With the exhibition Les Immatériaux, Jean-François Lyotard addressed an increasing intimacy between consciousnesses and things. A new book shows the continued relevance of his endeavour.
At the inauguration of the conference Nordic Avant-Garde 1975-2000 in Copenhagen today, Ellef Prestsæter proposes a rethinking of the relation between avant-gardes and networks.
During a few glorious summer days, Kunstkritikk drove around Gotland with Jacqueline de Jong, re-experiencing a trip she made in 1964 with Asger Jorn and his Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism.
– In a Nordic context it is actually only when you recognize the transnational networks that you discover the avant-garde, says Tania Ørum.
What does it mean to be important in the art world? Marie Karlberg’s Stockholm show answers the question, one oversized business card at a time.
The feminist exhibition No Master Territories at Kunstnernes Hus unfolds as an open research project that can be extended and reconfigured through new voices.
Strong reactions from European leaders to Russia’s participation in this year’s biennial. Danish minister open to boicott.
Contemporary art’s rhetoric of doom has become a comfortable cliché, as the scramble for relevance turns resistance into a risk-free, legible aesthetic.
