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.
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.
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with painting to stage controlled loss, cultural memory, and perceptual instability through material restraint and historical reference.
Can Painting Hold a Body That Refuses to Settle? Michele Gabriele Between Image and Presence
Michele Gabriele works across painting, sculpture, and performance, building figures that test perception, materiality, and the instability of identity
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.
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.
Kristof Santy and the Quiet Power of Everyday Painting
Kristof Santy’s paintings turn folklore, color, and daily life into a restrained visual language. On view at Christine König Gallery, Vienna.
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.
Olga Shcheblykina: A promising artist transforms Contemporary Art with Bold Abstraction
Emerging artist Olga Shcheblykina blends painting and sculpture, transforming human emotions into vibrant, tactile forms that challenge traditional art boundaries
Can an Alter Ego Protect You From Contemporary Overexposure? Artist Spotlight on Grip Face
David Oliver's masked persona Grip Face explores digital anxiety through sculpture and installation. But does the alter ego protect or multiply exposure?
Aurélia Jaubert Uses Textile as a Site of Collision, Not Comfort
Working with textiles, rugs and embroidery, Aurélia Jaubert brings historical technique into friction with contemporary imagery.
Ida Jessenberger Paints Faces That Refuse to Settle
Working between figuration and emotion, Ida Jessenberger paints faces that hold tension rather than resolution.
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.