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.
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.
A new reality show about Odd Nerdrum’s family teases out the irony of the classical painter’s contempt for the present.
Palestine, Indigenous art, the Venice Biennale, and mood as a benchmark for quality. These are the articles that engaged our readers the most in 2024.
Kunstkritikk’s editor-in-chief Mariann Enge reflects on the art that captured the state of the world in 2024.
Winds of change blew across Freetown Christiania this year, bringing Kunstkritikk’s editor in Copenhagen hope that Danish art will one day be renewed there.
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