Best of 2024
Which were the most memorable shows in the Nordics this year? Staff writers and invited guests pick three of their favourites.
24 December
Kunstkritikk’s editor-in-chief Mariann Enge reflects on the art that captured the state of the world in 2024.
23 December
Winds of change blew across Freetown Christiania this year, bringing Kunstkritikk’s editor in Copenhagen hope that Danish art will one day be renewed there.
22 December
Sex and death in Helsinki, meditative landscape painting in Oslo, and a glimpse of art’s future in Copenhagen. Artist Ernst Billgren gives us his top-three list.
21 December
A small gnome hiding inside a fountain pump sent Kunstkritikk’s Norwegian editor, Stian Gabrielsen, into a nostalgic fit.
20 December
See which painters were at the top of their game in 2024, according to Copenhagen-based artist David Risley.
19 December
Kunstkritkk’s Nora Arrhenius Hagdahl on this year’s wildest shows in Stockholm.
18 December
The sound of a slide projector became a heartbeat in one of the exhibitions that inspired artist A K Dolven this year.
17 December
One of best exhibitions of the year reminded us that the world ends for someone every day. Artist Asta Lynge brings us today’s advent calendar entry.
16 December
In 2024, artist Jaakko Pallasvuo favoured cool nonchalance over political overdetermination.
15 December
The absurdity of Norwegian cabin culture was among the epiphanies that art gave Constance Tenvik in 2024.
14 December
‘A woodpecker’s attempt to peck through an opaque art world of gimmicks and false talismans’. What did artist and poet Zahna Siham Benamor single out for praise in 2024?
13 December
Kunstkritikk’s Emet Brulin on three shows that expanded art during a year of war and upheaval.
