Autumn’s Carousel
Carsten Höller looms large over the Danish art scene this autumn, alongside dreadfully thin-skinned pottery and a hospital for self-medication.
Commentary
Farewell to the Techno-Patriarchy
In Sweden, authors like Ursula Le Guin, Valerie Solanas, and the Danish poet Inger Christensen set a literary tone for an auspicious autumn season.
Nazi Art in Many Colours
An exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof recasts Emil Nolde as a Nazi. But this makes no occasion to shame his art, but one for both correcting and complicating art history.
Summer Sonata – Norway
Summertime is collection exhibition time, and this year is no exception. The City of Oslo’s art collection presented in a roundabout is one of the more creative takes on the genre.
Summer Sonata – Sweden
Local artists take on climate change in Boden, a Nordic Biennial in Örebro, and a Golden Lion-winning filmmaker in Stockholm. This is the Swedish art summer.
Summer Sonata 2019 – Denmark
This summer’s shows include an extraterrestrial ‘breast creature’ with a built-in fountain in Vejle Fjord. And you’ll soon find a huge Congolese tree trunk in a sculpture park near you.
We Asked for It
Netflix’s new art world horror film, Velvet Buzzsaw, capitalises on the real life horrors of the art world.
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.
