Kunstkritikk

24 December

Kunstkritikk’s Editor-in-Chief Mariann Enge revisits a year marked by emotional storms, memory work, and the scent of wood lingering on her hands.

23 December

Kunstkritikk’s Swedish editor on a year marked by fragile ways of seeing.

22 December

Ramshackle, utterly quiet, and cunning as a fox. Kunstkritikk’s editor in Copenhagen reveals the cosmologies she most adored in 2025.

21 December

Medieval psychedelia on jute canvas punched a hole through wall and time for Kunstkritikk’s Norwegian editor, Stian Gabrielsen.

20 December

This year, Joanna Nordin, Artistic Director of Bonniers Konsthall, cherished the positive effects of recession.

19 December

In 2025, artist Oliver Bak took a close look at the left hand of one of art history’s most famous painters.

Eat Your Phone, Amen!

How do we hold onto what is materially sacred in a time that worships the cloud?

Consolation Prize

Will poverty save us? A dispatch from Helsinki.

Career Confinement

With the birth of the dealer-critic-system in 1870s France, criticism shifted its focus from the artwork to the artist. It’s been all downhill from there.

Time to Mobilise

The enemies of culture and the arts haven’t just rallied, they’re gaining ground.

Un-Weaving Memories

Matilda Kenttä traces the heritage of the Tornedalians, a Swedish minority whose quiet endurance speaks of belonging across generations.

A Happy, Unspecified Fantasy

Arthur Köpcke arrived in Copenhagen in 1953. Not long after, the city became a centre of the European avant-garde. When might that happen again?

Inside (For Klara Lidén)

At Kunsthalle Zürich, body, space, and language converged in quiet gestures charged with visceral energy.

Forest, Concrete, and Alienation

Lars Fredrikson’s paintings are never flat.

Grandmother’s Skin

Hilde Skancke Pedersen’s ránut can be felt in my fingers and on my tongue, even when I see them from a distance.

Some Waves Wave Forever

The waves in Kinga Bartis’s painting Egg timer do not move in vain.

Nordic–Baltic Magazine Network Meets in Oslo

‘We all face similar challenges when it comes to building sustainable organisations,” said Vilnius-based editor Vitalija Jasaitė.

ʻWe are building a narrative from fragmentsʼ

Architect, historian, and curator Nadi Abusaada visits Oslo to give a lecture on Palestinian art before the Nakba.

Monument to a Coloniser

‘For Indigenous people it can be a little scary to think about erasure and removal when talking about monuments’, says collective New Red Order.

The Art World Is Depressed

There is widespread frustration with what contemporary art has become, says the British critic Dean Kissick. Now his much debated 2024 essay is being published in an extended Danish version.

Testament to a People

While Gaza is being razed to the ground, an exhibition strives to present Palestinian art to a global audience. Gaza Biennale’s Danish Pavilion opens this week.

Secrets and Lies

A new book uncovers the Nazi past of Swedens foremost postwar photographer.

Defending Greenland

What is worth going to war for? ask Inuk Silis Høegh and Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen in a 2004 work that is now more topical than ever.

Destroy All Computers

The West succumbs to tech-oligarchy and neo-feudalism in artist Jakob Boeskov’s forthcoming novel.

Forest, Concrete, and Alienation

Lars Fredrikson’s paintings are never flat.

Grandmother’s Skin

Hilde Skancke Pedersen’s ránut can be felt in my fingers and on my tongue, even when I see them from a distance.

Nascent Authoritarianism

Christina Kiaer to give lecture on Soviet art history in the age of Putin and academic censorship in the US.

Monika Sosnowska’s Ruin Made of Thin Air

In a lush corner of Stockholm, the Polish artist conjures the ghost of a museum that never was.

Institutionalised

Like a safety pin in a school uniform, Sofie Winther’s kindergarten is an emblem of punk resistance.

Marie-Louise Ekman’s Late Style

Irreverent, intimate, and unmistakably herself.

No Case for Renewal

While a dramatic shift towards authoritarianism is taking place in the United States, art clings to aesthetic strategies from the 1980s.

Time to Mobilise

The enemies of culture and the arts haven’t just rallied, they’re gaining ground.

Crocodiles in the City

Copenhagen is currently home to several semi-aquatic reptiles. They speak volumes about attitudes and mummification. And of what an exhibition may be.