Category: Artists

Erich Gruber is an Austrian visual artist born in 1971 in Bischofshofen, Salzburg, known for drawings and works that move between the unsettling and the strangely tender. Based in Salzburg, he has built a career through galleries in Vienna, Brussels, Paris, and beyond — exhibiting at venues from the Museum der Moderne Rupertinum to the

Few contemporary artists manage to make you laugh and ache at the same time. Harland Miller does exactly that. Working at the crossroads of painting and literature, he has built a body of work that feels instantly familiar yet deeply unsettling — a strange comfort wrapped in a wry British smile. If you have ever

Rose Wylie is one of those rare artists who proves the timeline of an art career is whatever you want it to be. The British painter, now 91, only began receiving serious critical attention in her late 60s — and by 2026, she had become the first British female artist to fill all the main

There are painters who chase trends, and there are painters who quietly build something that lasts. Bilal Hamdad belongs to the second kind. The Franco-Algerian artist, born in 1987 in Sidi Bel Abbès, has spent the past few years turning the daily texture of Paris — its métro exits, anonymous passersby, half-lit cafés — into

Conrad Jon Godly paints the Alps the way nobody else does. His canvases aren’t really paintings in the usual sense — they’re closer to small geological events. Oil paint piled centimeters thick. Heavy ridges that catch the light from across a room. Drips frozen mid-fall down the surface, like glaciers that forgot to keep moving.

Fabienne Verdier is one of those rare artists whose biography reads like a novel. A young Parisian woman who, in the early 1980s, packed her bags and went to China to study with the last surviving masters of traditional calligraphy — at a time when many of them had survived the Cultural Revolution barely intact.

Michael Borremans paints the kind of pictures you can’t shake off. A woman in a dress that swallows her face. A child smeared in red. A man holding an object that shouldn’t exist. His canvases look like they were pulled out of a 17th-century museum — until you notice something is deeply wrong. Critics compare

Adrian Ghenie is one of those rare contemporary artists whose name is uttered in the same breath at Christie’s evening sales and in serious museum curatorial offices. Born in 1977 in a small Romanian town, he became one of the most expensive living painters of his generation in just two decades. His canvases are layered,