Everything on Reykjavík’s art scene centres on Iceland’s fierce, all-enveloping landscape – even when it’s about something else entirely.
“They have approved a building without considering what it is actually supposed to contain,” says Nivi Christensen on the forthcoming museum in Nuuk.
Who steps up when the world is running amok? Kåre Frang draws a razor-sharp portrait of our era’s frayed nervous systems.
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.
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.
