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.
Memory & Identity
Articles exploring memory, personal history, and the construction of identity through artistic practice.
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.
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.
Ju Aichinger: Fragile Power in Clay, Costume and Queer Worlds
Austrian artist Ju Aichinger transforms everyday materials into metaphors for queerness, intimacy, and social presence.
Hunter Potter in Contemporary Painting a Homage To The Characters He Admires
Hunter Potter NY Based Artist – Early In-Depth Interview on Sculpture and Painting with Dominique Foertig for Munchies Art Club
Ailyn Lee and the Alchemy of Memory: Bodies, Objects, Transformation
New York–based artist Ailyn Lee merges stone clay, found objects, and painting into dreamlike memory-scapes of identity, vulnerability, and change.
Lisa Klinger: Painting the Body as System
German painter Lisa Klinger treats the body as a system, not a symbol. Precision, surface, and control replace sentiment.
Satoko Okuno: Painting a World Where Guardians Still Exist
Japanese artist Satoko Okuno crafts whimsical guardians in vibrant painting and ceramics, blending Shinto spirituality with emotional refuge.
Rosina Rosinski: When the Body Leaves the Frame
Rosina Rosinski’s textile works abandon canvas for quilted absence velvet, polyester, and emotion stitched into haunting, intimate spaces.
Igigo Wu: The Trauma Wears Wings
Taiwanese artist Igigo Wu merges painting, textile, and performance to confront colonial trauma, diasporic identity, and the politics of memory. Based in Zürich and Vienna, her work evokes rejection, ritual, and histories too brutal for language.
Friedrich Herz Turns Broken Furniture into Brutal Sculpture
Discarded tables, stove tiles, scarred wood. Friedrich Herz transforms everyday materials into raw, poetic sculptural forms.
Kuba Freter: Dreamers Don't Sleep - They Skate, Slam, and Smoke Through It
Kuba Freter’s latest series “Dreamers” blurs reality and fiction in raw, black-and-white images of youth, skate culture, and collective longing. A must-see feature via Munchies Art Club.
Barbara Tunkowitsch: Threshold Landscapes and the Art of Transformation
Dive into the evocative world of Barbara Tunkowitsch’s paintings, where everyday objects transform into metaphors for memory, transition, and introspection
Felix Stöckle: New Face in Contemporary Art from Switzerland
Explore the dynamic world of Felix Stöckle, a Swiss artist whose innovative use of materials and exploration of themes like tradition, rituals, and cultural identity challenges and captivates.
Theresa Ulrike Cellnigg: Exploring Feminine Psyche and Power Through Figurative Art
Discover the emotional and symbolic world of contemporary artist Theresa Ulrike Cellnigg, whose large-format paintings explore feminist themes, personal narratives, and the balance between control and spontaneity