Summer Readings

With a selection of this season’s articles, we wish everyone a nice summer. Kunstkritikk will resume publication on 13 August.
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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.
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Apocalyptic Butterfly

In Malmö, Kiki Smith delivers a profound case for art as a form of ecological and existential inquiry.
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The Forest Is Not What It Seems

The 13th edition of the Momentum Biennial in Moss is a rarity: a large-scale presentation of sound art.
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Fox on the Run

Subversion and humour are back in the 13th Berlin Biennale, but the show is best where it’s most serious.
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Masters of Mist

Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris explores blurriness as a space of resistance, mourning, and imagination.
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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.
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Festival of Accidents

‘Progress and catastrophe are two sides of the same coin’, according to Charles Teyssou and Pierre-Alexandre Mateos, curators of Stavanger Secession.
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Helsinki Biennial and the Cycle of Nature

On a protected island, climate friendly works are presented without unnecessary doomsday rhetoric.
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Ludic Mice

Tori Wrånes takes the depressing spirit of our times seriously, without letting it dampen the mood.
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The Age of Monsters

For all its racket, Moderna Museet’s Mike Kelley-show fails to speak to the current moment.
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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.
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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.
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Galactic Noise

Waste bears witness to the invisible forces that shape our lives at MoMA PS1 in New York.
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Time to Mobilise

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

In Oslo, Steinar Haga Kristensen strikes a balance between order and chaos, construction and collapse.
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Portrait of a Generation

At the Copenhagen art festival Under, the young scene is clearly in control. But is it also a bit too self-aware?
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A Labour of Love

Fatima Hellberg’s farewell to Bonner Kunstverein is an intimate cabinet show celebrating her late colleague Alan Logino.
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Darker than Darkness

Robert Longo’s charcoal drawings are utterly absorbing – right up until they become shallow.
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Iria Leino’s Fairytale Life

The Finnish model’s posthumous career as an artist shows us the value of a really good story. Yet, her exhibition at Galerie Forsblom in Helsinki is hard to grasp.
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Fingerprints in Snow

A K Dolven moves between everything and nothing, ceremony and triviality in her retrospective at the National Museum of Norway.
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Springtime in Paris

David Hockney’s retrospective at Fondation Louis Vuitton is full of new beginnings.
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Alpha Vulnerability

Ed Atkins chokes up at Tate Britain.
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Lodged in the Body

Inuit must learn from tradition and living memory in order to look ahead, was the message at a recent seminar on Greenlandic performance traditions.
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She’s Still Here

Hannah Ryggen remains the most compelling part of the Hannah Ryggen Triennial.
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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.
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Fake Like Snow

Carola Grahn brings a pitch-perfect wit to Sámi feminism at Liljevalchs in Stockholm.
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‘The artwork isn’t necessarily diplomatic’

Matias Faldbakken will create memorial to the 2011 terror attack in Oslo.
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Fool’s Play

The Swedish government’s plan to create an institutional behemoth, Moderna, is ill-advised and reckless.
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Nextgen Lethality

In Nikita Teryoshin’s exhibition in Oslo, a coffee mug encounters high-tech missiles on a trade fair table.
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A Splash Becomes a Car that Crashes and Becomes a Splash

Cecilie Norgaard at O-Overgaden is painting about painting in the best possible sense.
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Art von Trier

Nikolaj Kunsthal tries to turn Lars von Trier’s films into visual art, but ends up advertising for the genius.
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Long Exposures

Ghost photography has resurfaced in museum image banks.
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We Are Doomed

Irony gives way to sincerity in Anne Imhof’s spectacular performance at Park Avenue Armory in New York.
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I Want a Courageous Museum

A recent international panel on art institutions called for more solidarity in the art field.

Fata Morgana

Eliyah Mesayer’s fictional state has pitched its black tents in Aarhus. For those already familiar with Illiyeen, the project appears to be stagnating. Perhaps that is the point.

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The Optimist

Everything you need to dream as Valeria Montti Colque’s recreates the Chilean Pavilion in Stockholm.
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Drain the Sea

A show in Malmö reminds us that megalomaniacal ideas are best regarded as mind games.
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The Joy in Painting

Francis Picabia was a maximalist, but it is his most minimal compositions that score the most points at a show of his late works in Paris.
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Secrets and Lies

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

The West succumbs to tech-oligarchy and neo-feudalism in artist Jakob Boeskov’s forthcoming novel.
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Give Me a Museum ASAP

A new reality show about Odd Nerdrum’s family teases out the irony of the classical painter’s contempt for the present.

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