Introspective
Ulla Wiggen’s retrospective at EMMA in Espoo uncovers her ever-evolving ability to worm her way beneath the surface of the ordinary.
Review
Speak to the Earth
Manifesta 15 in Barcelona forces visitors to spend time in the periphery and confront the central issues of our time.
Long Live Surrealism!
Centre Pompidou’s centennial exhibition is a celebration of an art which surrenders itself to Eros.
How it Stacks
Sculpture is re-articulated as a type of gathering in Silje Figenschou Thoresen’s exhibition at the Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo.
On the Nose Gaze
Frida Orupabo’s exhibition at Bonniers Konsthall is unambiguously political.
Dance of Life
Astrid Svangren’s new show in Stockholm is a compelling return to figuration.
Take Courage, Children of the World!
In her magnificent exhibition at Arken, Ursula Reuter Christiansen is a force of nature dancing among poppies and throwing eggs at bombs.
Organ Breeding
The unreality of contemporary existence prompts a new twisted realism in Roderick Hietbrink’s show at BO in Oslo.
Photographing Degree Zero
At a turning point for Berlin’s KW, Pia Arke makes her debut outside the Nordic countries, showing a third way between activism and abstraction.
From Canon to Covid
Serlachius in Finland goes all in with a sprawling, amusing and disturbing show about masks.
Subject to Conditions
Panteha Abareshi’s inimitable exhibition focuses on bodies with disabilities. However, we have to bypass a didactic aesthetic to get to the radical material.
Is It Working?
The title of Simon Dybbroe Møller’s mid-career survey, Thick & Thin, suggests a formal investigation into sculpture. But the artist’s reflections on labour hit much harder.
