Advent Calendar 2025
In the spirit of the season, we celebrate the shows that lit up the Nordic scene this year.
Curator Steffen Håndlykken has begun to value the slow work that takes place deep within the museums.
Curator Jari Malta’s fondest memories were of daring, independent art spaces.
Louise Steiwer looks back on a year when grief was finally allowed to fill the halls of art.
A triennial resembling The Blob and the fear of meeting another person’s gaze ever again: 2025 has left its mark on Tommy Olsson.
Christine Antaya decorates her tree with bright colours and a newfound love of nonsense.
Artist Tora Schultz looks back on a year in which Stockholm’s artist-led scene flourished.
Matilda Kenttä traces the heritage of the Tornedalians, a Swedish minority whose quiet endurance speaks of belonging across generations.
Arthur Köpcke arrived in Copenhagen in 1953. Not long after, the city became a centre of the European avant-garde. When might that happen again?
At Kunsthalle Zürich, body, space, and language converged in quiet gestures charged with visceral energy.
Lars Fredrikson’s paintings are never flat.
Hilde Skancke Pedersen’s ránut can be felt in my fingers and on my tongue, even when I see them from a distance.
The waves in Kinga Bartis’s painting Egg timer do not move in vain.
‘We all face similar challenges when it comes to building sustainable organisations,” said Vilnius-based editor Vitalija Jasaitė.
Architect, historian, and curator Nadi Abusaada visits Oslo to give a lecture on Palestinian art before the Nakba.
‘For Indigenous people it can be a little scary to think about erasure and removal when talking about monuments’, says collective New Red Order.
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.
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.
A new book uncovers the Nazi past of Swedens foremost postwar photographer.
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.
The West succumbs to tech-oligarchy and neo-feudalism in artist Jakob Boeskov’s forthcoming novel.
Lars Fredrikson’s paintings are never flat.
Hilde Skancke Pedersen’s ránut can be felt in my fingers and on my tongue, even when I see them from a distance.
Christina Kiaer to give lecture on Soviet art history in the age of Putin and academic censorship in the US.
In a lush corner of Stockholm, the Polish artist conjures the ghost of a museum that never was.
Like a safety pin in a school uniform, Sofie Winther’s kindergarten is an emblem of punk resistance.
Irreverent, intimate, and unmistakably herself.
While a dramatic shift towards authoritarianism is taking place in the United States, art clings to aesthetic strategies from the 1980s.
The enemies of culture and the arts haven’t just rallied, they’re gaining ground.
Copenhagen is currently home to several semi-aquatic reptiles. They speak volumes about attitudes and mummification. And of what an exhibition may be.
The Swedish government’s plan to create an institutional behemoth, Moderna, is ill-advised and reckless.
A recent international panel on art institutions called for more solidarity in the art field.
A new reality show about Odd Nerdrum’s family teases out the irony of the classical painter’s contempt for the present.
Curator Steffen Håndlykken has begun to value the slow work that takes place deep within the museums.
Curator Jari Malta’s fondest memories were of daring, independent art spaces.
Louise Steiwer looks back on a year when grief was finally allowed to fill the halls of art.
A triennial resembling The Blob and the fear of meeting another person’s gaze ever again: 2025 has left its mark on Tommy Olsson.
