Forget Rilke
At Mint in Stockholm, an international group show offers a mind-expanding mix of erotics and poetry.
Review
Everybody Dies and Everything Stays
In Germany, the large-scale commemoration of Michel Majerus’s untimely death provides an opportunity to revisit the 90s as a decade of both lost optimism and sinister beginnings.
Meta-potty
Olof Olsson’s info comedy remains well-written, toe-curling, and entertaining, but leaves little room for doubt and vulnerability.
C’est Stuplime!
As Europe arms itself for war, Paris is preparing for the 2024 Olympics. Cyprien Gaillard captures the stupid and the sublime in our increasingly bewildering world.
The Right to Anger
The Niki de Saint Phalle retrospective at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter gives an overview of her extremely varied practice. But what is the message?
The Silence of the Observer
An international cast of anonymous protagonists populates Francis Alÿs’s Children’s Games. But from what vantage point can the artist and today’s viewers connect across time, space, and cultures?
Oh, Snap!
At Moderna Museet, Nan Goldin’s unyielding world of images is given a luminous setting.
Pseudo-phallus
Lee Lozano’s caustic cultural critique depicts the violent perversions on which American culture is founded.
Skin as Screen
In Apichaya Wanthiang’s solo show at Munch Museum, intimacy is accompanied by a yearning for closeness.
Profound like ABBA
Alexander Basil’s self-portraits at Nevven in Gothenburg are a bit banal, almost kitschy. At the same time, they harbour something deeply dark.
Mara Lee’s Monstrous Demand
How is love complicit in the creation of racial hierarchies? The Swedish author and scholar offers a valuable lesson.
The Old New Wave
Two Jon Rafman shows in Berlin suggest a return of post-internet amorality. Or that young people are tired of identity politics.
