Which were the most memorable shows in the Nordics this year? Staff writers and invited guests pick three of their favourites.

8 December

An exhibition in Stockholm made artist Jóhan Martin Christiansen yearn for a new Danish art history. Not just for the well-connected hunks, but also for the naughty, the flamboyant, and those who left us far too soon.

2 December

Kunstkritikk’s Louise Steiwer looks back on a year of diaries sealed in bronze and a ghastly outlook on nature camouflaged by Romantic landscape paintings.

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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.