> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # The shortlist signal. Artist - RADAR #11 - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/the-shortlist-signal-artist-radar-11/ - Published: 2025-10-02T10:00:44.000Z - Updated: 2025-10-02T10:00:44.000Z - Description: Ask Kurt brings three highlights from our latest features. Candy Bassas, Ailyn Lee, and Jie Zhang. Three practices in painting, each extending the medium into spaces of unease, intimacy, and temporal reflection. - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Context ### We share with you from our Ask Kurt Artist Picks: **Candy Bassas**, **Ailyn Lee**, and **Jie Zhang**. This week we spotlight **Candy Bassas**, turning pools and nocturnal waters into uneasy rituals where cyanotype and oil collide; **Ailyn Lee**, whose layered canvases scrape and conceal to build fragile yet fierce architectures of memory; and **Jie Zhang**, painting gardens as living thresholds where past, present, and future overlap. [Ask Kurt - Get Seen. Get ConnectedAsk Kurt is your entry point into the Munchies Art Club circle: curated visibility, direct access, and features that last. Submission is free. Selection is curatorial.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/munchies-art-club-magazine-314.png)Catapult - The New Munchies Art Club MagazineDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/ask-kurt-header-2.jpg)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/ask-kurt-a-curatorial-global-network-project/) How do artists get featured on Munchies art club? They ask Kurt Fresh ideas and urgent voices, these are the artists on our mind in Radar #11. --- ### Candy Bassas – Contemporary Painting between Barcelona and Berlin [**Candy Bassas**](https://www.catapult-platform.art/candy-bassas-painting-the-pulse-between-silence-and-sound/) paints the tension between silence and sound. Cyanotype merges with oil across her canvases, figures moving through pools and nocturnal waters where comfort slips toward warning. [Candy Bassas: Painting the Pulse Between Silence and SoundBarcelona-born, Berlin-based painter Candy Bassas turns water into a nocturnal ritual, cyanotype and oil merging in figurative scenes of unease.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/munchies-art-club-magazine-309.png)Catapult - The New Munchies Art Club MagazineDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/candy-bassas-artist-music-and-painting-crossover.png)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/candy-bassas-painting-the-pulse-between-silence-and-sound/) Read her in depth article and explore her work Born in Barcelona and now based in Berlin, her work spans painting, printmaking, writing, and music, with recent solo exhibitions at [**LiTE-HAUS**](https://www.lite-haus.net/?ref=catapult-platform.art) and [**Kunstraum Reuter**](https://www.instagram.com/kunstraum%5Freuter/?ref=catapult-platform.art) and inclusion in the [**Dorothea Konwiarz Stiftung ’24**](https://www.dorothea-konwiarz-stiftung.de/?ref=munchiesart.club) duo show *Things Fall Apart*. ![Candy Bassas, Mimosa, 2025, oil, acrylic and ink on canvas, woman surrounded by yellow flowers, contemporary figurative painting.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/10/bassas-berlin-contemporary-painting-2024.webp) ****Candy Bassas:** **Mimosa*, 2025\. 90x100 cm. Oil, acrylic and ink on canvas. Image courtesy of the artist Follow her Berlin-based practice through exhibitions and her [**Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/candybassas/?ref=catapult-platform.art) presence. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/10/candy-bassas-nocturnal-water-scene-painting.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/10/bassas-berlin-figurative-nocturne-painting.webp) ****Candy Bassas:** On the left: **Seeking Nature II* and on the right: **Seeking nature IV,* 2025, 70x100 cm. Oil monotype print. Images courtesy of the artist **What’s the pulse in her pools?** Silence and noise collide. Figures appear mid-shift, caught between ritual and rupture. **Why water, why now?