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.
Many of the pavilions at the 61st Venice Biennale manage to transcend the outdated structure of national representation.
Transgressive creatures in the Nordic Pavilion.
At the Danish Pavilion in Venice, the fertility crisis is displaced by an avalanche of sleek Scandinavian smut.
The Antwerp Six exhibition reveals fashion as a system and presents the dilemmas that all creatives face today.