The Reinvention of the World
Tiril Hasselknippe’s brew of blissful neo-materialism and banal video game aesthetics is just the right amount of a good thing, i.e. too much.
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Harald the Hero
The father of modern curating, Harald Szeeman, is memorialised at Castello di Rivoli in Turin with a lavish presentation of obsessive archiving and a hint of kitsch.
Nordic News Weekly – March 15th
Debates on cultural politics in Denmark and Sweden, a five-year programme of art in public space in Oslo, and three Nordic artists represented in the Venice Biennial main exhibition.
The Sublime Schizo-Aesthetics of the Chinese Restaurant
Lap-See Lam demonstrates the advantages that transhumanism, technocapitalism, and post-internet art have in common.
Hi, Great-Grandma!
Anton Vidokle’s cosmo-philosophical films push pre-revolutionary man towards immortality. The result is pan-historic sci-fi of the highest calibre.
Nordic News Weekly – March 8th
Visual art events on International Women’s Day, nominees for the Norwegian Art Critics’ Prize announced, and a new masters program in curating and art criticism.
A Troll’s Tall Tale
Can Tori Wrånes’s melancholic fairy-feminism save us from patriarchy?
From Flesh to Pixel
Louisiana’s grand Pipilotti Rist show presents 30 years of intimate exchanges between body and screen, from low-fi punk to immersive installations.
Germans Screw Better
Yngve Holen and Agatha Wara take an all-electric SUV for a test ride and talk about Holen’s exhibition that opens at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo.
Nordic News Weekly – March 1st
Two Nordic biennials reach their tenth editions, Louisiana has troubles with a Swiss sponsor, and there is “a real crisis” with regard to acquisitions in Norwegian museums.
Too Close for Comfort
Using fainting and surgery as subject matter, Marianna Simnett explores the immediacy of the medicalised body at Copenhagen Contemporary.
Homeric Escape
The Berlin film festival’s experimental extension seeks to renegotiate the relationship between moving images and life.
