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Not Quite Human
Hanni Kamaly´s work about racial violence invites debate about cultural appropriation, but ultimately opens onto more complex questions of collective remembrance.
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Manipulate the Critic
Manipulate the World: Connecting Öyvind Fahlström at Moderna Museet confronts us with the question: what is the critical function of an image that shows that a cipher is a cipher?
History is Based on Translations
Despite the subtly intellectual exterior, the underlying current of Ana Torfs’s works at Pori Art Museum is the violence of history.
Touching Fragments of History
The Finnish photographer Heli Rekula translates a geographical journey into a narrative about the trauma experienced by Carelians after the Second World War.
Freedom Faded to a Dream
The partial and contested history of the Scandinavian faction of the Situationist International is surveyed in an ambitious exhibition at Kristianstad Konsthall.
Deja-vu in Humlebæk
Displaying marginal innovation, Louisiana’s Being There shows familiar post-internet art with a dash of humanism.
History Behind Glass
The exhibition Diorama. Inventing Illusion at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt misses the diorama’s potential as a tool to explore our digital present.
A Bouquet of Browns
In Steinar Haga Kristensen’s solo show at Kunstnerforbundet in Oslo the characters haul art and art history around as if they were both a burden and a source of nourishment.
What Only a Loving, Disinterested Eye Would Notice
What is the secret to Matias Faldbakken’s artistic and literary success? Fearlessness.
The Mistress of the House Is the Most Fearsome of All Beasts
At Lunds Konsthall, Simryn Gill adopts the serpent as an emblem of the exhibition’s generative ambivalence.
An Alien in a Glass Case
The Ovartaci exhibition at Charlottenborg is a welcome presentation of a vast, beautiful and peculiar body of work. It also highlights how contemporary art has lost all spirituality.
The End of Religion Is the Beginning of Art
The 8th Gothenburg biennial takes on one of the pressing issues of our time. Yet the disparity between its its aspiration and the result couldn’t be greater.
