Copenhagen Introduces Gender Quotas
The Council for Visual Arts has introduced gender quotas for all art purchases made by the City of Copenhagen. Council member and director of Kunsthal Charlottenborg Michael Thouber hopes that others will follow.
The Council for Visual Arts has introduced gender quotas for all art purchases made by the City of Copenhagen. Council member and director of Kunsthal Charlottenborg Michael Thouber hopes that others will follow.
Astrup Fearnley Museum has not renewed its sponsorship agreement with Lundin Norway. The museum will review its entire sponsorship profile when Solveig Øvstebø takes over as director in May.
This spring, nine Scandinavian writers, critics, and curators will share their reflections on Nordic contemporary art from the decade we just left behind.
Mariann Enge takes over as acting editor of Kunstkritikk.
Astrup Fearnley Museum’s presentation of contemporary African art gives the impression that the ripple effects of colonialism are an exclusively African issue.
Ann Veronica Janssens offers us a lens through which to see the world anew. Banal, perhaps, but also extremely effective.
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.
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.
With global politics poised at several precipices at once, the international art scene seems preoccupied with globalism and transgeographic exchange this spring.
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.
Have women artists ever been as prominent as in Sweden during the spring of 2020?
‘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.
All pop songs are both home and away, love and pain, yours and no one’s. Does music deceive us? Are we too naive in our approach? Or is the most beautiful thing about pop music actually the treason itself?
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.
History does not repeat itself, it constructs analogies.
Who gets heard on the art scene, in gender discussions, and in society? It seems that the white man’s system still governs the debate on gender and representation.
The reason the work was effective was that I thought that I did not read the text that I had to read in order to understand the work.
Even in its struggle against kitsch, pop music is a flypaper for our memories. Can art be the same?
Can Jarl Ingvarsson deliver us from late capitalism’s pandemic fatigue?
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.
‘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.
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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