We Asked for It
Netflix’s new art world horror film, Velvet Buzzsaw, capitalises on the real life horrors of the art world.
Commentary
Spring Sonata – Norway
It’s time to stop grieving over the National Gallery and look forward to a new era for the Norwegian art world. Here are the must-see exhibitions coming up in the months ahead.
Spring Sonata – Sweden
In Sweden, the spring season is dominated by some of Norway’s most acclaimed artists. And at Nationalmuseum, the Danish golden age is recreated.
Spring Sonata – Denmark
The upcoming general elections are unlikely to change the dazed confusion of Danish cultural politics. But an exhibition about the EU and a Sonja Ferlov Mancoba retrospective look promising.
Make Bergen Great Again
Bergen’s plans for becoming an international cultural city overlooks the fact that the city already is.
Autumn Sonata – Sweden
Stockholm’s gallery scene is transformed, while new directors take over at several of the major institutions. And one of Scandinavia’s oldest biennials is reawakened and rejuvenated.
Autumn Sonata – Norway
A rowing trip to Tromsø, critique of the silencing of women and a speculative approach to the concept of ‘extraction’. It is the many kunsthalles across Norway that lead the way the coming art season.
Autumn Sonata – Denmark
Solid solo exhibitions, even of a more woke variety, lie ahead this autumn season. But this year, it was the Danish minister for culture who set the ball rolling.
Social Housing Dreams
The great paradox of the UKS’s proposal for affordable housing for artists is that it should apply to everyone, not just artists.
The Revolution May Not Be Scrutinised
The true story about Kunstkritikk’s attempt at interviewing the curators of We Don’t Need Another Hero, the 10th Berlin Biennale.
A Monumental Challenge to Danish History
The monument I Am Queen Mary forces the Danish public to realize they no longer have the stage of history to themselves, while its reception shows that colonial memory remains a battleground
Colonising the Norwegian Art Scene
Every alarm bell should be ringing when the art fair Art Basel wants NOK 3.4 million to tell us how to be more international.
