My work Heroine’s Journey is presented with a full page in the new Aesthetica Magazine, Artists Directory, Issue 128.

The directory is an internationally recognized platform that highlights current positions and tendencies in contemporary art.

The Heroine’s Journey marks an important point in my ongoing exploration of psychological tension, micro-gestures, and the subtle inner movements that surface through the body. I’m pleased to share this piece in this context.

Gallery Makowski Presents
Kurt Stimmeder - The Forbidden Moment
November 6 - December 3, 2025
555 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10001

The Forbidden Moment, Austrian artist Kurt Stimmeder invites us into the charged space between thought and gesture, a liminal territory where emotion precedes language and truth emerges through the body’s quiet expressiveness.

Kurt Stimmeder at Art Miami / Art Basel Week 2025

Together with Galerie Makowski, I will be participating in Art Miami during Art Basel Week, taking place from December 2–7, 2025, at One Herald Plaza, Miami. (artmiami.com)

Art Miami is one of the most established and influential contemporary art fairs in the United States, attracting leading collectors, curators, galleries, and media from around the world. As a central event of Miami Art Week, it provides a significant platform for international artistic exchange.

Create! Magazine x Kurt Stimmeder

Create! Magazine is an international publication based in the United States, featuring contemporary art, emerging artists, and exciting voices from around the world. With interviews, studio insights, and carefully curated content, it has become an important platform for collectors, art lovers, and the creative community.

Good news: Issue 53 of Create! Magazine is coming soon!
This time, some of my works will be featured along with an interview. The big thing - I´m honored to be on cover!

Check back here soon – once the issue is released, you’ll find a link to the full article right on this page.

In a Forbidden Moment: The Art of Painting Hands

I’m honored to share that the renowned American art magazine Realism Today is currently featuring my work. The article, “In a Forbidden Moment: The Art of Painting Hands,” explores my artistic engagement with hands as carriers of gesture, meaning, and psychological depth, and includes several of my paintings.

I’m especially pleased that it also announces my upcoming solo exhibition as well as group shows in New York.

👉 Read the full article here: In a Forbidden Moment: The Art of Painting Hands - Realism Today

Divide Magazine – Issue 15

I am pleased to share that three of my works, along with a short artist portrait, have been published in the latest issue of the independent contemporary art magazine Divide Magazine, based in Toronto, Canada.

You can find my feature on pages 44–47 of the magazine.

View the full issue at the following link:

👉 Divide Magazine – Issue 15

ART021: Shanghai’s Premier Platform for Global Art

Unfortunately, not everything always goes as planned. Due to unforeseen customs delays, the works prepared for Art 21 2025 were unable to arrive in time, and participation in the exhibition could not take place.

We are now exploring further opportunities for presentation, with potential replacement events in Beijing or Hong Kong in the coming year.

The artwork “The Green Trout” by Kurt Stimmeder has been acknowledged in the context of the international Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2025 in the category Catherine K. Gyllerstrom Emerging Artist Award.

The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize is a prestigious international art competition that provides artists with a platform to present their work to a global audience. The exhibition and award ceremony will take place in October and November 2025 at the Haven Gallery in Long Island, New York.

Some of my works are currently viewable on Artsy. The presentation is managed by collaboration partners who have listed current pieces of mine.

Preselection for the 144th Annual Exhibition of the Royal Ulster Academy, Ulster Museum, Belfast (UK)

I am pleased to share that my work "The Green Trout" has been preselected for the 144th Annual Exhibition of the Royal Ulster Academy (RUA), to be held at the Ulster Museum in Belfast, United Kingdom. Founded in 1879, the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts is one of the most established and respected art institutions in Northern Ireland.

The exhibition will take place from 11 October 2025 to 5 January 2026 at the Ulster Museum, one of the country's leading public venues for contemporary art. It presents works across a wide range of media, selected through an open call by an annually appointed panel of professional artists and curators.

The Annual Exhibition brings together contributions from both established and emerging artistic positions from across the UK and internationally. The Green Trout was chosen for the preselection from a large pool of international submissions.

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A poetic short film about the artist’s inner path.

This atmospheric short film (2023), directed by Lesja Kvitka, presents the creative process as an emotional journey. Visuals by Amirali Bashiri (Director of Photography), music by Sashe Urdovski, editing by Ebrahim Eskandari, color grading by Yazdan Zand.

Kurt Stimmeder is followed in his studio, revealing how art emerges from inner movement, doubt, and curiosity. The Hero’s Journey is not only the title, but also a metaphor for the creative struggle and the search for a personal visual language.

“An Old Dutch Dream” was shortlisted in 2025 for the international tARTget Painting Prize, in the Figure and Portrait category. The nomination recognizes his high level of technical skill and his distinctive approach to representational painting.

The tARTget Painting Prize is one of the few internationally curated competitions focused on contemporary figurative art. The shortlisted works will be shown in June 2025 at the historic Ateneo de Madrid, a venue of cultural significance known for hosting both literary and visual arts.