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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The Saddest Show in Art History

The Saddest Show in Art History

A public event in Vilnius launching next year’s Baltic Triennial underscored the radical difference between being claimed by war and claiming detachment from it.

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.

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The Art of Defeat

The Art of Defeat

Bonniers Konsthall develops Peter Weiss’s novel The Aesthetics of Resistance into an exhibition, but its core theme – class struggle – is conspicuously absent.

In the Breakers

In the Breakers

Kirsten Ortwed has spent a lifetime pushing sculpture to the edge. On the Danish isle of Bornholm, her art fits in almost suspiciously well.

Dora Budor’s Small Moments of Tenderness

Dora Budor’s Small Moments of Tenderness

Bonner Kunstverein show plays with split vision.

The Word for Summer Is Surface

The Word for Summer Is Surface

Three exhibitions – by turns glossy, quiet, and flashy – fit Copenhagen’s event-packed month like a glove.