Visitor From Another World
Lee “Scratch” Perry’s entire persona and output comprise a complex Gesamtkunstwerk, a vast collage with roots dating back to 1958.
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I Am Not Your Cleaner
Protest and politics as seen through the work of generations of women artists in Poland.
Mask Dance
‘If a culture is not active it ossifies and becomes a museum exhibit. And if I’m not allowed to use it, who is?’ Jessie Kleemann performs Greenland’s cultural shifts with blubber, blood, and beads.
Autumn Is Coming
In Finland, the long Covid lull makes local artists and dialogue appear in a new light.
Autumn of Love
Social justice movements have had a strong impact on the Swedish art world, but whether it has actually become more permissive is up for debate.
Bad Contemporaneity
Sianne Ngai explains why art needs to embrace error in a world that is wrong.
Illiyeen
Eliyah Mesayer’s state for the stateless is not rooted in a specific place or geographic site, but in human encounters and alchemical connections.
Some Waves Wave Forever
The waves in Kinga Bartis’s painting Egg timer do not move in vain.
Hurry It’s Time!
Some of the webs found in Charlotte Johannesson’s artistic practice and why spinning and weaving the past into the future is so important.
‘Beauty belongs to the people’
Elisabeth Haarr, this year’s Festival Exhibitor at Bergen Kunsthall, thinks we know far too little about textiles and the place they hold in the cultural history of the world.
Resistance and Care
Eva-Lisa Bengtson could never fully live as the person she really was. But she paved the way for an entire movement and left a unique archive of Swedish trans history.
More, More, More Mountain
To put it wittily: the romantic in me has never seen a more realistic vision of Rondane than Harald Sohlberg’s.
