Greenland’s art scene has arrived. Shamans assist the curators, and the world’s first-ever national gallery devoted to the art of an Indigenous People is taking shape in Nuuk.
Kunstkritikk’s Louise Steiwer looks back on a year when grief was finally allowed to fill the halls of art.
At last, Greenland’s largest cultural event is about the art and survival of Indigenous Peoples.
Like a safety pin in a school uniform, Sofie Winther’s kindergarten is an emblem of punk resistance.
There is widespread frustration with what contemporary art has become, says the British critic Dean Kissick. Now his much debated 2024 essay is being published in an extended Danish version.
At the Copenhagen art festival Under, the young scene is clearly in control. But is it also a bit too self-aware?
Inuit must learn from tradition and living memory in order to look ahead, was the message at a recent seminar on Greenlandic performance traditions.
Cecilie Norgaard at O-Overgaden is painting about painting in the best possible sense.
Eliyah Mesayer’s fictional state has pitched its black tents in Aarhus. For those already familiar with Illiyeen, the project appears to be stagnating. Perhaps that is the point.
What is worth going to war for? ask Inuk Silis Høegh and Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen in a 2004 work that is now more topical than ever.
Kunstkritikk’s Louise Steiwer looks back on a year of diaries sealed in bronze and a ghastly outlook on nature camouflaged by Romantic landscape paintings.
In her magnificent exhibition at Arken, Ursula Reuter Christiansen is a force of nature dancing among poppies and throwing eggs at bombs.
Geopolitics looms over everything in Denmark. But not on the art scene, which is serving up glam-rock, food happenings, and solo shows featuring international heavyweights.
The Swedish spring is marked by aesthetic confidence and structural uncertainty.
This spring the Norwegian art scene is bursting with sci-fi, political vision, and largest-ever presentations of female artists.
Greenland’s art scene has arrived. Shamans assist the curators, and the world’s first-ever national gallery devoted to the art of an Indigenous People is taking shape in Nuuk.
