Minia Biabiany’s exhibition at Signal in Malmö deals with the will to forget colonial history. Its starting point is Guadeloupe’s time as a Swedish colony, 1813–1814.
– My proposal advocates tapping into the ability of art to tell us about the future, says Maria Lind who will be curating the 11th Gwangju Biennial in South Korea next year.
Institutet’s performance Toleranshuvan Reloaded at Malmö Konsthall draws a dangerous border between people and implies that the situation cannot be changed.
The new directors at Konsthall C in Stockholm are Jens Strandberg and Jenny Richards, who start with an exhibition by Mierle Laderman Ukeles opening this weekend.
“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.
