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The wish to compromise sometimes gives the Danish art scene a ‘Truman Show’ feel, says Yvette Brackman, whose new exhibition, opening at Overgaden tonight, contains both theatre and therapy.
“I had no idea that graffiti existed,” says Dan Perjovschi, who has filled the walls of Kunsthall Trondheim with a cacophony of words and simple pictograms dealing with global neoliberalism and popular revolt.
– With the rejection of Manet’s Déjeuner sur l’herbe from the Salon the painting fell into a limbo of sorts. It was art denied in its art quality. That is what non-art is, says Thierry de Duve.
Petra Cortright recently opened her first show in Scandinavia. “Never before seen. Very fun”, as the “post-internet”-artist said to Kunstkritikk.
Thomas Hirschhorn is a rebel, an academic, a commercial artist, and an activist. Visiting Oslo last Thursday he talked to Kunstkritikk about everything from his monuments to love.
Terms such as openness, communication, and diversity abound as the new director of OCA, Katya García-Antón, present her plans for the institution.
“If you can commemorate the Holocaust you can commemorate anything,” says Jeremy Deller, one of eight artists/architects participating in the competition to create memorials commemorating the terrors of 22 July 2011.
This spring the Danish art scene presents Cory Arcangel, Hilma af Klint, Kerry James Marshall, an exhibition about conceptual art as a concept, and a re-staging of Palle Nielsen’s The Model from 1968.
Elastic Gallery moves from Malmö to Stockholm, and the history of Swedish photography is in focus at exhibitions in both Gothenburg, Stockholm, and Malmö.
In Nikita Teryoshin’s exhibition in Oslo, a coffee mug encounters high-tech missiles on a trade fair table.
The Arts and Culture Magazine Publishers Forum announces an open call for a writer to join a research trip to Oslo.
Cecilie Norgaard at O-Overgaden is painting about painting in the best possible sense.
Nikolaj Kunsthal tries to turn Lars von Trier’s films into visual art, but ends up advertising for the genius.
