A Splash Becomes a Car that Crashes and Becomes a Splash
Cecilie Norgaard at O-Overgaden is painting about painting in the best possible sense.
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Art von Trier
Nikolaj Kunsthal tries to turn Lars von Trier’s films into visual art, but ends up advertising for the genius.
Systems Failure
What happens when the body falls apart? Goldin+Senneby are known for their brainy conceptualism. Now they have created their most personal exhibition yet.
We Are Doomed
Irony gives way to sincerity in Anne Imhof’s spectacular performance at Park Avenue Armory in New York.
Fata Morgana
Eliyah Mesayer’s fictional state has pitched its black tents in Aarhus. For those already familiar with Illiyeen, the project appears to be stagnating. Perhaps that is the point.
The Centre Cannot Hold
Nora Adwan meets an ongoing moral crisis with beauty and dogged optimism.
The Optimist
Everything you need to dream as Valeria Montti Colque’s recreates the Chilean Pavilion in Stockholm.
Drain the Sea
A show in Malmö reminds us that megalomaniacal ideas are best regarded as mind games.
The Joy in Painting
Francis Picabia was a maximalist, but it is his most minimal compositions that score the most points at a show of his late works in Paris.
Inside Job
Dabbling with an early computer led Albert Oehlen to not only redefine his approach to painting, but also question artistic practice as such. He could be a role model for the AI generation.
Inner Revolution
Ilavenil Vasuky Jayapalan’s exhibition Eezhavati at Kunsthall Oslo, serves as a space for gathering strength.
Heavenly Fire
Elina Merenmies’s retrospective in Turku draws on her Christian Orthodox faith to deepen our understanding of an oeuvre reverberating with grace.
