Best of 2024
Which were the most memorable shows in the Nordics this year? Staff writers and invited guests pick three of their favourites.
Kunstkritikk’s editor-in-chief Mariann Enge reflects on the art that captured the state of the world in 2024.
Winds of change blew across Freetown Christiania this year, bringing Kunstkritikk’s editor in Copenhagen hope that Danish art will one day be renewed there.
Sex and death in Helsinki, meditative landscape painting in Oslo, and a glimpse of art’s future in Copenhagen. Artist Ernst Billgren gives us his top-three list.
A small gnome hiding inside a fountain pump sent Kunstkritikk’s Norwegian editor, Stian Gabrielsen, into a nostalgic fit.
See which painters were at the top of their game in 2024, according to Copenhagen-based artist David Risley.
Kunstkritkk’s Nora Arrhenius Hagdahl on this year’s wildest shows in Stockholm.
Constance Tenvik’s interpretation of Greek antiquity at the Munch Museum in Oslo substitutes sexual and violent excesses for burlesque games.
Katalin Ladik’s first major presentation in the Nordics underscores the transformative power of the voice.
As curator of GIBCA 13, Christina Lehnert promises to confront the present head-on.
Fresh 90s nonchalance at Paris Internationale and Martine Syms at Lafayette Anticipations.
The climate has no time to wait, and nature cannot hurry. Camilla Berner is raising a forest on the island of Ærø.
Allegations of sexual misconduct in a Vaginal Davis work at Moderna Museet raise questions about art’s toxic culture of privilege.
Maurizio Cattelan’s show at Moderna Museet rejects both religion and politics as models for art. Instead, it proposes, artists can take back control by slacking off.
Centre Pompidou’s centennial exhibition is a celebration of an art which surrenders itself to Eros.
The Apocalypse revisited, pioneering sound art, and an unsettling proposal marks the Swedish art season.
A new reality show about Odd Nerdrum’s family teases out the irony of the classical painter’s contempt for the present.
Palestine, Indigenous art, the Venice Biennale, and mood as a benchmark for quality. These are the articles that engaged our readers the most in 2024.
Kunstkritikk’s editor-in-chief Mariann Enge reflects on the art that captured the state of the world in 2024.
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