All in Painting

Artist Spotlight - Simon Hafele

Artist Spotlight - Simon Hafele

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

As a visionary artist, I embark on a transformative journey to unravel the profound depths of the human experience. My artistic practice is a symbiotic dance between imagination and reality, where I strive to transcend the limitations of the tangible world and explore the infinite realms of possibility. My art should captivate the viewer so that they can get lost in the vast horizons of the present. What triggers me to create a painting are the emotions I want to pass on, which is also why people might identify with my works. Instead of letting myself or my art down on the spectrum of political or elite thoughts, I want the viewer to find truth when decoding my works. The layers I aim at are way above that and deal with consciousness and the highest off all. LOVE

Interview with Souad Haddad

Interview with Souad Haddad

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

I see my work as a parallel system of coded information. The flowers, the forms, the textures—they are not just images but systems of meaning, built through labor, through repetition, through the body’s engagement with the canvas. They are a kind of financial metaphor: not in numbers, but in the way they accumulate, resist, and hold value in a different form.

Artist Spotlight - Stanislav Riha

Artist Spotlight - Stanislav Riha

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

In the last three decades, Standa has been creating wall-mounted, cast resin, and aluminum sculptures combined with canvas and gold leaf, and I have been exploring the computer as an art tool for creating digital artwork. All his life, he has loved to create art full of emotions and feelings, "soul," with the satisfaction of fun. He is also interested in the balance and composition of colours and objects rather than the items' reality.

Artist Spotlight - Maria Aparici

Artist Spotlight - Maria Aparici

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

(María Aparici (Valencia, Spain) studies at the School of Applied Arts in Burgos and later moves to the USA where she completes her training, graduating in interior design from the New School for Social Research of New York (1988-1992). Back in Madrid, she continues to study painting with Amadeo Roca and finally obtains a Master’s degree in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts at Madrid’s Complutense University (1998).

Artist Spotlight - Morten Saether

Artist Spotlight - Morten Saether

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

I work with fragments, surfaces, and the slow language of erosion. My images are not constructed as scenes, but uncovered as traces – layers shaped by time, interruption, and quiet transformation. What appears is never complete; it lingers between presence and absence, structure and dissolution. The work invites a pause, a moment of listening, where memory settles into matter and silence becomes part of the image.

Artist Spotlight - John Chehak

Artist Spotlight - John Chehak

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

John Chehak, life-long resident of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is a self-taught, award-winning artist who has been painting professionally for more than 25 years. John’s medium of choice is acrylic on paper and canvas using brush and palette knife. His original work has taken on new and unique personalities with vibrant colors, symmetry, and compelling presentation. Chehak describes his many mesmerizing styles as having developed from the need to “un-trap himself” from an artistic routine to explore other expressive and imaginative opportunities.

Artist Spotlight - Friedhard Meyer

Artist Spotlight - Friedhard Meyer

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

The creation of images in the "New Pointillism" requires a significant amount of time. This highly meditative process stands in stark contrast to the fast-paced, digital age and invites the viewer to appreciate the slow, conscious creation of beauty. The experience of standing before one of these images should be a journey into silence, a rare commodity in today's art world, where shock value is often prioritized over substance. My paintings, beyond their aesthetic beauty, convey a message about the necessity of slowness and contemplation in our fast-paced world.

Artist Spotlight - Stephanie Bing

Artist Spotlight - Stephanie Bing

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

Stephanie Bing (born 1967 in Mannheim, Germany) is an internationally recognized contemporary artist whose vibrant, multi-layered paintings reimagine interiors as poetic sanctuaries. She studied Fine Arts, Painting, Photography, Art History, German, and Literature at Johannes Gutenberg University and the Academy of Fine Arts in Mainz, graduating with distinction under the mentorship of Professor Klaus Jürgen-Fischer and Professor Dr. Vladimir Spacek.

Interview with Stefan Fransson

Interview with Stefan Fransson

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

Stefan Fransson is a Swedish contemporary artist who blends digital collage, sculpture, and organic forms to create layered images. He combines soft tones with sharp contrasts, adding transparency and depth to each composition. His art often features geometric fragments and natural textures that form complex visual structures—through which he explores space, memory, and perception.

Interview with Eva Nordholt

Interview with Eva Nordholt

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

While painting the gold, I enjoy it's beauty and the technique I use. I experiment with different colors, in the gold or silver  and in the shadows, because the standards are never set. This is the technical part on which I focus, compartmentalized is the connotation of sadness and melancholy.  It is an intuitive process rather than something planned or thought out, and it changes as the painting progresses. The figures surely feel protected,  but in a certain way are exposed at the same time because you can't help but wondering what lies underneath, which is the relationship between surface and depth.

Artist Spotlight - Jacqueline Bislimi

Artist Spotlight - Jacqueline Bislimi

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

I’m a contemporary paintress based in Switzerland. My works blends abstraction, symbolism and emotional depth, creating a visual language that feels both intimate and universal. With a distinctly modern sensibility, I’m explore the spaces between forms and feelings, guiding art lovers into dream like atmospheres that often evoke memory, introspection and quiet transformation.

Artist Spotlight - Gloria Keh

Artist Spotlight - Gloria Keh

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting


As I approach my 74th year, various happenings have brought about big changes in my art involvements. I now concentrate more on solo exhibitions and have increased time spent on mailart and the making of art books. I prefer solitude, retreating more and more into the silence of my studio. Art continues to soothe the soul, providing a comforting balm for both mind and body.

Interview with MIYOKO

Interview with MIYOKO

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

I conceive of roses and cranes as living entities endowed with mind and emotion. This perception arises from an inner, multidimensional worldview that is liberated from physical and temporal constraints, within which such beings reveal themselves in this form. What appears there is not the object itself, but the manifestation of mind and emotion; at times, the universal ideals of truth, goodness, and beauty—which each being may inherently possess—are reflected with clarity and dignity within the rose.

Interview with Shimohara Aya

Interview with Shimohara Aya

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

I am interested in the tension between escapism and the weight of the real because I don’t think we ever fully move from one to the other. Screens offer us moments of escape, projection, and imagination, but they are also where anxiety, comparison, loneliness, and desire accumulate. What looks like lightness or play often carries a quiet heaviness underneath. In that sense, fantasy and the ordinary are not opposites in my work—they coexist and constantly bleed into each other.

Interview with Carmen De Alba

Interview with Carmen De Alba

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

I am guided almost entirely by intuition, an inner voice that speaks through the process. When something is missing, the painting carries a sense of visual emptiness; it has not yet found its soul. The moment of equilibrium arrives when that inner voice becomes clear. A sense of fullness rather than excess. That is when I know the painting has reached its emotional balance, and that nothing more needs to be added or taken away.

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