Best of 2025
Which were the most memorable shows in the Nordics this year? Staff writers and invited guests pick their favourites.
24 December
Kunstkritikk’s Editor-in-Chief Mariann Enge revisits a year marked by emotional storms, memory work, and the scent of wood lingering on her hands.
23 December
Kunstkritikk’s Swedish editor on a year marked by fragile ways of seeing.
22 December
Ramshackle, utterly quiet, and cunning as a fox. Kunstkritikk’s editor in Copenhagen reveals the cosmologies she most adored in 2025.
21 December
Medieval psychedelia on jute canvas punched a hole through wall and time for Kunstkritikk’s Norwegian editor, Stian Gabrielsen.
20 December
This year, Joanna Nordin, Artistic Director of Bonniers Konsthall, cherished the positive effects of recession.
19 December
In 2025, artist Oliver Bak took a close look at the left hand of one of art history’s most famous painters.
18 December
Artist Damien Ajavon recalls a year scented with desire, doubt, sweat, perfume, and synthetic hair.
17 December
Artist Leif Engström recalls moments of quiet mystery and unexpected intensity.
16 December
One of last year’s most original works reminded the Copenhagen duo All all all that some women have to spend Christmas in a refuge.
15 December
In artist Lesia Vasylchenko’s account of the year, secret alphabets sprout to the hum of wind turbines.
14 December
Hendrik Folkerts, curator at Moderna Museet, looks back on a dazzling year of performance in Stockholm.
13 December
This year, artist Tue Greenfort found shelter at a biennial in the far north.
