Too Much Hope
The main exhibition at the 61st Venice Biennale is a spiritualist séance with no spirits present.
Stian Gabrielsen
Information Bloat
The inaugural exhibition of the New Museum’s expansion is undone by an inability to leave anything out.
Pressure Mounts in Venice
Strong reactions from European leaders to Russia’s participation in this year’s biennial. Danish minister open to boicott.
Arrested Dreamwork
Synnøve Persen’s landscapes imagine the Arctic beyond the tourist sublime.
A Sprinkle of Trauma
Halloween vibes at the Munch Museum as Kim Hankyul gives form to our increasingly intimate relation to media.
Transformed in Transit
Cultural theorist Paul Gilroy argues that today’s diasporic networks demand a new vocabulary.
Arctic Catwalk
Inuuteq Storch captures the life-or-death struggle between indigenous identity and its image.
Warning: Flashing Lights
This spring the Norwegian art scene is bursting with sci-fi, political vision, and largest-ever presentations of female artists.
21 December
Medieval psychedelia on jute canvas punched a hole through wall and time for Kunstkritikk’s Norwegian editor, Stian Gabrielsen.
18 December
Artist Damien Ajavon recalls a year scented with desire, doubt, sweat, perfume, and synthetic hair.
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15 December
In artist Lesia Vasylchenko’s account of the year, secret alphabets sprout to the hum of wind turbines.
