It’s Up to Us Now
Ways of Seeing is theatre with a political agenda, raising awareness by looking at a protected and privileged world from a position on its margins.
Review
Dark Inheritance
In her beautiful sci-fi noir installation at the Danish Pavilion in Venice, Larissa Sansour asks what the memory of national identity means once a tsunami has washed away everything.
The Problem of Organisation
The 58th Venice Biennale provides an image of art’s postdigital condition, where politics is consigned to the level of the individual artwork.
Good TV
What happened to the idea of a European public sphere? Artist Andjeas Ejiksson unearths a forgotten public service channel from the 80s.
Passing Through Painting
Nina Roos’s exhibition at Lund’s Konsthall appears to emerge from within the paintings themselves.
How Can Sensibilities Change After Metoo?
Roxy Farhat’s exhibition at Index in Stockholm shows how feminist reason can emerge in the face of patriarchy.
Not Being, But Becoming
Fondation Cartier shows how artists today try to invent a personal visual language where theory and politics are latent and unfathomable.
Endless Endless
A dream in crisis? Europa Endlos is a curatorial essay on Europe, set against a backdrop of irony, globalisation, and Brexit.
A Bit of the Old Ultra-Violence
Twenty years after quitting the art world, Cady Noland pops up with a retrospective in Frankfurt.
Women Are Obliterated, yet Endure
In Athens, Sanja Iveković offers a critical view of the historical struggle against fascism in Greece and Yugoslavia.
You’re Living in a Greenhouse
Artificial light is linked to the demand for ceaseless economic growth in Istvan Virag’s pessimistic exhibition debut.
The Cult of Speed
SPEED 2 at Malmö Konsthall highlights our lack of genuine filmic communication.
