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.
Memory & Identity
Articles exploring memory, personal history, and the construction of identity through artistic practice.
Paulina Semkowicz and the Afterlife of a Painted-Over Wall
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Jaakko Myyri Gives the Birds Back Their Silo
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.
Erekle Chinchilakashvili Threads Tbilisi's Memory Through a Steel Frame
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.
Devotion Begins Where Function Runs Out
Skånes konstförening presents Object of Devotion, works by Ville Laurinkoski and Matti Sumari in Malmö, curated by Tawanda Appiah. Through 14 June 2026.
The Everyday Was Never the Easy Subject
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.
Maciej Nowacki and Miłosz Tomkowicz Let the Body Argue With the Monument
HOS Gallery presents Blood Concrete Sun, pairing Maciej Nowacki's queer bodies with Miłosz Tomkowicz's concrete monuments. Warsaw, through Aug 8.
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.
Sofiia Yesakova and Matilde Sambo at Phantom Pförtnerhaus Berlin
Phantom Pförtnerhaus presents Chapter II in Berlin. Sofiia Yesakova and Matilde Sambo on fragmentation, persistence, and material form. Through 12 July 2026.
Reluctance Is a Form of Admission
Galerie 3AP Frankfurt presents "Ungerne," sculpture, photography, and installation by Joschua Yesni Arnaut. Curated by Aileen Treusch.
Complicity Begins in the Act of Looking - Favu Gallery
FAVU Gallery Brno presents Echoes that refuse to fade. Anzhelika Palyvoda, Céline Struger, Sofiia Yesakova on authoritarian memory and the politics of seeing. Curated by Massimiliano Maglione
A Body That Keeps Arriving in Countries Where It Does Not Speak the Language
NAK Aachen presents Elen Braga's first institutional solo exhibition: textile installations on migration, xenophobia, and identity. Through 26 July 2026.