Market Art Fair Returns After One-Year Hiatus
‘If I were forced to name an upside of the pandemic, it has been that it gave us time to reflect on and re-evaluate what we do’, says Sara Berner Bengtsson, new Managing Director of the Nordic art fair.
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Art Hub Appoints Director Team
Jacob Fabricius and Lars Bang Larsen will become joint directors of Art Hub Copenhagen.
A Change to Norway’s Immigration Policy for Artists?
Rodrigo Ghattas-Pérez is co-founder of Scandinavia’s only support network for foreign artists.
‘The era of New Public Management is coming to an end’
After a year of fierce conflicts, the newly elected rector of the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Markus Degerman, wants to look ahead.
Martha Rosler on Ice
‘We want the works to sink to the seabed only as a thought in the viewer’s mind’, say the curators of Goodbye, World, a biodegradable exhibition installed on a remote ice floe in northern Sweden.
Finland to Repatriate Sámi Artefacts
‘Repatriation is about so much more than just the objects’, say Sámi artists Petra Laiti and Outi Pieski, curators of an exhibition about the historic event at the Finnish National Museum this autumn.
Okwui Enwezor’s Last Exhibition
Will Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America be as formative as Documenta 11 was at the start of the millennium? A report from a panel debate in New York.
Gothenburg’s First LGBTQI+ Monument
‘I hope it will be very powerful, like a muted, solemn pride parade’, says artist Sam Hultin, who is involved in the preparatory study for the monument.
‘Harassment of artists is a way to power’
Partner of ex-minister used all available channels to throw suspicion on the play Ways of Seeing, according to Oslo District Court. Director Pia Maria Roll is relieved over the verdict passed on Friday.
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.
‘From hard to heart’
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.
‘I never address myself to an art audience’
French artist Saâdane Afif, convener for the next edition of Bergen Assembly, sees the triennial as mainly a local event.
