A Place of Conflict
The Oslo Biennial was going to invigorate the local art scene and pioneer new curatorial methods. Now, it’s being brought to an end two years ahead of schedule. What went wrong?
The Oslo Biennial was going to invigorate the local art scene and pioneer new curatorial methods. Now, it’s being brought to an end two years ahead of schedule. What went wrong?
Steffen Håndlykken, chair of the board of Young Artists’ Society, believes that the three hundred temporary grants to be awarded in 2021 should become a permanent scheme.
After a ten-year hiatus, Kristina Eriksson is back with a new set of paintings about the main feature of human inadequacy – that we are all going to die.
At Kristiansand Kunsthall, Apichaya Wanthiang captures the anxieties and fears of a pandemic-stricken world.
The exhibition featuring Goodiepal’s collection is also a retrospective of ‘Goodiepal’ the phenomenon, which is also a school, a band, and a refugee organisation.
After a ten-year hiatus, Kristina Eriksson is back with a new set of paintings about the main feature of human inadequacy – that we are all going to die.
Joar Nango’s festival exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall is an inspiring invitation to expand our minds and knowledge and to carry out fundamental change.
After a trying spring, parts of Norwegian art life are rising again as if nothing had happened. But not everyone has finished recovering.
The Oslo City Department of Culture has decided to end the first instalment of the city’s biennial two years earlier than planned, due in part to financial overspending.
Criticism has moved from the daily newspapers to niche media. This should be reflected in Denmark’s new media policy agreement, says Kamilla Löfström of United Critics Denmark.
Peter Weibel and Bettina Korintenberg, the curators behind the exhibition Critical Zones at ZKM in Karlsruhe, want us to turn our eyes to the earth.
Bruno Latour’s current exhibition at ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe urges us to discover where we live before it’s too late.
After a trying spring, parts of Norwegian art life are rising again as if nothing had happened. But not everyone has finished recovering.
Traditions meet trends when the young generation takes on the possibilities of painting and textile work during the coming art season in Finland.
After a tumultuous start of the year, the autumn season is back on track in Sweden. Yet, resentment is bubbling under the surface.
The autumn season on the Danish art scene is already well underway and looking very promising – with women, witch hunts, and an eccentric baron on the menu.
In an open letter to Swedish art institutions, a group of anonymous artists and culture workers demand that issues of racism, discrimination and whiteness be seriously addressed.
Does the Nordic art community have the courage to confront the effects of racist logics on local arts policies, practices and relationships?
This autumn, Sarah Lookofsky takes up her new position as dean at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
‘The institution should be shaped around artistic practice, not the other way around’, says Rhea Dall, new head of Overgaden in Copenhagen.
What Bogdan Szyber, in his doctoral dissertation, refers to as ‘Edu-art’ impedes artistic freedom because it is practiced according to the demands of academic research.
‘A farcical act of revenge’, according to Bogdan Szyber, who was unanimously rejected by a degree committee. For the first time in Sweden, a thesis in artistic research did not pass the public defence.
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