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.
Kunstkritikk’s editor-in-chief Mariann Enge reflects on the art that captured the state of the world in 2024.
Winds of change blew across Freetown Christiania this year, bringing Kunstkritikk’s editor in Copenhagen hope that Danish art will one day be renewed there.
Sex and death in Helsinki, meditative landscape painting in Oslo, and a glimpse of art’s future in Copenhagen. Artist Ernst Billgren gives us his top-three list.
A small gnome hiding inside a fountain pump sent Kunstkritikk’s Norwegian editor, Stian Gabrielsen, into a nostalgic fit.
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