The National Museum collaborates with the daughters of Norway’s wealthiest man, the Munch Museum collaborates with the regime in Saudi Arabia, and other hot topics from the Nordic art world.
Biennials open in Moss and Örebro, profile updates for Den Frie and Kistefos Museum, and an artists’ housing project in Oslo may become reality.
The first edition of the Oslobiennalen opens, Ai Weiwei sues Danish car company, Saskia Neuman becomes director of Market Art Fair, and other news from the Nordic art field.
Ways of Seeing is theatre with a political agenda, raising awareness by looking at a protected and privileged world from a position on its margins.
Nordic galleries initiate a new art fair in Basel, Pussy Riot members are granted asylum in Sweden, Bergen Assembly takes a stand against far-right ideology, and other news from the Nordic art field.
An open letter on cultural politics in Denmark, an honorary award from Oslo Open Art Festival, a record-breaking Hilma af Klint show, and other news from the Nordic art field.
The Danish Ministry of Culture introduces a new strategy to handle sexual harassment within art education, and other news from the Nordic art field.
Supermarket opens in Stockholm, a new residency programme gets under way in Denmark, and plans revealed for the inaugural exhibition at the new National Museum in Oslo.
Norwegian artists mobilise, the first comprehensive Greta Knutson-Tzara exhibition, and new initiatives in Copenhagen: a kunsthalle and yet another commercial art fair.
Debates on cultural politics in Denmark and Sweden, a five-year programme of art in public space in Oslo, and three Nordic artists represented in the Venice Biennial main exhibition.
Visual art events on International Women’s Day, nominees for the Norwegian Art Critics’ Prize announced, and a new masters program in curating and art criticism.
Two Nordic biennials reach their tenth editions, Louisiana has troubles with a Swiss sponsor, and there is “a real crisis” with regard to acquisitions in Norwegian museums.
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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