Kristian Skylstad er poet og fotograf.
Undoctrinated
Indoctrination: Multivalent Gestures at Fotogalleriet gives food for thought, but maybe not for the reason the curator intended.
Indoctrination: Multivalent Gestures at Fotogalleriet gives food for thought, but maybe not for the reason the curator intended.
– Now we see exactly how a mentally ill person can get into power, says Laurie Anderson, who visited Oslo last weekend to screen her film Heart of a Dog.
– We need to pause and read the wind, says Camille Norment, who represents Norway with a site-specific, sculptural and sonic installation in the Nordic Pavilion in Venice.
– My ideal conversation partner in art is a stranger, says Bjarne Melgaard, who is currently exhibiting his art alongside that of Edvard Munch at the Munch Museum.
– When you need a change, you should change to the opposite, from light to dark, from black to white, says Goutam Ghosh, who has his first show at Standard (Oslo).
Thomas Hirschhorn is a rebel, an academic, a commercial artist, and an activist. Visiting Oslo last Thursday he talked to Kunstkritikk about everything from his monuments to love.
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.