During a press conference at OCA last Thursday it was announced that US-born artist Camille Norment will represent Norway at the 2015 Venice Bienniale.
The autumn season on the Norwegian art scene offers exhibitions featuring the Bauhaus teacher Josef Albers, and the work of French filmmaker Chris Marker. Rameau’s nephews also make an appearance.
“The intention was to create an exhibition without a manifesto,” said curator Kasper König during the press conference opening the 10th installment of Manifesta in St. Petersburg.
This spring the Norwegian art scene offers us a midlife retrospective with Elmgreen & Dragset, a whole life retrospective with Aase Texmon Rygh, a Karl Kraus-hommage, as well as Susan Philipsz first project in Norway.
“If you can commemorate the Holocaust you can commemorate anything,” says Jeremy Deller, one of eight artists/architects participating in the competition to create memorials commemorating the terrors of 22 July 2011.
By appointing Enwezor the Board of Directors of the Venice Biennial have secured themselves one of the most experienced figures on the global biennial scene.
This Friday, the 10th anniversary of Kunstkritikk is celebrated at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo. All are welcome.
With the appointment of Katya García-Antón, OCA continues its tradition for recruiting its directors internationally.
David Horvitz is ready for the opening of Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF), but is still searching for a wooden spoon made from rowan tree to stir a soup he has made from a magic stone.
The successful travelling exhibition The Modern Eye was opened at the Munch museum last week. The Norwegian version of the exhibition includes a little-known newspaper vignette based on The Scream.
Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia? is an exciting “telephone catalog” but does not fulfill its ambition of becoming a serious research contribution.
Jacob Fabricius wants to include artist-operated galleries when he curates a Nordic section of The Armory Show in New York in March. That is, if they want to participate in this commercial arena.
Esben Weile Kjær may be a rising star, but his Solar System in Aalborg consists of rat-infested ruins, mutations, and epoxy diamonds. Is it for real or simply fake?
In Ann-Sofie Back’s Stockholm retrospective, fashion and death go hand in hand.
War is the artist’s muse in Vanessa Baird’s retrospective at Munch Museum in Oslo.
Katalin Ladik’s first major presentation in the Nordics underscores the transformative power of the voice.
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