** Because water never settles. It flips comfort into alarm in a single look. ![Candy Bassas, oil on canvas, solitary figure in pink and green nocturnal water, contemporary art](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/10/candy-bassas-oil-ink-canvas-contemporary-art.webp) ****Candy Bassas:** **Uncertain sense of liberty IV*, 2024\. Image courtesy of the artist 👉 Dive deeper into Candy Bassas’ work → [Candy Bassas: Painting the Pulse Between Silence and SoundBarcelona-born, Berlin-based painter Candy Bassas turns water into a nocturnal ritual, cyanotype and oil merging in figurative scenes of unease.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/munchies-art-club-magazine-310.png)Catapult - The New Munchies Art Club MagazineDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/candy-bassas-artist-music-and-painting-crossover-1.png)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/candy-bassas-painting-the-pulse-between-silence-and-sound/) Explore Bassas captivating work! --- ### Ailyn Lee – Painting from Seoul [**Ailyn Lee**](https://www.catapult-platform.art/ailyn-lee-artist/) explores painting as both construction and concealment. Her canvases are grounded in raw gestures and fragmented images that echo architecture and memory, never fully resolved. [Ailyn Lee and the Alchemy of Memory: Bodies, Objects, TransformationNew York–based artist Ailyn Lee merges stone clay, found objects, and painting into dreamlike memory-scapes of identity, vulnerability, and change.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/munchies-art-club-magazine-311.png)Catapult - The New Munchies Art Club MagazineDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/ailyn-lee--artist--2-2.webp)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/ailyn-lee-artist/) More on the Lees\`s world! Trained in fine arts in Seoul, her work develops through layering and scraping, building a visual language that resists simple reading. ![Ailyn lee, depicts a wall sculpture with what looks like A human headed butterfly cut open surgically, wall sculpture](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/10/Ailyn-Lee--Butterfly-Butterfly-Infirmary--2025--stone-clay--paraffin-wax--pastel--acrylic--ceramic-teeth--mother-of-pearl--Hanji-paper--thread--gauze--needle--glass-beads--wooden-drawer--wooden-stool--IV--ink--epoxy--heart-lock--10---10--8-inches.jpg) ****Butterfly Butterfly Infirmary**, organ-pink butterfly relief wired with an IV loop; stone clay, paraffin wax, pastel, acrylic, ceramic teeth, mother-of-pearl, Hanji paper, thread, gauze, glass beads, wooden drawer/stool, ink, epoxy, heart lock, ****10×10×8 in**. Image courtesy of the artist. Group shows in Korea and abroad have placed her paintings within conversations of process and perception. Follow her evolving investigations via exhibitions and her [**Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/ailynlee%5F/?ref=catapult-platform.art)**.** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/10/Ailyn-Lee--Dream-Sipper--2025--Stone-clay--wooden-stool--fur-fabric--gemstone--wooden-table-leg--wooden-mannequin-finger--wooden-shoe-expander--acrylic--string--IV-line--glass-bottle--and-ribbon--35--20x70inches..jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/10/Ailyn-Lee--Lunar-Incubation-2025--graphite--acrylic--pastel--test-tube--glass-beads--epoxy--Korean-hanji-paper--Korean-nobang-silk--butterfly-specimen--thread-on-canvas--10----8-inches-each.jpg) ****Ailyn Lee:** On the left: ****Dream Sipper** \- a spindly totem on a stool with mannequin parts and bottle; stone clay, fur fabric, gemstone, wooden table leg, shoe expander, acrylic, string, IV line, ribbon, ****35×20×70 in**. and on the right we have: ***Lunar Incubation** **, 2025** Graphite, acrylic, pastel, test tube with glass beads, epoxy, Korean ****Hanji** paper, ****Nobang** silk, butterfly specimen, thread on canvas, ****10 × 8 in each** (diptych). **What makes her paintings hum?** Layers scraped, built, hidden. Fragile yet fierce on the same surface. **What happens when she erases?** Absence glows as bright as paint itself. ![A tender yet perilous vision: a seated figure threaded with diagrammatic lines, framed by talismanic crescents and candles, while a hot-pink pomegranate glows like a heart. Memory, ritual, and desire condense into one charged emblem.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/10/Ailyn-Lee--Poisonous-Pomegranate--2025--acrylic--Hanji-paper--Nobang-silk--lace--thread--pastel--graphite-on-canvas--60--36-inches.jpg) ****Ailyn Lee,** ***Poisonous Pomegranate** **, 2025** Acrylic, ****Hanji** paper, ****Nobang** silk, lace, thread, pastel, graphite on canvas, ****60 × 36 in**. 