Crises at the Art Academies in Oslo, Stockholm, and Copenhagen
The art academies in the three Scandinavian capitals are all without rectors – and with staff and students openly mistrusting the management.
The art academies in the three Scandinavian capitals are all without rectors – and with staff and students openly mistrusting the management.
An artistic parade and healing session undertaken Sunday aimed to remove the social housing community AKB Lundtoftegade from the so-called ghetto list – a list with fateful consequences.
French artist Saâdane Afif, convener for the next edition of Bergen Assembly, sees the triennial as mainly a local event.
Måns Wrange points to allegations of bias in the conflict over anti-discrimination measures at the school as a reason for his resignation.
Oslo artist Victor Mutelekesha is the founder of Zambia’s first centre for contemporary art.
Judging by statements made by the heads of Norwegian art institutions in the wake of this year’s Black Lives Matter protests, lack of will is not the issue when striving for greater diversity.
Artists Máret Ánne Sara, Anders Sunna and Pauliina Feodoroff will represent Sápmi at the 2022 Venice Biennale.
Steffen Håndlykken, chair of the board of Young Artists’ Society, believes that the three hundred temporary grants to be awarded in 2021 should become a permanent scheme.
The Oslo Biennial was going to invigorate the local art scene and pioneer new curatorial methods. Now, it’s being brought to an end two years ahead of schedule. What went wrong?
The artists behind the much-debated play Ways of Seeing cover the trial against Laila Bertheussen with self-produced online television.
The Oslo City Department of Culture has decided to end the first instalment of the city’s biennial two years earlier than planned, due in part to financial overspending.
Criticism has moved from the daily newspapers to niche media. This should be reflected in Denmark’s new media policy agreement, says Kamilla Löfström of United Critics Denmark.
Despite rather uncertain prospects, these are the art events we look forward to in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
Few will feel any great desire to look back on 2020. Even so, the year of the COVID-19 pandemic provided some memorable artistic highlights in the Nordic countries.
Kunstkritikk’s Editor-in-Chief Mariann Enge rounds off this year’s Christmas countdown with three exhibitions from 2020 that gave her hope.
Which were the most crackerjack exhibitions of 2020 according to Kunstkritikk’s Swedish editor?