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Monster That I Am

In the midst of her largest retrospective to date, artist Zdenka Rusova talks about the singular question of her life and work.

Nordic News Weekly – June 28th

Social Democrat Joy Mogensen becomes Denmark’s new minister of culture, curators named for Alt_CPH 2020, and other news from the Nordic art field.
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Political Materialism

This year’s Whitney Biennial focuses on autonomous personal narratives. The political aspects are embedded in the processing of material and form.
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Post-cinematic Affect

Jesper Just extends his film across the many rooms of Kunsthal Charlottenborg to tell stories about the architecture of the body, and sensory exhaustion in our present day.
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Riding Out Trends

Malmö Konsthall’s summer exhibition presents the work of three female artists who have spent decades making work on the margins of the art world.
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In Praise of Action

Bringing together energetic painting and climate activism, Margrethe Kolstad Brekke’s exhibition at Hordaland Kunstsenter asserts the role of individual agency in fashioning a sustainable future.
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Nazi Art in Many Colours

An exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof recasts Emil Nolde as a Nazi. But this makes no occasion to shame his art, but one for both correcting and complicating art history.
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In the Midst of the Painterly

Mari Slaattelid wants to paint – not the way she is, but the way she needs to be for the picture’s sake. This summer, her work can be seen at Bergen Kunsthall.
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Summer Sonata – Norway

Summertime is collection exhibition time, and this year is no exception. The City of Oslo’s art collection presented in a roundabout is one of the more creative takes on the genre.

Nordic News Weekly – June 21st

The National Museum collaborates with the daughters of Norway’s wealthiest man, the Munch Museum collaborates with the regime in Saudi Arabia, and other hot topics from the Nordic art world.
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Summer Sonata – Sweden

Local artists take on climate change in Boden, a Nordic Biennial in Örebro, and a Golden Lion-winning filmmaker in Stockholm. This is the Swedish art summer.
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Dirty Data

‘Artists find the measure of their own time just by doing their work’, says Julia Scher who began making art about surveillance long before the Internet really existed.

Nordic News Weekly – June 14th

Gitte Ørskou becomes the director of Moderna Museet, Danish Social Democrats issue a new cultural policy, and the gallery Signal in Malmö shares art prize with other cultural initiatives.
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Hidden Publics

Ephemeral and relational art set the aesthetic agenda of the Oslo Biennial, which risks disappearing without a trace.
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Greta Knutson-Tzara, Resistance Painter

A new exhibition rehabilitates an overlooked Swedish modernist, for whom contemplation, rest and sensual pleasure were essential capacities of modern painting.
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Spiky Seating

In the Nordic Pavilion in Venice, insects, green growths in glass containers, and clusters of seaweed all thrive. Whether it is inhabitable to us humans is less certain.
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Summer Sonata – Denmark

This summer’s shows include an extraterrestrial ‘breast creature’ with a built-in fountain in Vejle Fjord. And you’ll soon find a huge Congolese tree trunk in a sculpture park near you.

Nordic News Weekly – June 7th

Biennials open in Moss and Örebro, profile updates for Den Frie and Kistefos Museum, and an artists’ housing project in Oslo may become reality.
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Creative Endgame

Silje Linge Haaland’s exhibition at Galleri K in Oslo tracks the increasing artificiality of life in our postdigital, pre-apocalyptic present.
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A Gathering of Friends

Migration at Tensta Konsthall sets up a communication between different experiences of emigration, from the exile of war and resistance to dissolution in a cosmopolitical vortex of light.

Nordic News Weekly – June 3rd

The new museum Kunstsilo in Kristiansand is fully financed, Galerie Nordenhake will receive an award at Art Basel, and a Danish exhibition of political art sparks controversy before the opening.

Nordic News Weekly – May 24th

The first edition of the Oslobiennalen opens, Ai Weiwei sues Danish car company, Saskia Neuman becomes director of Market Art Fair, and other news from the Nordic art field.

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It’s Up to Us Now

Ways of Seeing is theatre with a political agenda, raising awareness by looking at a protected and privileged world from a position on its margins.
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Pop-Up Screw-Up

Malmö Sessions is the first in a planned series of exhibitions in vacant properties in Malmö and Gothenburg that puts local art scenes at risk.
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Criticism and Capitalism: An Unhappy Couple

The market doesn’t want criticism, and criticism, to be of any value, shouldn’t want the market. Texte zur Kunst attempts to untie the knot.

Venice Biennale 2019

The 58th Venice Biennale opened on 11 May and lasts until 24 November. Here are Kunstkritikk’s reviews and other articles relating to this year’s event.
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Spiky Seating

In the Nordic Pavilion in Venice, insects, green growths in glass containers, and clusters of seaweed all thrive. Whether it is inhabitable to us humans is less certain.

Dark Inheritance

In her beautiful sci-fi noir installation at the Danish Pavilion in Venice, Larissa Sansour asks what the memory of national identity means once a tsunami has washed away everything.

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Dark Inheritance

In her beautiful sci-fi noir installation at the Danish Pavilion in Venice, Larissa Sansour asks what the memory of national identity means once a tsunami has washed away everything.
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The Problem of Organisation

The 58th Venice Biennale provides an image of art’s postdigital condition, where politics is consigned to the level of the individual artwork.
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The Blind Spot of Swedish Art World Exceptionalism

A small and comfortable cultural elite, convinced of their own progressive values, retains authorship over Sweden’s consensus-driven identity.
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A Sense of Belonging

What is national identity in the wake of a climate apocalypse? Larissa Sansour on her contribution to the Danish Pavilion in Venice.
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Good TV

What happened to the idea of a European public sphere? Artist Andjeas Ejiksson unearths a forgotten public service channel from the 80s.

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Post-cinematic Affect

Jesper Just extends his film across the many rooms of Kunsthal Charlottenborg to tell stories about the architecture of the body, and sensory exhaustion in our present day.

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Recuperating the Past

The Sonja Ferlov Mancoba exhibition in Copenhagen sparked a correspondence between two artists and a curator on how to rewrite art history.
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Contrived Communities

The introductory days of Bergen Assembly served as a reminder that art’s engagement with social issues does not necessarily translate into audience engagement.
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Passing Through Painting

Nina Roos’s exhibition at Lund’s Konsthall appears to emerge from within the paintings themselves.

Nordic News Weekly – May 10th

Nordic galleries initiate a new art fair in Basel, Pussy Riot members are granted asylum in Sweden, Bergen Assembly takes a stand against far-right ideology, and other news from the Nordic art field.

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Not Being, But Becoming

Fondation Cartier shows how artists today try to invent a personal visual language where theory and politics are latent and unfathomable.
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Affecting the Body

‘If you don’t have or don’t control material, you have to become material yourself’, says Arthur Jafa, currently showing at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo.
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Endless Endless

A dream in crisis? Europa Endlos is a curatorial essay on Europe, set against a backdrop of irony, globalisation, and Brexit.
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Pre-Cinema, Post-Internet

Frida Orupabo’s integration of social media and white cube takes us back to the technological origins of cinema.
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The Rendering of Modern Life

Every architect in Europe is hustling for a piece of the future Oslo. Their visions are wildly, overtly, perhaps clinically at odds with reality.

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