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Kept Here by Our Bodies

The Physical World Was Still There at Konsthall C is a gripping account of the human desire to escape reality. It has tenderness, grief, pain and lyricism.
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North of the World

The web of global entanglements and flows described by A beast, a god, and a line at Kunsthall Trondheim omits the exhibition’s immediate context.
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The World in Fragments

With global politics poised at several precipices at once, the international art scene seems preoccupied with globalism and transgeographic exchange this spring.
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Spring Alliances

While Danish museums celebrate record-high visitor numbers, others want to shut down the Ministry of Culture. In a way, the two are connected. Also, institutional collaborations have become the order of the day.
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New Gender Order

Have women artists ever been as prominent as in Sweden during the spring of 2020?
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A Season of Acceleration

‘Out with the old’ might be Norwegian art’s motto this spring, which will see numerous changes to buildings as well as directors – and plenty of experiments with new technology.
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Decolonising Art Criticism

So far, the discussion on decolonisation in the art world has been centred on institutions. What if we instead turned our attention to the conditions for critical debate?
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Elegance’s Internationalisms

Le monde nouveau de Charlotte Perriand is an imposing presentation of an artist who registers the contradictions of the 20th century. But did Perriand’s world consist only of men?

Spring Season 2020

Kunstkritikk guides to this season's most important exhibitions.

Spring Alliances

While Danish museums celebrate record-high visitor numbers, others want to shut down the Ministry of Culture. In a way, the two are connected. Also, institutional collaborations have become the order of the day.

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The Actually Actual

Haus der Kunst is a bit of a time suspend in Oslo, an enclave where the beer is cheap and unending, and the small things like smoking inside actually mean something.
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No X-Room for X Factor

The closure of National Gallery of Denmark’s X-room is symptomatic: in the dark ages following policies of budget cuts spaces for artistic experiment erode.
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Reinstating the Genius

Iris Smeds’s exhibition at Bonnier’s Konsthall is an exorcism of neoliberal exceptionalism.
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Art for Much More Than Art’s Sake

Hans Haacke’s timely retrospective echoes urgent ethical issues around the role of museum boards in shaping policies towards labor and finance.
Pernille Albrethsen

Spring Alliances

While Danish museums celebrate record-high visitor numbers, others want to shut down the Ministry of Culture. In a way, the two are connected. Also, institutional collaborations have become the order of the day.

Agatha Wara

The Actually Actual

Haus der Kunst is a bit of a time suspend in Oslo, an enclave where the beer is cheap and unending, and the small things like smoking inside actually mean something.

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Taking a Step Back to Move Forward

The new MoMA relinquishes its position as the model museum in order embrace diverse, queer, and complex subjectivities, and give modernism a new beginning.
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Care and Obligation

Fatima Hellberg, the recently appointed director of the Bonner Kunstverein, on creating a programme with energy, presence and visual intelligence.

Friday’s Column

Every week, our columnists present their views on current topics in contemporary art.

The Actually Actual

Haus der Kunst is a bit of a time suspend in Oslo, an enclave where the beer is cheap and unending, and the small things like smoking inside actually mean something.

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