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.
Tracey Emin’s art may often be dismissed as self-centered or banal, but her unsentimental life’s work delivers the necessary reminder that the private remains common.
Everything on Reykjavík’s art scene centres on Iceland’s fierce, all-enveloping landscape – even when it’s about something else entirely.
Hélène Fauquet’s gleaming little treasure trove opened in Paris as the city burned and Art Basel Paris was forced to close early.
As established Oslo galleries fold, the artist-run scene edges ever closer to the market.