Summer Reading
Kunstkritikk returns on August 12. Until then, catch up on our coverage of the Nordic and European art scene, from the Venice Biennale to Greenland and beyond.
Antipopulist Front
In Vienna, Mumok’s new director Fatima Hellberg is quietly reshaping how we move through the museum. And how the museum moves through us.
Whales Are Not Singing Anymore
In Oslo, Cecilia Vicuña presents two monumental collective works about the struggle for life in the sea.
Ghost Projector
The past haunts the present through the apparatuses that make our images in Lap See Lam’s exhibition at Henie Onstad Art Center.
It Was a Different Time
SUPERFLEX’s rescue ark is not intended for humans alone. Yet it is laden with human products and critiques of capitalism – all dressed up as capitalism.
Her Name Is Legion
Vibeke Tandberg is not one of those artists who stopped experimenting with age.
The Jewel Box
Moderna Museet’s painting bonanza glitters, but leaves little room for sustained looking.
A Scandinavian Prairie Wolf
Which memories do we preserve together, and which do we allow to fade into oblivion? It’s in that murky space that the collective coyote operates.
Too Much Hope
The main exhibition at the 61st Venice Biennale is a spiritualist séance with no spirits present.
A Time of Transition
Many of the pavilions at the 61st Venice Biennale manage to transcend the outdated structure of national representation.
Monsters On Guard
Transgressive creatures in the Nordic Pavilion.
Will Porn Save Us?
At the Danish Pavilion in Venice, the fertility crisis is displaced by an avalanche of sleek Scandinavian smut.
Love Will Tear Us Apart
The Antwerp Six exhibition reveals fashion as a system and presents the dilemmas that all creatives face today.
