Painter’s Delight
Viktor Kopp’s new exhibition in Stockholm reframes the dichotomy between sensual and intellectual pleasure. He also returns to a favourite subject: chocolate.
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You’ll Die With All the Animals
Who Wants to Live Forever? at Kunsthall Trondheim is a morality play that urges us to reconcile with our impermanence.
The Show Is Not Over
In a closed-down Paris, Wu Tsang’s all-embracing exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations stages the desire to transcend the boundaries of the body and the psyche.
Off to Neverland!
The liberating potential of partying forms the focal point of Esben Weile Kjær’s outstanding performance, which portrays millennials as a generation poised between anxiety and self-staging.
Owning Your Holes
Miriam Cahn summons real and timely struggles in a powerful show composed in the language of dreams.
Will Future Artists Come From the Banana School?
The exhibition featuring Goodiepal’s collection is also a retrospective of ‘Goodiepal’ the phenomenon, which is also a school, a band, and a refugee organisation.
Can You Love Adorno and Contemporary Art at the Same Time?
To professor of critical theory Juliane Rebentisch, contemporary art is mainly an academic problem.
A Game of Chess With Death
Manifesta 13 in Marseille – one of the European cities hardest hit by the pandemic – unbolts the door to madness. But is madness enough in these insane times?
Hardcore
After a ten-year hiatus, Kristina Eriksson is back with a new set of paintings about the main feature of human inadequacy – that we are all going to die.
Who Will Remember?
At Kristiansand Kunsthall, Apichaya Wanthiang captures the anxieties and fears of a pandemic-stricken world.
Suffering Into Action
Our Red Sky at Gothenburg Konsthall embodies how women’s experiences of sexual and racist violence can become tools for political change.
Mnemosyne Lost
HKW in Berlin revives Aby Warburg’s original picture atlas. For contemporary audiences it is a display both evocative and impenetrable.
