The House Is Quiet
FOS’s exhibition at Nils Stærk in Copenhagen is full of language, but as is often the case when shows are best, the words are not really uttered.
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Fun at Work
Maurizio Cattelan’s show at Moderna Museet rejects both religion and politics as models for art. Instead, it proposes, artists can take back control by slacking off.
Nomadic Sisterhood
In Denmark, the International Women’s Day was about women of the nation cast in bronze and women of the desert of flesh and blood.
If Wishes Were Horses
Paul McCarthy meets Scandinavian collectivism in Josefin Arnell’s films at Index in Stockholm.
The Art of Crazy
Can collective psychotherapy cure contemporary art? A new show at Palais de Tokyo suggests it might.
Anti-fashion
Cindy Sherman’s five decades of collaborations with the fashion world demonstrate her fascination with the elusive nature of fashion photography.
Moonlight Over Grozny
At Lund Konsthall, Aslan Goisum makes the audience navigate between graves.
Smouldering
Yael Bartana mixes fiction and reality in a deliberately manipulative way. So why does Gammel Strand do so little to qualify the audience’s experiences?
Mic Drop
Berlinde De Bruyckere gives the Stockholm audience a timely lesson in humility.
A Conflict-free Environment
Earthworks showcases pioneering work on Nordic eco-art, but the exhibition’s most pressing questions do not take proper flight.
Shitty Feelings
From instagram fame to art world success. Norwegian Trude Viken’s show at Belenius in Stockholm returns us to a realm of childhood attachments.
It’s Complicated
After two feature films, Anna Odell confronts the memory of an inappropriate sexual relationship. But the shocking story is not the core of the work.
