On the Nose Gaze
Frida Orupabo’s exhibition at Bonniers Konsthall is unambiguously political.
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Dance of Life
Astrid Svangren’s new show in Stockholm is a compelling return to figuration.
Take Courage, Children of the World!
In her magnificent exhibition at Arken, Ursula Reuter Christiansen is a force of nature dancing among poppies and throwing eggs at bombs.
Organ Breeding
The unreality of contemporary existence prompts a new twisted realism in Roderick Hietbrink’s show at BO in Oslo.
Photographing Degree Zero
At a turning point for Berlin’s KW, Pia Arke makes her debut outside the Nordic countries, showing a third way between activism and abstraction.
From Canon to Covid
Serlachius in Finland goes all in with a sprawling, amusing and disturbing show about masks.
Subject to Conditions
Panteha Abareshi’s inimitable exhibition focuses on bodies with disabilities. However, we have to bypass a didactic aesthetic to get to the radical material.
Is It Working?
The title of Simon Dybbroe Møller’s mid-career survey, Thick & Thin, suggests a formal investigation into sculpture. But the artist’s reflections on labour hit much harder.
A Cake for Your Face
Ida Ekblad’s paintings at Peder Lund are intimate physical events.
Jette’s Steiner School
Together with evening school students and diner staff, Sara Sjölin has created an ode to industrial kitchens and unappetising food, to teenage nonsense and Waldorf philosophy.
Eco-Pioneer at Lunds Konsthall
Agnes Denes’s torch is carried on by Åsa Sonjasdotter.
Bringing the War Home
There is little affect in Toril Johannessen’s exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall, but it is full of the most human of all resources: labour.
