Sociology and the Heart
Rosemarie Trockel’s monumental exhibition in Frankfurt is an overwhelming encounter with the intensely idiosyncratic abundance from which her art is composed.
Louise Steiwer
Zoom on Speed
Everything moves at Copenhagen Contemporary. But movement is, as we know, relative when we can’t stand still ourselves.
From Greenland to Venice
Inuuteq Storch will be the first artist from the North Atlantic region of the Danish commonwealth to represent Denmark at the Venice Biennale.
Around 1996
Esben Weile Kjær is having a ball in a show that reveals how shared history is reduced when art becomes embroiled in self-actualisation and experience economy.
True Stone
Whether sculptures can be true is probably impossible to determine. Benjamin Hirte has made four monoliths: an attractive and funny invitation to contemplate the word.
Like the Raven
In Odense Aka Høegh draws expressive lines between Greenlandic mythology and postcolonial identity, and points to the interconnectedness of everything.
Dull Rainbows
Kimsooja’s ethereal refracted light drowns in the darkness of Copenhagen’s Cisternerne.
Patriotism 2.0
Jeremy Deller’s exhibition in Copenhagen has a densely symbolic Britannia vibe, but his watchable videos counterbalance the giggly atmosphere with fewer jokes and greater nuance.
Beyond the Darkness
Occult rituals meet techno raves as curator and Gothic high priestess Agnes Gryczkowska conjures up healing communities in Paris.
The Gentrification Machine
Who will save the city from the rich? A spectacular venue in central Copenhagen forms a tight framework for Vermilion Sands’s softly curated show.
The Folly of Humanity
Dana Schutz paints human foolishness with expressive gestures, large formats, and thousands of references. Yet it feels as if something remains unsaid.
Modernism’s Cuckoo’s Nest
In Brussels, an exhibition about Hilma af Klint and likeminded spirits, asks what happens when Sweden finally lets her hair down. The answer – in part – is that she is hospitalised.
