ABOUT
THE PROJECT
FVTVRIST ART is a curatorial platform and research-driven network dedicated to identifying and positioning artists who are actively shaping the visual language of the future.
We select and curate artists whose practices demonstrate conceptual rigor, cultural urgency, and a distinct formal language, voices that actively construct the future of visual culture. We are interested in creators who have something at stake, who articulate position, tension, and vision through their work.
Our curatorial focus extends across contemporary art, fashion, design, cinema, and music. The artists we choose become part of an evolving international constellation: a carefully built archive of names we believe will define the next chapter of cultural production.
Selected creators gain access to FVTVRIST’s global network of collectors, institutions, brands, and collaborators. Works may be featured editorially, included in curated presentations, or considered for special commissions in dialogue with our partners.
FVTVRIST ART serves as both an archive and a platform for creators-from every background, region and religion-to showcase their work worldwide.
We welcome submissions from artists working across mediums, including video, digital practices, installation, photography, performance, illustration, and experimental formats. We are particularly attentive to those who challenge form, question systems, and propose new visual grammars for a rapidly transforming world.
OUR MISSION
FVTVRIST ART exists to identify and position artists whose work contributes meaningfully to the evolving language of contemporary culture. We are committed to recognizing practices that demonstrate intellectual depth, formal precision, and a clear awareness of their historical and social context.
FVTVRIST ART promotes Open Calls to discover talent in specific regions or explore thematic subjects. Through carefully structured Open Calls, we research specific geographies and thematic inquiries. Each selection process is reviewed by an international curatorial circle, ensuring rigorous evaluation and a multiplicity of perspectives. These initiatives are not volume-driven; they are research-driven and designed to surface voices that expand discourse and redefine contemporary visual production.
ARTWORK
OF THE MONTH
K.T. Kobel.
Courtesy of Kutlesa Gallery
Statement
For his solo exhibition Hand, Body, Object, Sin at Kutlesa gallery is pleased to present by K. T. Kobel, brought together a new body of paintings developed around a conceptual framework the artist has been circling for some time. The exhibition proposes a way of breaking the image apart, resisting the impulse to make it hold everything at once, and instead allowing meaning to emerge through fragmentation, implication, and moral residue.
The terms that shape the exhibition are understood in deliberately direct ways: the hand as a site of agency, the object as residue, the body as consequence, and sin as a moral atmosphere rather than a religious condition. In Kobel’s work, these elements do not operate symbolically or narratively, but function as structural anchors through which the image is dispersed.
Each work in the exhibition is a vertically oriented painting composed of stacked scenes. Rather than unfolding a linear sequence or depicting a clearly defined action, the paintings originate from implied incidents—events that are sensed rather than shown. Gestures, objects, and bodies appear as traces, carrying the weight of something that has occurred without ever resolving into a single moment. The emphasis lies on how things linger, and how consequence is distributed across fragments rather than contained within a unified image.
This approach reflects Kobel’s sustained engagement with cinema, archival imagery, and moving-image practice, as well as an affinity with photographic logic. Echoing Roland Barthes’ observation that the photographic trace does not simply recall memory but interrupts it, the works resist coherent storytelling.
Images function as interruptions—partial, unresolved, and suspended—leaving behind fragments that
refuse narrative closure. In Hand, Body, Object, Sin, absence becomes an active force. By withholding explicit depiction and resolution, Kobel’s paintings hold onto the sense that something has happened without ever fully revealing it. Meaning is generated through implication and delay, inviting viewers into a space where visual tension replaces explanation, and resonance takes precedence over certaint
K.T. Kobel
K.T. Kobel, "Hand, Body, Object, Sin", solo exhibition at Kutlesa Gallery
Courtesy of Kutlesa Gallery
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HOW TO SELECT YOUR ARTWORK
FVTVRIST ART welcomes all forms of art across various genres and themes, including visual, video, and audio formats. Please follow these guidelines for each submission:
The artwork must be your original creation, and you retain all rights to it;
Artworks must not include any watermarks;
The artwork must be your original creation, and you retain all rights to it;
Images should be at least 640 × 960 pixels in size and not exceed 50MB;
Video submissions should be in MP4 format, no longer than 10 minutes, and not exceed 500MB;
Audio submissions should be in MP3 format and not exceed 100MB;
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