Girl Power for a New Century
Friends, colleagues, artists, and activists. Apolonia Sokol creates radical forms of resistance through portrait painting.
Louise Steiwer
Sun King and Jester
Not all instruments are tuned to perfection in Frederik Næblerød’s Masquerade at Gl. Holtegaard. I danced anyway.
Full of Voices
‘We stand on the shoulders of those who came before us,’ say Julia Rodrigues and Francesca Astesani, the curators behind Charlottenborg’s anniversary exhibition.
Pissing on Putin
Pussy Riot delivers a frantic and riveting exhibition at Louisiana, but it runs the risks of becoming a short-term fix.
Freedom for Whom?
The Danish government’s bill to counteract Quran burnings sacrifices art’s autonomy, ambiguity, and freedom.
The Godmother of Modernism
A retrospective in Marseille wrests Algerian artist Baya free from the European tradition and offers an explicitly postcolonial and feminist reading of her work.
Conversations With Friends
Art is artistic again: sometimes enchanting, sometimes plain commercial. But with formal criteria long left behind, how do we tell the difference?
Arctic Rift
Intense, delicate, and carnal, Jessie Kleemann is everywhere. Two parallel exhibitions show that her emphasis on physicality is both her work’s greatest strength and its weakest link.
Late Summer Blossoms
The autumn exhibition season comes into full bloom this week. The lushness is particularly striking among female artists – the young and the overlooked.
Where’s Father?
At the end of the rainbow lies Alexander Tovborg’s church, suspended between mystical progression and post-ironic potpourri. But is it truly, as the artist proclaims, a church for everyone?
Museum, Know Your Artist
Despite Kirsten Justesen’s decades of thinking outside the gender box, Kunsten in Aalborg has pigeonholed her.
Antidote to Loneliness
‘I have always seen art as a lifesaver. As something that has driven me forward when I had difficulty finding my way home’, says performance artist Jules Fischer.
