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The Banality of Censorship
What is a valid reason for a museum to cancel an exhibition? Last Thursday, a panel at Oslo Kunsthandel debated a recent censoring of artist Ole Jørgen Ness.
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#MeToo in the Swedish Art World
1625 Swedish art professionals and students signed a statement denouncing sexual assault and harassment. How can institutions guarantee a safe working environment?
The Beauty of Things Going Wrong
Britta Marakatt-Labba delivered the first ever lecture held in Sami at the Office for Contemporary Art Norway. It was simultaneously a painful and fascinating experience.
Forced into Politics
– For the Sápmi, art has always been a must. Art has paved the way for political change. So says Documenta artist Máret Ánne Sara, who is supporting her brother’s legal struggle to keep his reindeer.
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.
If we’re all Nordic, are some of us more Nordic than others?
Kunstkritikk’s stay in Nuuk turned out to be a transformative crash course in Greenland’s situation, history and culture.
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.
Reply to Nav Haq
Haq’s objections to my review do not change the fact that he has failed to confront secularity as an urgent and conflicted topic.
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.
– The Norwegian Art Scene Must be Decolonised
When Katya García-Antón first launched OCA’s focus on Sami art, many rejected the initiative as ‘exotic’. Today it is widely supported, and she gave an opening lecture at Arts Council Norway’s annual conference.
