Support Living Artists

What Supporting Living Artists Means

Kuriosis was built on archive work — Haeckel, Hokusai, Mucha — but a significant and growing part of what we do now is collaborate directly with contemporary artists. The criteria are the same regardless of era: does the work hold up on a wall? Does the composition reward attention? Does it belong alongside the historical pieces we already carry?

Every artist in this collection has a direct relationship with Kuriosis. They receive a royalty on each sale. The editions are controlled — we don't mass-produce, and we don't list work without a genuine collaboration behind it. This is not a marketplace or a print-on-demand aggregator. When you buy from this collection, you're supporting an artist's practice directly.

The Artists

The range covers a wide spectrum of contemporary styles. Jazzberry Blue makes bold abstract compositions with high colour saturation, designed for large formats and particularly strong on canvas. Dan Hobday works in geometric and typographic prints with a graphic design background — clean, versatile, strong in groups of three or more. Florent Bodart is a French illustrator whose loose, characterful line work softens rather than dominates a room. Henry Hu creates abstract landscapes in muted tones with painterly texture — work that reads as an original without claiming to be one.

These are just four of the dozens of contemporary artists in the collection. New work is added regularly as collaborations develop. Browse our abstract prints for the geometric and minimalist end of the spectrum, or modern prints for the full range of contemporary graphic work alongside flower market and design-led prints.

Choosing Format and Framing for Contemporary Work

Contemporary prints are the most format-flexible category we carry. Bold graphic work and typography reads best on fine art paper, where clean lines and flat colour fields stay sharp and precise. Paper prints are available in A3, 50×70cm, 70×100cm, and A0, with oak, black, or walnut brown frames.

Painterly and textural work — layered colour, visible brushstrokes, atmospheric depth — comes alive on canvas. The surface adds a dimension that reinforces the impression of an original artwork rather than a reproduction. Canvas prints come in 30×40cm, 50×70cm, and 70×100cm, with an optional floating frame for a gallery finish.

For framing: black frames are the safest choice for contemporary art — they provide clean contrast without introducing a colour that competes with the work. Natural oak works well for warmer, earthier compositions. Contemporary prints also mix well with historical work — a Dan Hobday abstract alongside a Hasui Kawase landscape, or a Jazzberry Blue composition next to a Bauhaus exhibition poster, shows how modern and classic share the same wall comfortably.

All prints are produced in our Berlin studio using archival pigment inks rated for 100+ years.