The Danish Arts Foundation changes its procedure: now, artists can apply to represent Denmark at the 2021 Venice Biennale.
Partnership between Kunsten in Aalborg and Louisiana in Humlebæk will make Poul Erik Tøjner responsible for programming at both venues. The job as director in Aalborg is posted anew.
Lea Porsager combines the zany with the stringent as she casts herself as a sex-obsessed shaman, conjuring images of things that are not visible to the naked eye.
Our present day has a desire for images so fierce that it threatens to destroy us, according to Irena Haiduk, whose exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg is shrouded in total darkness.
Social Democrat Joy Mogensen becomes Denmark’s new minister of culture, curators named for Alt_CPH 2020, and other news from the Nordic art field.
Gitte Ørskou becomes the director of Moderna Museet, Danish Social Democrats issue a new cultural policy, and the gallery Signal in Malmö shares art prize with other cultural initiatives.
The new museum Kunstsilo in Kristiansand is fully financed, Galerie Nordenhake will receive an award at Art Basel, and a Danish exhibition of political art sparks controversy before the opening.
In her beautiful sci-fi noir installation at the Danish Pavilion in Venice, Larissa Sansour asks what the memory of national identity means once a tsunami has washed away everything.
New directors at Malmö Art Museum and Art Hub Copenhagen, artist lists from the biennials in Gothenburg and Lofoten, and other news from the Nordic art field.
Venice Special: a guide to Nordic exhibitions and events taking place during the Venice Biennial’s opening days.
Måns Wrange is elected the new principal of Oslo National Academy of the Arts, a new konsthall opens in Stockholm, and other news from the Nordic art field.
Louisiana’s grand Pipilotti Rist show presents 30 years of intimate exchanges between body and screen, from low-fi punk to immersive installations.
This year’s instalment of the Nuuk Nordic Culture Festival opened with a call to think outside of the national frameworks that have organised history writing in the Nordic countries.
The reason the work was effective was that I thought that I did not read the text that I had to read in order to understand the work.
Are we seeing a ketchup effect? Two years after #MeToo arrived, Denmark discusses equality and gender quotas in typically haphazard fashion, but at a new level.
Merike Estna’s paintings at Moderna Museet Malmö are inviting, strange, and genuinely convinced of their own vanity.
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