This year’s instalment of the Nuuk Nordic Culture Festival opened with a call to think outside of the national frameworks that have organised history writing in the Nordic countries.
A slow pace, collective efforts, and firm local ties facilitate LIAF 2019’s successful integration with its setting.
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.
Cultural ownership, decolonial listening, and Pablo Picasso were up for debate at Malmö Art Museum’s symposium on the mediation of public art collections.
Anne Haaning’s video montage is an elegant reminder of how an important chapter in Danish colonial history disappeared from our collective memory.
The Physical World Was Still There at Konsthall C is a gripping account of the human desire to escape reality. It has tenderness, grief, pain and lyricism.
The web of global entanglements and flows described by A beast, a god, and a line at Kunsthall Trondheim omits the exhibition’s immediate context.
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