The Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven is currently under attack for its radical and open program. In this interview, director Charles Esche discusses what he calls “the possibility of politics.”
This year’s LIAF (Lofoten International Art Festival) is emphasizing local roots and narrative, but the curatorial elbow room is restricted by overly limited resources.
In a recent lecture in Rotterdam, Nicolaus Schafhausen wished to pour cold water on the many discourse-lovers and meta-curators among us.
– I think that Picasso with Guernica began to realize that what he could show us is a proximity that is at the same time foreign and horrifying, art historian T.J. Clark says in this interview.
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.
