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.
Art should play a pivotal role in discussions about values today, says Kirsten Langkilde, the new rector at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
Helga Christoffersen’s delectable group show at Galleri Susanne Ottesen leaves me angry, excited, and hungry.
– Catastrophe is a recurring figure in Greek history, says Angela Melitopoulos, the artist behind the solo exhibition opening tonight at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen.
Elmgreen & Dragset’s minimalist starfish installation in Paris resonates directly with the city’s self-image after the terrorist attack in 2015.
Unlike a superhero movie, the 10th Göteborg Biennial does not seek to reach an audience consisting of all the people on earth.
At Statens Museum for Kunst, Shahryar Nashat has produced a captivating immersive experience that is both seductive and claustrophobic.
Dealing with bad art, the book Bad Writing is gloriously perverted in places. But it is also a slightly surly attack on what it calls ‘political correctness’.
‘In order to move on, you must also turn back’, says Lisa Rosendahl, curator of the 10th edition of the Göteborg Biennial, opening this Saturday.
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