The Oslo Biennial Ends Ahead of Schedule
The Oslo City Department of Culture has decided to end the first instalment of the city’s biennial two years earlier than planned, due in part to financial overspending.
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Suffering Into Action
Our Red Sky at Gothenburg Konsthall embodies how women’s experiences of sexual and racist violence can become tools for political change.
Mnemosyne Lost
HKW in Berlin revives Aby Warburg’s original picture atlas. For contemporary audiences it is a display both evocative and impenetrable.
Just Breathe
Joar Nango’s festival exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall is an inspiring invitation to expand our minds and knowledge and to carry out fundamental change.
One Too Many Helping Hands
The Berlin Biennial is taking place against all odds. But adamant to meet the current crisis, the exhibition’s progressive politics makes for a conventional and repetitive viewing experience.
Invisible Criticism
Criticism has moved from the daily newspapers to niche media. This should be reflected in Denmark’s new media policy agreement, says Kamilla Löfström of United Critics Denmark.
Raw Emotion
The Work of Mourning at Bonniers Konsthall not only speaks to the current state of affairs, it also emits the sincerity of experiences connected to real change.
Sweden Makes Historic Investment in Culture
‘I think governments around the world should see this as a template for how to deal with the corona pandemic’, says Gitte Ørskou, director of Moderna Museet.
Sturm und Drang
Adrian Bugge’s digital protest exhibition against the demolition of the Y-blokka in Oslo transforms destruction into creative energy, and injustice into rebellion.
When I Say Jump
Christian Falsnaes delves into the grey area between entertainment and submission, and delivers on both. It’s effective as well as aggravating.
Art Talks Back
Faith Ringgold’s retrospective at Bildmuseet in Umeå is a moving attempt at restoring the humanity of which Black people have so often been robbed.
‘Hell is the cosmos’
Peter Weibel and Bettina Korintenberg, the curators behind the exhibition Critical Zones at ZKM in Karlsruhe, want us to turn our eyes to the earth.
