The Art of Speculating About the Future
The concept for the first Bergen Assembly is appropriated from a 1960s Soviet sci-fi novel. The outcome is both fascinating and annoying through its refusal to make itself accessible to a wider audience.
The concept for the first Bergen Assembly is appropriated from a 1960s Soviet sci-fi novel. The outcome is both fascinating and annoying through its refusal to make itself accessible to a wider audience.
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.
