The seventh Borås biennial captures the conflicts of our time through texture, sensuality, spirituality, and ‘deep listening’.
Our Red Sky at Gothenburg Konsthall embodies how women’s experiences of sexual and racist violence can become tools for political change.
At a time when democratic elections enable undemocratic policies, how can we think about resistance inside and beyond the limits of art? An interview with philosopher Howard Caygill.
The New Human at Moderna Museet in Stockholm offers a complex image of the present, yet is less interested in viewing today’s political conflicts as part of a historical development.
Maria Eichhorn’s gesture of closing down Chisenhale Gallery in London during the exhibition is more reminiscent of organizational theory than a critique of capitalist labour.
Chto Delat captures political apathy at Gävle Konstcentrum, but the works need a more speculative form to better approach the disjointed subject they postulate.
What does it mean to be important in the art world? Marie Karlberg’s Stockholm show answers the question, one oversized business card at a time.
The feminist exhibition No Master Territories at Kunstnernes Hus unfolds as an open research project that can be extended and reconfigured through new voices.
Strong reactions from European leaders to Russia’s participation in this year’s biennial. Danish minister open to boicott.
Contemporary art’s rhetoric of doom has become a comfortable cliché, as the scramble for relevance turns resistance into a risk-free, legible aesthetic.
