Netflix n’ Hill
In Malmö, Tal R and Mamma Andersson cozy up with nineteenth-century renegade Carl Fredrik Hill in a fun show that struggles to make a lasting impression.
Review
Zoom on Speed
Everything moves at Copenhagen Contemporary. But movement is, as we know, relative when we can’t stand still ourselves.
Insatiable Us
In New Visions, the considered triennial at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, photography and new media are complicit in the exploitation of the planet’s resources.
In the Wait
Tarik Kiswanson’s gravity-defying sculptures imbue the brutalist interior of Bonniers Konsthall with tension – and a non-identitarian politics.
Around 1996
Esben Weile Kjær is having a ball in a show that reveals how shared history is reduced when art becomes embroiled in self-actualisation and experience economy.
Criticism Can Be Good
Reviews should be written for those who care, not for people in power. A new book collects some of the most savage criticism from the past sixty years.
True Stone
Whether sculptures can be true is probably impossible to determine. Benjamin Hirte has made four monoliths: an attractive and funny invitation to contemplate the word.
Undoctrinated
Indoctrination: Multivalent Gestures at Fotogalleriet gives food for thought, but maybe not for the reason the curator intended.
The Norwegian Artist Who Brought Painting Into the Space Age
Anna-Eva Bergman’s first major retrospective in Paris is unlike anything else.
Profane Illumination
When Daniel Birnbaum allies himself with the mystic Emanuel Swedenborg no alliance between matter and spirit seems impossible.
Like the Raven
In Odense Aka Høegh draws expressive lines between Greenlandic mythology and postcolonial identity, and points to the interconnectedness of everything.
Lost in Laurieland
Laurie Anderson’s much anticipated retrospective at Moderna museet has finally opened. Does it live up to the hype? Mostly no, but also a little bit yes.
