Articles exploring memory, personal history, and the construction of identity through artistic practice.
Niovi Kafantari Paints the Moment an Embrace Has Not Yet Decided
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Explore Niovi Kafantari's The Necessary Other at Opera Gallery London, where oil on cotton paintings rework Titian, Poussin and Delacroix.
Exhibition
Yasy Bachurina Makes New Objects That Look Already Excavated
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Explore Yasy Bachurina's Preserved, Unfixed at Studiya in Seoul, where fiberglass, charred wood and paint make new objects look excavated.
Exhibition
Lucia Tallová Folds Flea-Market Paper Until It Stands on Its Own
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Explore Lucia Tallová's Moving Clouds at PalaisPopulaire in Berlin, where flea-market paper and bent columns mark her Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year show.
Exhibition
Seven Artists Take the Pew, the Horseshoe and the Car Rim Apart
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Seven artists explore ritual, memory and material transformation in AUSGEWEIDET / GUTTED at WAF Galerie, Vienna, curated by Leonie Holtkamp.
Material & Sculpture
The Signature Is Part of the Picture
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Delve into the creative evolution of Danish artist Abel Kabel. Discover how music, graffiti, and crude energy drive his playful yet profound creations.
Artist in Focus
What the Body Carries When the Address Changes
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Rei Xiao works with oil on canvas, painting chimeric figures shaped by immigration and childhood. Based in Brooklyn. A Catapult Artist in Focus.
Artist in Focus
Featured
Paulina Semkowicz and the Afterlife of a Painted-Over Wall
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Review of Paulina Semkowicz's Residency: The Wall at Galeria S35 in Łódź, a site-specific painting on a wall whose ornament was painted over.
Memory & Identity
The Image Falls Apart the Closer You Get
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Discover our Artist in Focus feature on Jaebum Joo, whose pixel paintings and sculptures turn personal memory into a public, shared image.
Artist in Focus
Kallirroi Ioannidou Paints Bodies That Cannot Decide What They Are
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Read our independent art analysis of Kallirroi Ioannidou's Galvanizing Memories at Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning. On memory, myth, and hybrid bodies.
Memory & Identity
Nari Ward Revisits Haile Selassie’s 1963 UN Speech Through Found Materials
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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.
Hydra Island
What a Mountain Gives Up When You Dig a Tunnel Through It
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Review of TRANSFER Exhibition at Kulturforum Laßnitzhaus in Deutschlandsberg, where six artists respond to the Koralm Tunnel through archaeology and democracy.
Exhibition
Proof of Looking - David Hanes Graduation Show
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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
Exhibition
Sebastian Scholz Keeps Building the Room He Never Left
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An independent review of Sebastian Scholz's ludo at Global International, Vienna, where objects, drawings and materials return to the logic of childhood play.
Memory & Identity
Jaakko Myyri Gives the Birds Back Their Silo
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Catapult reviews White Nights at AaltoSiilo in Oulu, where six artists read Alvar Aalto’s former cellulose silo through steel, AI systems, and memories of labor. Curatorial text by Jaakko Myyri.
Digital & Screen
Erekle Chinchilakashvili Threads Tbilisi's Memory Through a Steel Frame
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Read our independent review of Erekle Chinchilakashvili's The Story of a Thread Seen Through the Window at The Why Not Gallery, Tbilisi. Memory, painting and archive.
Exhibition
Devotion Begins Where Function Runs Out
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Skånes konstförening presents Object of Devotion, works by Ville Laurinkoski and Matti Sumari in Malmö, curated by Tawanda Appiah. Through 14 June 2026.
Material & Sculpture
The Everyday Was Never the Easy Subject
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An independent review of Haricot Gallery's group show, What Shall We Do for the Rent? Five London painters turn kitchens, bathtubs and cut flowers into an argument about rent.
Exhibition
Maciej Nowacki and Miłosz Tomkowicz Let the Body Argue With the Monument
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HOS Gallery presents Blood Concrete Sun, pairing Maciej Nowacki's queer bodies with Miłosz Tomkowicz's concrete monuments. Warsaw, through Aug 8.