‘The true institution is the art’
Italian duo Francesco Urbano Ragazzi will curate Lofoten International Art Festival 2022.
Italian duo Francesco Urbano Ragazzi will curate Lofoten International Art Festival 2022.
Eddie Figge’s paintings from the 1989 São Paulo Biennale should be shown in schools as proof that our planet has had visitors from a distant civilisation.
‘If I were forced to name an upside of the pandemic, it has been that it gave us time to reflect on and re-evaluate what we do’, says Sara Berner Bengtsson, new Managing Director of the Nordic art fair.
Jacob Fabricius and Lars Bang Larsen will become joint directors of Art Hub Copenhagen.
After a couple of turbulent years, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts has a new rector: Lars Bent Petersen.
After a year of fierce conflicts, the newly elected rector of the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Markus Degerman, wants to look ahead.
Eddie Figge’s paintings from the 1989 São Paulo Biennale should be shown in schools as proof that our planet has had visitors from a distant civilisation.
Some words around what it meant when Cecilia Bjartmar Hylta abstracted the act of masturbation into a large vibrating dildo wall. Or, why we feel sick making art.
In Good Speaker, Elise Macmillan reconstructs from memory a radio commercial she heard during her early youth.
Hertha Hansons’s painting reminds me of something. Perhaps it’s just a feeling, the meaning of which shifts, surfaces, and disappears.
On Magnus Enckell’s canvases, flesh and bone pile up in formations that spell out words I can read, but not yet write.
At Sorø Art Museum, Peter Bonde engages with the past and role models in an exhibition that refuses to be retrospective.
Rodrigo Ghattas-Pérez is co-founder of Scandinavia’s only support network for foreign artists.
‘We want the works to sink to the seabed only as a thought in the viewer’s mind’, say the curators of Goodbye, World, a biodegradable exhibition installed on a remote ice floe in northern Sweden.
High resolution images don’t make us more perceptive. Quite the contrary.
‘Repatriation is about so much more than just the objects’, say Sámi artists Petra Laiti and Outi Pieski, curators of an exhibition about the historic event at the Finnish National Museum this autumn.
Minister of Culture Joy Mogensen wants to strengthen management in art education, set up boards of directors, and counteract overly academised teaching. At best, this breaks with decades of technocracy.
The exhibition Artists’ Film International: Language at Tromsø Kunstforening makes no attempt to mimic the cinema’s isolating darkness.
Fashion week in a time of COVID-19 offers new digital-first strategies that increasingly prevail in the art world. What’s at stake when everything turns into viral content?
‘I hope it will be very powerful, like a muted, solemn pride parade’, says artist Sam Hultin, who is involved in the preparatory study for the monument.
Many questions have emerged after an artistic action against a plaster cast of Frederik V at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts made a big splash on the Danish art scene.
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