Anders Kreuger

Anders Kreuger (Sweden, 1965) has been active as a curator, writer and educator for two decades. Since 2019, he is Director of Kohta, a private kunsthalle in Helsinki. He moved there after eight years as Senior Curator at M HKA, the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp. In the 1990s he directed NIFCa and the Nordic Arts Centre at Suomenlinna outside Helsinki. Kreuger contributes to Kunstkritikk with some regularity. In 2012–18 he as a member of the Editorial Team for the London-based art journal Afterall.

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Can the Subaltern Build a Museum?

Can the Subaltern Build a Museum?

Two new art institutions in Almaty, Kazakhstan, are redefining the city’s role as a Central Asian contemporary art hub squeezed between Moscow and Beijing.

19 December Anders Kreuger

19 December Anders Kreuger

Curator Anders Kreuger lists this year’s most memorable exhibitions in his hometown Helsinki.

A Necessary Letter

A Necessary Letter

As the curator of the Russian Pavilion finally publicised his letter of resignation, its close ties to a warmongering Russian elite were conspicuously left out.

The Genial Republic

The Genial Republic

The freedom of art may be the single most disturbing phenomenon in a thoroughly organised democratic society – and its most shocking injustice.

A Decade, Viewed from the Outside

A Decade, Viewed from the Outside

Internationalisation undermined the existence of a Nordic art scene, while a new image of the region tainted by colonial history gained attention in the globalised art world of the 2010s.

How Compatible Should Museums Be? And Exhibitions? And Art?

How Compatible Should Museums Be? And Exhibitions? And Art?

Swedish art historian Kim West’s dissertation analyses how the 1960s vision of a ‘museum in movement’ transformed into an idea of the museum as a ‘catalyst for social change’.

Thanks for Raising the Curtain Carefully Then Replacing It

Thanks for Raising the Curtain Carefully Then Replacing It

Philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman’s exhibition at Jeu de Paume in Paris eloquently communicates the intoxication of rising up for freedom. But do we really need connoisseurs of uprisings?

The Pragmatic Anarchist, from a Swedish Perspective

The Pragmatic Anarchist, from a Swedish Perspective

A new book about Moderna Museet’s legendary director Pontus Hultén is broader and sharper, thus more speculative, than we can usually expect from a biography of this sort.

Lund’s Konsthall: Time and Again

Lund’s Konsthall: Time and Again

The conflict surrounding Lund’s Konsthall is self-fueling and never-ending.

Recently published

Spring Salad

Spring Salad

Geopolitics looms over everything in Denmark. But not on the art scene, which is serving up glam-rock, food happenings, and solo shows featuring international heavyweights.

Millennial Takeover

Millennial Takeover

The Swedish spring is marked by aesthetic confidence and structural uncertainty.

Warning: Flashing Lights

Warning: Flashing Lights

This spring the Norwegian art scene is bursting with sci-fi, political vision, and largest-ever presentations of female artists.

In Their Own Right

In Their Own Right

Greenland’s art scene has arrived. Shamans assist the curators, and the world’s first-ever national gallery devoted to the art of an Indigenous People is taking shape in Nuuk.