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News
Controversial Sponsorship Agreement Ends
Astrup Fearnley Museum has not renewed its sponsorship agreement with Lundin Norway. The museum will review its entire sponsorship profile when Solveig Øvstebø takes over as director in May.
‘It’s important for me to recognise Kunstkritikk’s polyvocal nature.’
Mariann Enge takes over as acting editor of Kunstkritikk.
An Imagination Battle
Cultural ownership, decolonial listening, and Pablo Picasso were up for debate at Malmö Art Museum’s symposium on the mediation of public art collections.
Open Call for the Danish Pavilion
The Danish Arts Foundation changes its procedure: now, artists can apply to represent Denmark at the 2021 Venice Biennale.
Action in Solidarity With the Protests in Chile
In connection to the opening of an exhibition with Swedish-Chilean art at the Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg, the artists organized an action in support of the ongoing protests in Chile.
– I don’t see the new director calling me every other day
Partnership between Kunsten in Aalborg and Louisiana in Humlebæk will make Poul Erik Tøjner responsible for programming at both venues. The job as director in Aalborg is posted anew.
Notable Art Venue Closing
X-rummet is officially part of the National Gallery of Denmark, but over the course of its existence it became an institution in its own right.
Nordic News Weekly – June 28th
Social Democrat Joy Mogensen becomes Denmark’s new minister of culture, curators named for Alt_CPH 2020, and other news from the Nordic art field.
Nordic News Weekly – June 21st
The National Museum collaborates with the daughters of Norway’s wealthiest man, the Munch Museum collaborates with the regime in Saudi Arabia, and other hot topics from the Nordic art world.
Nordic News Weekly – June 14th
Gitte Ørskou becomes the director of Moderna Museet, Danish Social Democrats issue a new cultural policy, and the gallery Signal in Malmö shares art prize with other cultural initiatives.
Nordic News Weekly – June 7th
Biennials open in Moss and Örebro, profile updates for Den Frie and Kistefos Museum, and an artists’ housing project in Oslo may become reality.
