States of emergency such as the COVID-19 pandemic offer opportunities for developing new visions – for art institutions, too. Here’s a workshop for anyone to use.
A timely exhibition at Bildmuseet in Umeå takes a look at that which we cannot see, but which nevertheless impacts life on Planet Earth beyond the human scale.
Who invented cyberspace? More than a decade before William Gibson defined the concept as a digital hallucination, two Danish artists formulated a vision about cyberspace without the use of computers.
– A website is a website is a website, explains internet art pioneer Jodi who are showing new work at Belenius/Nordenhake in Stockholm.
Before Post-Internet Art there was Internet Art. It is time to consider the links between the two.
The new Hilma af Klint inspired collection launched by the fashion company Acne is clever and stylish, but also reflects a facile and cynical faith in what fashion can do.
– Art has a kind of inherent Communist perspective, says Mikkel Bolt on the occasion of his new book. However, he is sceptical about art’s contribution to the revolution.
Sandra Vaka Olsen’s exhibition at Rolf and Olga Nowotny’s new venue in Copenhagen is a sleekly appetising and challenging philosophical reflection on a new phenomenological condition.
The Gothenburg biennial wishes to recapture playing and the imagination in the name of political change, but is only partially successful.
A trial may, for reasons of principle, be the only solution, says Michael Elmgreen after the artwork Prada Marfa has come into conflict with state laws in Texas.
When political rhetoric is used in the service of the art institution, the critique of the institution goes bankrupt.
John Kørner’s paintings of women prostitutes are filled with creative energy at the formal level. But the energy doesn’t always carry across to the political level.
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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