A Wonderful Treat
Vaginal Davis’s retrospective at six Stockholm institutions should come with a cautionary label. Her megalomania may fundamentally transform the viewer.
Review
Archival Anatomy
Tris Vonna-Michell spools through his late father’s enormous body of material with a gaze that develops the accumulation rather than the human.
The World Comes to Bergen
Indigenous Histories speaks poignantly about Indigenous cultures’ encounters with European colonialism. But what is this costly exhibition doing at the crisis-stricken museum Kode?
Contested Bodies
Tschabalala Self’s Finnish debut is a celebration of the artist’s neighbourhood in Harlem.
Hipster Cove
A focus on wellness and sustainability sends a breath of fresh air through Wanås sculpture park. But coddling the audience can never replace good sculpture.
Ersatz Grief
Taryn Simon has filled Cisternerne with the beautiful voices of twenty professional lamenters, but the magnificent sadness does not really hit home.
Free Us From the Nation States
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the national pavilions at the Venice Biennale are a problematic and dated premise for international contemporary art.
The Untouchable
Merlin Carpenter gives us the art he thinks we deserve at Borgenheim Rosenhoff in Oslo.
Phantom Pains
Do you fancy yourself an aesthete? Do you love finely tuned museum shows? Do you fetishise Indigenous art? Then the 60th Venice Biennale might be for you!
Fun(ny)
Nina Beier reminds us that no relationship should be considered unexpected in the 21st century.
Dreamwork
Thao Nguyen Phan confronts Vietnam’s colonial past, but not in the way we might expect.
Sápmi Is a Mindset
Britta Marakatt-Labba’s exhibition at the National Museum in Oslo confirms that alternative imaginaries to capitalism do exist.
