalena Maller: Painting as Collected Experience
Artist in Focus: Magdalena Maller’s paintings bring violence, intimacy and memory into tension through layered surfaces, stitched canvases and condensed scenes.
Bérénice Gaça Courtin: Weaving as Encrypted Memory
Artist in Focus: Bérénice Gaça Courtin works with textile, code and performance to connect resistance history, digital systems and embodied making
Sarah Hischemöller: Presence Without Resolution
Sarah Hischemöller works across painting and sculpture, staging fragile states of presence, tension and perceptual instability.
Christina Gschwantner: Painting as a Moment of Relief
Artist in Focus: Christina Gschwantner works with painting to hold chance, restraint, and lightness in tension, letting pleasure and structure coexist
Bart Gielen: Timeless Weight
Artist in Focus: Bart Gielen works between drawing and ceramics, where restraint, tension and material weight shape images that resist clear narrative and remain deliberately elusive.
Michael Kærgaard: Repetition as Creature Logic
Michael Kærgaard works with glazed stoneware to stage friction between tenderness and threat through repetition and porous surfaces.
Julia Zöhrer: Textile Images Between Myth and Presence
Julia Zöhrer works with textile drawing and installation to create symbolic, non-linear spaces shaped by memory, ritual, and fragile presence.
Emma Bjurström: Painting as Controlled Loss
Artist in Focus Emma Bjurström works with painting to stage controlled loss, cultural memory, and perceptual instability through material restraint and historical reference.
Camilla Skov: Sculptural Systems of Containment.
Artist in Focus: Camilla Skov works with sculpture to construct closed systems marked by pressure, symmetry and controlled instability.
Ivan Volkov: Absurdity as Social Pressure
Artist in Focus: Ivan Volkov works across sculpture, painting and land art, using tension, instability and material restraint to expose fragile social systems.
Marcell Menyhárt: Plastic Frames as Sites of Memory
Marcell Menyhárt works with sculptural reliefs to confront artificial memory, loss, and humor through plastic systems and controlled material tension.
Sándor Körei: Mediated Nature as Sculptural Tension
Sándor Körei works with sculpture and installation to stage nature through glass, restraint and perceptual tension, where observation and distance collide.
Seung-Jun Lee: Drawing as Accumulated Pressure
Seung-Jun Lee builds tension through large-scale drawing, repetition and restraint, where personal fragments harden into spatial systems.