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Göteborg Is the World

Unlike a superhero movie, the 10th Göteborg Biennial does not seek to reach an audience consisting of all the people on earth.
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Dangerous Liaisons

At Statens Museum for Kunst, Shahryar Nashat has produced a captivating immersive experience that is both seductive and claustrophobic.
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Travis Jeppesen’s Accelerating Perversion

Dealing with bad art, the book Bad Writing is gloriously perverted in places. But it is also a slightly surly attack on what it calls ‘political correctness’.
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Curating Interconnectedness

‘In order to move on, you must also turn back’, says Lisa Rosendahl, curator of the 10th edition of the Göteborg Biennial, opening this Saturday.
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Autumn’s Carousel

Carsten Höller looms large over the Danish art scene this autumn, alongside dreadfully thin-skinned pottery and a hospital for self-medication.
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All Is Tenderness

Of Martin Gustavsson’s two exhibitions in Stockholm, one renders the love between men, the other gives hope about the generosity and beauty of the world.
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The Murmur of the Mains

This autumn season, the Norwegian art scene will see a record-breaking number of mid-career solo shows, and paintings that engage with nature and architecture.
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Farewell to the Techno-Patriarchy

In Sweden, authors like Ursula Le Guin, Valerie Solanas, and the Danish poet Inger Christensen set a literary tone for an auspicious autumn season.
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Hollywood Structuralism in a Collapsed Age

Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo starts the season with a screening of films by Ed Atkins. Kunstkritikk interviewed him in 2016, when he was exhibiting at Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen.
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A Painter of Bare Life

Frank Bowling’s retrospective at Tate Britain marks the homecoming of a great contemporary painter.
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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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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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Summer Sonata 2019 – 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.
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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.

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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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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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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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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