Arrested Dreamwork
Synnøve Persen’s landscapes imagine the Arctic beyond the tourist sublime.
Review
Still Fighting
Klara Lidén has turned professional, keeping her body strong and her gaze fierce. Will she still get hurt if she slips off the knife-edge she’s dancing on?
Bartleby, the Cineast
At Moderna Museet Malmö, John Skoog asks if beauty can endure the crude logic of power.
A Sprinkle of Trauma
Halloween vibes at the Munch Museum as Kim Hankyul gives form to our increasingly intimate relation to media.
CC Hennix’s Endless Equation
Malmö Konsthall’s retrospective feels like falling into someone’s cryptic notebook.
Nordic Core
At Henie Onstad, Ann Lislegaard’s brooding, apocalyptic tone feels less unsettling than predictable, trading genuine tension for a well-worn sense of gloom.
Soft Focus, Hard Aura
A glossy promise hovers just beyond the frame at the artist-run space Antics in Stockholm.
Arctic Catwalk
Inuuteq Storch captures the life-or-death struggle between indigenous identity and its image.
Grown-up Points
Who steps up when the world is running amok? Kåre Frang draws a razor-sharp portrait of our era’s frayed nervous systems.
Prophetic Trash
In 2026, Isa Genzken’s assemblages appear as luminous icons. Beauty becomes an anchor when the world refuses to cohere.
The Radiant Light of the Queer Sun
A new book by artist Afrang Nordlöf Malekian and art historian Nour Helou explores beauty as a geopolitical force, from the Iranian Qajar dynasty into the present.
Licking Salt
Anawana Haloba’s exhibition at the National Museum of Norway is so visceral it sets your tongue tingling.
