Summer Exhibitions
Kunstkritikk will resume publication on 12 August. Meanwhile, read our reviews of selected exhibitions from across the Nordics. Have a great summer!
Subject to Conditions
Panteha Abareshi’s inimitable exhibition focuses on bodies with disabilities. However, we have to bypass a didactic aesthetic to get to the radical material.
Is It Working?
The title of Simon Dybbroe Møller’s mid-career survey, Thick & Thin, suggests a formal investigation into sculpture. But the artist’s reflections on labour hit much harder.
Eco-Pioneer at Lunds Konsthall
Agnes Denes’s torch is carried on by Åsa Sonjasdotter.
Bringing the War Home
There is little affect in Toril Johannessen’s exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall, but it is full of the most human of all resources: labour.
A Wonderful Treat
Vaginal Davis’s retrospective at six Stockholm institutions should come with a cautionary label. Her megalomania may fundamentally transform the viewer.
The World Comes to Bergen
Indigenous Histories speaks poignantly about Indigenous cultures’ encounters with European colonialism. But what is this costly exhibition doing at the crisis-stricken museum Kode?
Contested Bodies
Tschabalala Self’s Finnish debut is a celebration of the artist’s neighbourhood in Harlem.
Hipster Cove
A focus on wellness and sustainability sends a breath of fresh air through Wanås sculpture park. But coddling the audience can never replace good sculpture.
Fun(ny)
Nina Beier reminds us that no relationship should be considered unexpected in the 21st century.
Sápmi Is a Mindset
Britta Marakatt-Labba’s exhibition at the National Museum in Oslo confirms that alternative imaginaries to capitalism do exist.
