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Make Bergen Great Again
Bergen’s plans for becoming an international cultural city overlooks the fact that the city already is.
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Masslessness for the Masses
A digital installation by the Japanese collective teamLaB has brought Helsinki’s new art museum Amos Rex twice as many visitors as expected.
Art in the age of Black Power
‘Soul of a Nation’ at the Brooklyn Museum is an outstanding exposé of the art that emerged in tandem with the promotion of black collective interests in the 1960s and 70s.
Messy Ecologies
On Circulation at Bergen Kunsthall reveals symbiotic relations between living and dead matter. It is an art that critically opens up to the future.
Northern State of Mind
For the 16th Luleå Biennial, the darkness of the polar night is imbued with dreams of new forms of aesthetic and political resistance.
A Taste for Heaven
Art historian T. J. Clark’s new book sketches a vision for a new political Left through the affective registers and subtleties of painting.
The Spleen of the Periphery
– Catastrophe is a recurring figure in Greek history, says Angela Melitopoulos, the artist behind the solo exhibition opening tonight at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen.
(Un)happy Memories of Situationism
Compact exhibition in Malmö shows an inclusive and pluralistic interpretation of Situationism while a giant exhibition in Berlin appears absorbed by the idea of the movement’s exclusivity.
Nordic News Weekly – November 16th
ARoS Art Museum under fire for not paying artists, anti-fascist conference at the Luleå Biennial, and other news from the Nordic art field this week.
Disaster Sculpture
At almost 80 years of age, Swedish sculptor Lars Kleen aspires to renew his medium at every turn. His most recent work evokes the dire consequences of climate change.
Nordic News Weekly – November 9th
Abuse at the Royal Danish Academy of Art, artists’ studios at the National Gallery in Oslo, a reopening of Magasin III in Stockholm, and more.
Forward, Starfish!
Elmgreen & Dragset’s minimalist starfish installation in Paris resonates directly with the city’s self-image after the terrorist attack in 2015.
