The Optimist
Everything you need to dream as Valeria Montti Colque’s recreates the Chilean Pavilion in Stockholm.
Review
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.
A Slipping Surfer
Esben Weile Kjær may be a rising star, but his Solar System in Aalborg consists of rat-infested ruins, mutations, and epoxy diamonds. Is it for real or simply fake?
Back From the Grave
In Ann-Sofie Back’s Stockholm retrospective, fashion and death go hand in hand.
Inhuman Images
War is the artist’s muse in Vanessa Baird’s retrospective at Munch Museum in Oslo.
The Thinking Woman’s Shaman
Katalin Ladik’s first major presentation in the Nordics underscores the transformative power of the voice.
Contemporary Romantic
At the National Museum in Stockholm, art is reborn as art in enlightened dialogue with the past.
PG-13
Constance Tenvik’s interpretation of Greek antiquity at the Munch Museum in Oslo substitutes sexual and violent excesses for burlesque games.
