The Finnish Pavilions in Venice aim to recognize nature’s agency but fail to create a garden of knowledge.
The fierce public debate over a possible Guggenheim Helsinki initiated Checkpoint Helsinki, an artist-drafted proposal for a new institution now making its first open call for pilot productions.
“They have approved a building without considering what it is actually supposed to contain,” says Nivi Christensen on the forthcoming museum in Nuuk.
Fewer artists and a deeper focus make the 16th Gwangju Biennale a rare, organic experience.
Bonniers Konsthall develops Peter Weiss’s novel The Aesthetics of Resistance into an exhibition, but its core theme – class struggle – is conspicuously absent.
Kirsten Ortwed has spent a lifetime pushing sculpture to the edge. On the Danish isle of Bornholm, her art fits in almost suspiciously well.
