Mood over Content
After art’s artistic turn, mood is the new benchmark for quality in contemporary art, positing a philosophically sustainable alternative to spectacle and newness.
After art’s artistic turn, mood is the new benchmark for quality in contemporary art, positing a philosophically sustainable alternative to spectacle and newness.
Allegations of sexual misconduct in a Vaginal Davis work at Moderna Museet raise questions about art’s toxic culture of privilege.
Experimental attitudes are back in vogue in Norway this autumn, with an archive of ground-up items and DIY biotechnology as menu highlights.
The Danish art institutions offer female pleasure and Artificial Intelligence. Meanwhile, art students in Aarhus are well prepared for an autumn of activism.
A wave of new alternative exhibition venues offer glimmers of light as Sweden enters the gloomy season.
Recent organisational changes promise a scandal-free Documenta 16. But how credible is a world expo of the arts in Germany’s current cultural climate?
Our obsession with instant emotional returns robs us of the ability to understand the culture in which we live.
Denmark is awash with spring blockbusters – plus glimpses of experiments and resistant poetics.
Can art address issues other than the environment in 2024? Not according to Norwegian institutions’ spring programmes.
The National Museum is in a crisis and a call to support Gaza divides the art world but everyone joins hands for the sake of queer- and performance art.
When the ideas about art’s autonomy and the death of the author have been consigned to the landfill, all that remains is the naked sender.
In its tenth iteration, Performa in New York City seems to have forgotten to ask itself fundamental questions about the relevance of its curatorial model.
Winds of change blew across Freetown Christiania this year, bringing Kunstkritikk’s editor in Copenhagen hope that Danish art will one day be renewed there.
Sex and death in Helsinki, meditative landscape painting in Oslo, and a glimpse of art’s future in Copenhagen. Artist Ernst Billgren gives us his top-three list.
A small gnome hiding inside a fountain pump sent Kunstkritikk’s Norwegian editor, Stian Gabrielsen, into a nostalgic fit.
Is Berlin losing its position as a haven for artists due to German repression of pro-Palestinian voices? Six Nordic artists and curators respond.