Forget Rilke
At Mint in Stockholm, an international group show offers a mind-expanding mix of erotics and poetry.
At Mint in Stockholm, an international group show offers a mind-expanding mix of erotics and poetry.
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.
Olof Olsson’s info comedy remains well-written, toe-curling, and entertaining, but leaves little room for doubt and vulnerability.
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 Niki de Saint Phalle retrospective at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter gives an overview of her extremely varied practice. But what is the message?
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?
At Moderna Museet, Nan Goldin’s unyielding world of images is given a luminous setting.
Lee Lozano’s caustic cultural critique depicts the violent perversions on which American culture is founded.
In Apichaya Wanthiang’s solo show at Munch Museum, intimacy is accompanied by a yearning for closeness.
Alexander Basil’s self-portraits at Nevven in Gothenburg are a bit banal, almost kitschy. At the same time, they harbour something deeply dark.
How is love complicit in the creation of racial hierarchies? The Swedish author and scholar offers a valuable lesson.
Two Jon Rafman shows in Berlin suggest a return of post-internet amorality. Or that young people are tired of identity politics.
Suddenly, you know someone in Oslo who has started a new centre for contemporary art in Lusaka.
‘There is no doubt that she painted some of the works included in the Temple series’, says Daniel Birnbaum, editor of a new book about Swedish artist Anna Cassel.
The Iron Throne is vacant. Hardly any Norwegian artists have solo shows at the major museums, and everyone worries about sustainability.
This year’s first opening night in Copenhagen whetted our appetite for more. The season’s dictates are British 90s art, French 80s sculpture, and Georgian folk painting. Oh, and Arken is rebranding.