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Modernism 2.0

The exhibition Slow at Helsinki Kunsthalle is about form, material and craft. What does this have to do with slowness?

That which remains

The romantic search after the sublime in death is still present in art and the exhibition Summer Moved On at Kurant demonstrates that the theme is far from exhausted

Strategic mumbling

NoPlace again replaced “young and alternative” with a more established artist, this time Vibeke Tandberg, who showed new works and launched a new book in the exhibition Mumbles.

Assemblage Degree Zero

The works in Nina Beier’s exhibition at Charlottenborg are based on unexpected juxtapositions of objects that don’t mean anything.

Duchamp’s Poetic Geometry

Ulf Linde’s half a century of work on Marcel Duchamp was presented at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. Geometry is at the center and Duchamp turns out to be an artist obsessed with the missing eighth.

The transparent exhibition

The problem with Seeing is believing at Kunstwerke in Berlin can be called an overestimation of the transparent powers of the exhibition as a form to accommodate works of pictorial criticism.

Art and prostitution

John Kørner’s paintings of women prostitutes are filled with creative energy at the formal level. But the energy doesn’t always carry across to the political level.

After the White Cube

The Twelfth Istanbul Biennial’s conservatism is the necessary condition for a series of radical curatorial decisions and artistic positions.

Reading an Exhibition

The Spiral and the Square: Exercises in translatability at Bonniers Konsthall raises basic questions about how one reads a wide-ranging group exhibition.

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