The (Other) White Gold
Anne Haaning’s video montage is an elegant reminder of how an important chapter in Danish colonial history disappeared from our collective memory.
Review
Kept Here by Our Bodies
The Physical World Was Still There at Konsthall C is a gripping account of the human desire to escape reality. It has tenderness, grief, pain and lyricism.
North of the World
The web of global entanglements and flows described by A beast, a god, and a line at Kunsthall Trondheim omits the exhibition’s immediate context.
Elegance’s Internationalisms
Le monde nouveau de Charlotte Perriand is an imposing presentation of an artist who registers the contradictions of the 20th century. But did Perriand’s world consist only of men?
Taking a Step Back to Move Forward
The new MoMA relinquishes its position as the model museum in order embrace diverse, queer, and complex subjectivities, and give modernism a new beginning.
Reinstating the Genius
Iris Smeds’s exhibition at Bonnier’s Konsthall is an exorcism of neoliberal exceptionalism.
Art for Much More Than Art’s Sake
Hans Haacke’s timely retrospective echoes urgent ethical issues around the role of museum boards in shaping policies towards labor and finance.
Enduring Frames
Daisuke Kosugi’s poignant portrait of human illness at Fotogalleriet in Oslo invites reflections on present-day obsessions with physical self-maintenance.
The Beautiful End
In Cyprien Gaillard’s exhibition in Stockholm, the angel of fascism dances for an eternal and desirable sleep.
Painting In a Time of Global Warming
Merike Estna’s paintings at Moderna Museet Malmö are inviting, strange, and genuinely convinced of their own vanity.
Desiring the Other
Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin asks how we might carry on the legacy of the avant-garde in a postcolonial context. But who the hell is Hubert Fichte?
Pied Piper in the Funhouse
Like a giant daddy figure, Carsten Höller tosses us around, making us all giddy and dizzy. The entire set-up relies heavily on our willingness to take on the role of gullible children.