👉 Dive deeper into [**Ailyn Lee’s work**](https://www.catapult-platform.art/ailyn-lee-artist/?utm%5Fsource=shortlist-signal&utm%5Fmedium=internal&utm%5Fcampaign=radar-11)**!** --- ### Jie Zhang – Painting gardens as thresholds of time **Jie Zhang** turns gardens into spaces where past, present, and imagined futures overlap. [Jie Zhang: Painting Gardens as Thresholds of TimeJie Zhang’s poetic paintings at The Koppel Project, London explore gardens as metaphors for memory, growth, and the contradictions of existence.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/munchies-art-club-magazine-313.png)Catapult - The New Munchies Art Club MagazineDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/jie-zhang--artist-1.webp)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/jie-zhang-painting-gardens-as-thresholds-of-time/) Nature calls, you follow! Her paintings stage thresholds of memory and time, where plants and paths suggest shifting states rather than fixed scenes. ![Jie Zhang garden painting in what looks like a field of green with light blue flowers with a woman that looks like the artist](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/10/jie-zhang-contemporary-artist-china-london-poetic.jpg) ****Jie Zhang :** **Was, am, will be, In the garden* 2023 oil on canvas 60x50cm. Image courtesy of the artist Trained in both China and Germany, she works with oil on canvas to hold transient atmospheres, showing how cultivated landscapes can act as living archives. Recent exhibitions highlight her approach to painting as a meditative passage. ![2 cyan blue paintings by the artist one of a woman and one of a sky like depiction hanging on the wall](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/10/jie-zhang-figurative-abstract-painting-nature-contemporary.jpg) ****Jie Zhang**: **Dense Forest*. Oil on canvas. 60x40cm 2025\. Image courtesy of the artis Follow her painterly gardens through exhibitions and her [**Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/zhangzhi.studio/?ref=catapult-platform.art) presence. **What grows inside her gardens?** Memories, cycles, and whispers of time. **Why does the garden matter?** It is both archive and future, a bridge across cultures. ![Jie Zhang artist Installation view of painting and sculpture, exhibition. Image courtesy of the artist](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/10/jie-zhang-garden-inspired-contemporary-painting.webp) ****Jie Zhang**: Installation view. Image courtesy of the artist 👉 Dive deeper into [**Jie Zhang’s work**](https://www.catapult-platform.art/jie-zhang-painting-gardens-as-thresholds-of-time/)! --- ### Read on: [Alessio Guano: The IntroFunction DialogueAnd still, there is critique, there is language, there is presence – Alessio Guano transforms each fragment into a universe of its own. Now in conversation with DiFranco for Munchies Art Club.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/munchies-art-club-magazine-315.png)Catapult - The New Munchies Art Club MagazineDi Franco![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/Alessio-Guano-ph-3-1.png)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/alessio-guano-the-introfunction-dialogue/) [🌿 Stefanie Pullin: A Lisbon-Based Painter Redefining Nature in Contemporary ArtStefanie Pullin explores the sacred tensions between instinct, nature, and memory in lush, haunted canvases that blur reality with reverie. A new voice from Lisbon, grounded in roots, ruin, and radical slowness.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/munchies-art-club-magazine-316.png)Catapult - The New Munchies Art Club MagazineDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/stefanie-pullin-1.jpg)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/stefanie-pullin-artist/) [Rosina Rosinski: When the Body Leaves the FrameRosina Rosinski’s textile works abandon canvas for quilted absence—velvet, polyester, and emotion stitched into haunting, intimate spaces.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/munchies-art-club-magazine-317.png)Catapult - The New Munchies Art Club MagazineDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/rosina-rosinski.webp)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/rosina-rosinski-female-artist-contemporary-painting-2024/)