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Ekaterina Iakiamseva moves through photography with the instinct of someone who distrusts surfaces. The image, for her, is never a simple record, never an obedient witness. It becomes a site of tension, a controlled disturbance where the visible is pushed to the edge of collapse. Light functions as a governing […]
Tramhaus are Rotterdam’s live-wire post-punk revelation, a band celebrated for explosive shows and songs that hit like a spark to dry air. With a sound that effortlessly stretches from shoegaze textures to raw punk-rock urgency, the five-piece blend their diverse musical backgrounds into something both unpredictable and fiercely cohesive. On […]
Deceits feels like a band you experience before you fully understand. There’s a kind of raw clarity in what they do: direct, intense, and very present. Their sound carries both movement and emotion, pulling from different places without losing its core. In this conversation, Kevin “Pups” Moreno (vocals / instruments) […]
Paris has always known how to domesticate ghosts. Lenny Kravitz’s residence in the 16th arrondissement, a grand 1920s hôtel particulier known as Villa Roxie, carries a name shaped by private history. It honors Roxie Roker, his mother, and the Paris she once imagined for herself. The tribute is embedded into […]
Qingshan Liu is a China-based photographer whose work moves between intimacy and tension, instinct and observation. His images focus on contemporary youth, not as a defined generation, but as individuals navigating emotional extremes, desire, anxiety, closeness, and distance. His latest body of work, brought together in “The Heat of the […]
There’s something different about this issue. Not just in the way it looks, although it does look sharper, more layered, and intentional, but in how it moves. Issue #8 feels like a space where different practices collide: music, visual art, digital experimentation, and everything in between. CVLTARTES Issue #8 brings […]
Sergey Goncharov, who signs his work under the name catarsic, approaches photography as if it were a language still in the process of being invented. Based in Almaty, Kazakhstan, he is drawn to the nude as a site where image and poetry begin to overlap, where the body carries the […]
Dmitry Krapivin, a Russian photographer with more than twelve years behind the lens, has built his visual language around the austere seduction of black-and-white portraiture. In the absence of color, something more volatile surfaces: the texture of a gaze, the quiet defiance of a posture, the fragile electricity between photographer […]
“Mizantrop” opens like a shadow stretching across memory, a whisper from a past that refuses to fade. She Past Away, the duo of Volkan Caner and Doruk Öztürkcan, return with an album that unfolds more like a nocturnal journey than a conventional record. Every track pulses with deliberate precision, a […]
Diana Karimova is a young visual artist from Rostov-on-Don, Russia, who explores the photographic universe with a refined sensibility and an elegant touch. Her images unfold through delicate tonalities and subtle gestures, seeking to articulate femininity and the beauty of the female body with an almost devotional precision. Most of […]