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Our ten most popular articles from 2021.
Our ten most popular articles from 2021.
Why do debates on art get mired in arguments about identity politics? This year’s Holberg Debate offers some clues.
Dina El Kaisy Friemuth’s insistently minimalistic exhibition shows us what remains when we repatriate stolen artefacts.
NFTs demonstrate art’s license to make commodities out of almost anything.
‘I never seriously thought the textiles would ever be returned to Peru’, says Oscar Lara, who has worked for years on a project involving the Paracas textiles at the Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg.
The Munch Museum was recently the scene of a climate-activist performance stunt.
The Munch Museum was recently the scene of a climate-activist performance stunt.
The Munch Museum’s opening exhibition featuring Tracey Emin and Edvard Munch is a melodrama about a subject who has nothing more to give, but keeps on giving.
When the Munch Museum, spearheaded by Director Stein Olav Henrichsen, uses Munch as a kind of zombie influencer to sell cars, it has crossed a line.
Today, Friday 22 October, marks the grand opening of the new Munch Museum in Oslo.
The Munch Museum’s presentation of Edvard Munch’s paintings of Sultan Abdul Karem would have benefited from less didacticism.
The new Munch Museum will open in the heart of Oslo this autumn with Tracey Emin, Sandra Mujinga, and black metal band Satyricon all joining the party. Still, someone has to be a party pooper.
Magnus Andersen expands painting beyond the canvas in a total
installation that grins at contemporary fantasies of idyllic rural life.
Lee “Scratch” Perry’s entire persona and output comprise a complex Gesamtkunstwerk, a vast collage with roots dating back to 1958.
Protest and politics as seen through the work of generations of women artists in Poland.
“Racism and racial prejudice is impossible to understand without studying the normative white centre that gives rise to it”, says Jeff Werner, professor of art history at Stockholm University.
Goutam Ghosh’s exhibition at Standard (Oslo) points not only to what painting has been, but also to what it is becoming.
Martha Edelheit’s The Naked Truth: Works from the 60’s & 70’s at Larsen/Warner in Stockholm overflows with an irresistible sense of sensuality and liberation.
Buffalo AKG Art Museum in upstate New York will open in 2022 and plans to boast the largest collection of Nordic art outside the region.
Lene Berg, next year’s official festival artist at Bergen Kunsthall, wants to tell the story of her late father, film director Arnljot Berg.
The idyllic setting of Momentum 11 threatens to drown out the biennial’s well-meaning gestures towards activism.
With the show Hummings, KØS Museum shows its ambitions to move its programme towards public space, but delivers unconvincing results.
Philosopher Yuk Hui asks how art can transform technology.
Sianne Ngai explains why art needs to embrace error in a world that is wrong.
McKenzie Wark thinks we misunderstood the utopian.
Facing yet another Covid spring, Sweden’s exhibition season will be locally produced and unsensational. Nevertheless, there are some gems to look forward to.
The Light & Space movement takes centre stage in Copenhagen Contemporary’s ‘biggest exhibition to date’, but this vast sea of light drowns out the works and their ostensible magic.
Our ten most popular articles from 2021.
Kunstkritikk’s Editor-in-Chief Mariann Enge shares three of the art events that were most important to her this year.
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