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.
‘Photography is a direct extension of the eye. It’s history writing from our own perspective’, says Inuuteq Storch, the first Greenlandic artist in the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Louise Steiwer looks back on a year when grief was finally allowed to fill the halls of art.
A triennial resembling The Blob and the fear of meeting another person’s gaze ever again: 2025 has left its mark on Tommy Olsson.
Pure hypocrisy: Denmark’s Minister for Culture praises art and culture in the fight against AI while the budget for the National Collection of Photography is slashed.
Christine Antaya decorates her tree with bright colours and a newfound love of nonsense.
