Anne Haaning’s video montage is an elegant reminder of how an important chapter in Danish colonial history disappeared from our collective memory.
Here are the year’s three most memorable art events according to Louise Steiwer, one of Kunstkritikk’s regular contributors.
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.
Carola Grahn brings a pitch-perfect wit to Sámi feminism at Liljevalchs in Stockholm.
Copenhagen is currently home to several semi-aquatic reptiles. They speak volumes about attitudes and mummification. And of what an exhibition may be.
Matias Faldbakken will create memorial to the 2011 terror attack in Oslo.
The Swedish government’s plan to create an institutional behemoth, Moderna, is ill-advised and reckless.
