From Safeguarding Culture to Discussing It
In the future, the authority of museums will rest on their ability to explain why they have doubts. The discussion surrounding Kirchner and Nolde at the National Gallery of Denmark demonstrates why.
In the future, the authority of museums will rest on their ability to explain why they have doubts. The discussion surrounding Kirchner and Nolde at the National Gallery of Denmark demonstrates why.
The Sonja Ferlov Mancoba exhibition in Copenhagen sparked a correspondence between two artists and a curator on how to rewrite art history.
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.
Bonner Kunstverein show plays with split vision.
Three exhibitions – by turns glossy, quiet, and flashy – fit Copenhagen’s event-packed month like a glove.