“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.
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.
“They have approved a building without considering what it is actually supposed to contain,” says Nivi Christensen on the forthcoming museum in Nuuk.
Fewer artists and a deeper focus make the 16th Gwangju Biennale a rare, organic experience.
Bonniers Konsthall develops Peter Weiss’s novel The Aesthetics of Resistance into an exhibition, but its core theme – class struggle – is conspicuously absent.
Kirsten Ortwed has spent a lifetime pushing sculpture to the edge. On the Danish isle of Bornholm, her art fits in almost suspiciously well.
