Xenia Lesniewski Hides a Leg Inside a Torn-Open Gift Box
Xenia Lesniewski and Galerie Zeller van Almsick won the Bildrecht ASTORIA Art Award 2026 at Astoria Artshow in Vienna, on view through September 13.
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Explore curated exhibition reviews, gallery visits, and show coverage from contemporary art spaces worldwide. Catapult highlights emerging artists and galleries shaping the future of contemporary art through thoughtful exhibition analysis and behind-the-scenes insights.
Riikka Anttonen Turns the Spinning Top Into a Machine for Metamorphosis
Read our independent review of Riikka Anttonen's Vertere at Sinne, Helsinki, with spinning-top sculptures turning Ovid's Metamorphoses into marble mosaic.
Eva Chenyao He's Bodies Comply Before Anyone Asks Them To
Read our independent art analysis of Eva Chenyao He's Procrustean at COLLECTA in Shanghai, exploring bodily correction, sculpture and control.
Marwa Arsanios Spends Eight Years Asking Who Land Belongs To.
An independent review of Marwa Arsanios’s five-part film cycle Who is Afraid of Ideology? at TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol in Innsbruck, on view through October 4, 2026.
Elena Adamou Finds Sacred Icons in the Weeds Nobody Names
Explore our archive review of Elena Adamou's Iconographies; Tiny Resistance, Crevices and Other Creatures at primopiano, Montesilvano (2026).
Leah Dixon Gives the Wheel a Different Inventor
Leah Dixon with Tartan Tartana at Spiritvessel in Espinavessa, curated and text by Sira Pizà, on view through September 12, 2026.
Kallirroi Ioannidou Paints Bodies That Cannot Decide What They Are
Read our independent art analysis of Kallirroi Ioannidou's Galvanizing Memories at Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning. On memory, myth, and hybrid bodies.
When External Rules Become Internal Convictions
Umrian Gallery presents Soft Power, a group show by Aziya, Bartoníčková, Roztočilová and Šáteková on how power lives inside routine.
Nari Ward Revisits Haile Selassie’s 1963 UN Speech Through Found Materials
An independent review of Nari Ward's Until That Day at DESTE Foundation's Slaughterhouse Project Space on Hydra, on view through Oct 31, 2026.
Roland Reiter Turns Salvaged Vehicle Parts Into Bodies That Refuse a Name
Read our independent review of Roland Reiter’s No matter what it is, but it matters what it could be at Neue Galerie Graz. Exploring sculpture, vehicle parts and posthumanism in Graz.
Daria Maiier and Sofiia Yesakova Turn Violence Into a Ceremony
Read our independent art analysis of Daria Maiier and Sofiia Yesakova at ROAM projects in Berlin. Exploring violence, ritual and materiality.
Maija Fox Leaves Fingerprints on a Material Built to Have None
A Conversation between Ellery and Maija Fox in the OUTPOST courtyard about her exhibition As the sap rises in Norwich: cast aluminium, Baltic granite, and the labour of the workshop.
What a Mountain Gives Up When You Dig a Tunnel Through It
Review of TRANSFER Exhibition at Kulturforum Laßnitzhaus in Deutschlandsberg, where six artists respond to the Koralm Tunnel through archaeology and democracy.
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Ruins That Keep Growing
Musée d'art de Joliette presents Patrick Bérubé's (Ce)pendant, where mycelium, bronze, and silk stage ruins that are still forming. Through September 7, 2026.
Proof of Looking - David Hanes Graduation Show
David Hanes shows I Look at the Royal College of Art Degree Show in London. Twenty small oil paintings drawn from five years of travel, now featured by Catapult Contemporary
Tsvetomira Borisova Suspends an Ancient Gesture Without Resolving it
Read our independent art review of Tsvetomira Borisova's A Hot Day at lo3eto, Vetren Dol, Bulgaria. Exploring myth, fertility and ceramic form.
Too Big for a Living Room, Too Intimate for a Museum
An independent review of Signal V, A Selection of Objects and Installations from the Robert Runták Collection at Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc, through 24 September 2026.
Sebastian Scholz Keeps Building the Room He Never Left
An independent review of Sebastian Scholz's ludo at Global International, Vienna, where objects, drawings and materials return to the logic of childhood play.