Curator on the Go

Curator on the Go Elizaveta is an independent art curator. She organizes exhibitions & art events and shares her curatorial journey in the art world via blogging.

In love with Mariko Kobayashi's work 😍Mariko Kobayashi Mariko Kobayashi / 小林万里子 (b. 1987, Osaka, Japan) graduated with a...
06/13/2026

In love with Mariko Kobayashi's work 😍

Mariko Kobayashi Mariko Kobayashi / 小林万里子 (b. 1987, Osaka, Japan) graduated with an MA in Fine Art Textile at Tama Art Universi- ty in 2012. The artist depicts various connections in the world through textile techniques such as weaving, dyeing, knitting, and stitching. Her artistic concept is based on the awareness of being conscious in the present moment, as we continue our lives as mortal beings. Kobayashi’s work traces the long journey of how the flesh, the physical body that separates humans and animals, returns to the earth, and continues a new life after reincarnation. Her exploration attempts to unravel the essential form of life, which is rendered in chaos created by the overlaying of colours and shapes from different materials.

More and more of my time belongs to Emily these days. She’s constantly on the move, curious about everything, and someho...
06/07/2026

More and more of my time belongs to Emily these days. She’s constantly on the move, curious about everything, and somehow manages to find the one thing in the room she’s not supposed to touch. I feel like I need eyes in the back of my head at all times.👀

I’m also still learning to make peace with doing less. Some days I feel behind. Some days I wonder if everyone else is somehow managing it all better than I am. But most days, when I look at Emily’s smile or watch her discover something for the first time, I’m reminded that slowing down isn’t falling behind.🐣

If you’ve been thinking about booking a consultation and getting guidance on your art career, know that your support means even more to me this time as I navigate this beautiful, exhausting, and very full season of motherhood. 🙏🏻

David Smalling (b. Kingston, Jamaica) is a New York City-based artist whoexplores how taboos and cultural hierarchies s...
06/05/2026

David Smalling (b. Kingston, Jamaica) is a New York City-based artist who
explores how taboos and cultural hierarchies shape the way we see ourselves and others.

“I’m interested in how beauty, shame, and aspiration get encoded into the image and how the surface of a painting can reveal the deeper mechanics of desire and fear.

I draw from the language of Old Master portraiture and the theatricality of fashion and mise-en-scène. The figures in my paintings often hover between sincerity and satire, parody and confession. They come from my own life (from friendships and betrayals, from intimacy and ambition) refracted through the aesthetic systems I grew up revering and resisting.

The paintings are, in a sense, self-portraits of negotiation: between histories, between the person I was taught to be and the one I became. I think of my practice as a kind of reconstruction. Each work borrows from Mannerism and the Dutch Golden Age — traditions built on illusion — but I use those same techniques to undo the illusions themselves. Within the lacquered surfaces and artificial light, I’m searching for something closer to truth: a recognition that artifice, too, can be honest.”

A baby will make you realise -How loved you are, and how tired you are.How soft you are, and how strong you can be.How m...
05/31/2026

A baby will make you realise -
How loved you are, and how tired you are.
How soft you are, and how strong you can be.
How much you are needed, and how much you need.

How far you would go, and how little you really know.
How much time you don’t have, and how many important things you do.
How happy you can be, and how low some days find yra.
How perfect you are to someone,
and how much you need to work on for them.

A baby will make you realise things you never knew about yourself,
but that you really needed to know, and take all of that, and love you for it.
Because you are their realisation, every day,
of what it is to be loved.

-Emma Heaphy, ‘Motherhood to Me’ book

05/27/2026

Yeon Kyung Park’s atmospheric still-life paintings come from Park’s desire to capture life’s overlooked moments. Inspired by quiet moments like the “feeling I felt in the moment of dawn”, Park aims to “express those daily short moments of peacefulness”. Park’s distinct painting style uses tone-on-tone color and a light hand to soften the paint gestures into dreamy, soft-edged forms – both representing an object and the abstract idea of a memory of a given moment.

Yujeong Hwang is a Seoul and New York City-based artist and educator who blends traditional techniques with contemporar...
05/25/2026

Yujeong Hwang is a Seoul and New York City-based artist and educator who blends traditional techniques with contemporary themes.

Yujeong works across various mediums to create visual pieces that explore personal narratives, memories, and their connection to layers of space and time. Through her art, she seeks to inspire dialogue and invite viewers into a shared space of reflection and discovery.

I recently came across an artist’s Instagram page and immediately fell in love with their work. I clicked on his profile...
05/24/2026

I recently came across an artist’s Instagram page and immediately fell in love with their work. I clicked on his profile ready to follow and explore, but…..

But as I scrolled, there were almost no still images of the artworks themselves; only reels of the artist talking to the camera, then shifting the focus to the artwork. I kept scrolling through the posts hoping to finally see the paintings, the details, the actual work that drew me in the first place. In less than a minute I lost interest and left the page.

Artists, stop overthinking content to the point where the artwork becomes secondary! Your audience does not follow you because they expect you to become an entertainer. They follow because they want to connect with the work. It should not be hidden behind trends, excessive talking, or constant attempts to “perform” for the algorithm.

Yes, storytelling matters. Personality matters. But if someone lands on your page and cannot quickly understand what you create, you are creating friction between the audience and the work. Sometimes the strongest strategy is also the simplest, show the art consistently without overcomplicating it.

Ask yourself: if someone discovered your page today, would they immediately understand your artistic practice within the first 10 seconds? Let’s discuss in the comments ⬇️

05/23/2026

At the core of Hu Yuehua’s .art practice is the integration of natural elements with traditional handicrafts, creating a deeply contemporary interpretation of Oriental aesthetics. Through textiles, plant fibers, traditional fabrics, and organic composite materials, the artist bridges intangible cultural heritage techniques with contemporary visual language.

Her works exist in a fluid state between craft, sculpture, and installation, carrying a quiet sense of movement and life. Rooted in research across regional cultures in China, from the totemic traditions of the Yi people and the terraced landscapes of Yunnan to the cultural histories of Qiandongnan and Tibetan regions, Hu Yuehua weaves together nature and humanity, tradition and modernity.

Using locally sourced materials and forms, her practice explores how cultural identities take root, evolve, and interact within their own ecosystems. Rather than preserving heritage as something static, Hu Yuehua reimagines traditional craft as a living, evolving language — one that continues to grow, adapt, and speak to the present moment.

Igor Hosnedl has developed a highly singular style of painting, characterized by carefully aligned color tones, flowing...
05/23/2026

Igor Hosnedl has developed a highly singular style of painting, characterized by carefully aligned color tones, flowing geometries and an atmosphere suggestive of alternative states of consciousness.

Working almost exclusively in large format and with custom-made oil pigment, Hosnedl’s pictures combine a strange fairytale-like atmosphere, at once playful and foreboding. But there is also no simple resolution in his pictures, stories are dizzyingly interwoven in ornament-like curls.✨

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