The Art of Defeat
Bonniers Konsthall develops Peter Weiss’s novel The Aesthetics of Resistance into an exhibition, but its core theme – class struggle – is conspicuously absent.
Review
In the Breakers
Kirsten Ortwed has spent a lifetime pushing sculpture to the edge. On the Danish isle of Bornholm, her art fits in almost suspiciously well.
Dora Budor’s Small Moments of Tenderness
Bonner Kunstverein show plays with split vision.
The Word for Summer Is Surface
Three exhibitions – by turns glossy, quiet, and flashy – fit Copenhagen’s event-packed month like a glove.
The Misanthrope Who Came in from the Cold
Matias Faldbakken’s memorial to the 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway makes security its aesthetic point.
Antipopulist Front
In Vienna, Mumok’s new director Fatima Hellberg is quietly reshaping how we move through the museum. And how the museum moves through us.
Whales Are Not Singing Anymore
In Oslo, Cecilia Vicuña presents two monumental collective works about the struggle for life in the sea.
Ghost Projector
The past haunts the present through the apparatuses that make our images in Lap See Lam’s exhibition at Henie Onstad Art Center.
It Was a Different Time
SUPERFLEX’s rescue ark is not intended for humans alone. Yet it is laden with human products and critiques of capitalism – all dressed up as capitalism.
Her Name Is Legion
Vibeke Tandberg is not one of those artists who stopped experimenting with age.
The Jewel Box
Moderna Museet’s painting bonanza glitters, but leaves little room for sustained looking.
Too Much Hope
The main exhibition at the 61st Venice Biennale is a spiritualist séance with no spirits present.
