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Some waves wave forever
The waves in Kinga Bartis’s painting Egg timer do not move in vain.
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Anti-Celebration
With a Danish ghost ship and humorous decolonial propaganda, the 11th Gothenburg Biennial wants to serve as a counter-narrative to the city’s official 400-year anniversary.
Body Feels
Damla Kilickiran’s exhibition at The Young Artists’ Society in Oslo shows how the pandemic has made us so focused our own bodies that our surroundings dissolve.
Momentum Postponed Until Further Notice
The collaboration between curator Théo-Mario Coppola and the biennial management has been broken off.
Simulacrum Galore
Art collective SIGNA has taken over the new art venue in Copenhagen’s Ørestad district with a spectacular nightmare exposing the beautiful disasters of capitalist reality.
The Face Is Something You Slide Into
The Munch Museum’s presentation of Edvard Munch’s paintings of Sultan Abdul Karem would have benefited from less didacticism.
After Farce
At Kunsthall Stavanger, Jamian Juliano-Villani accelerates the visual logic of commercialism to expose contemporary culture for what it is: an absurd nightmare.
Fuck Me in the Eye
Anne Imhof disappoints in morphing a live performance piece into her first major film work, delivering an infuriatingly long sequence of overhyped images in slow motion.
Feeling, Hearing, Seeing
The seventh Borås biennial captures the conflicts of our time through texture, sensuality, spirituality, and ‘deep listening’.
The Whole World Is Invited
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.
A World Beyond
Olof Marsja’s exhibition at Nevven in Gothenburg is a bold mix of contemporary spirituality, Sámi handicraft, and fake designer clothes.
Hurry It’s Time!
Some of the webs found in Charlotte Johannesson’s artistic practice and why spinning and weaving the past into the future is so important.
