Mariann Enge er ansvarlig redaktør for Kunstkritikk.
Mariann Enge is editor-in-chief of Kunstkritikk.
– Creating spaces for exchange outside of normal structures is incredibly important, says Nicholas Jones, director of Praksis. The residency programme has become an important part of Oslo’s art scene.
Kunstkritikk’s stay in Nuuk turned out to be a transformative crash course in Greenland’s situation, history and culture.
Ai Weiwei withdraws from two exhibitions in Denmark out of protest against the new Danish asylum seeker laws. ARoS regrets his decision – Faurschou Foundation gives him their full support.
Excellent co-operation between artists’ associations and united support from the centrist parties and the opposition proved decisive in winning Norwegian artists a 10% pay rise, says NBK chairwoman Hilde Tørdal.
– CIMAM needs a board of directors that actively opposes censorship, says the director of Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Tone Hansen. Three of the forum’s board members have resigned in protest against the president Bartomeu Marí.
– Ambient sound recordings are a powerful way to archive a space, says poet Jordan Scott, who presents recordings from Guantánamo Bay at the Oslo International Poetry Festival tonight.
– Maybe it is like thinking about the fate of people that have no hope and no place to look to, Golden Lion winner El Anatsui says about his use of bottle caps in art.
The Astrup Fearnley Museum claims that it does not have the budget to pay the artists contributing to the show Europe, Europe. However, the Arts Council Norway has granted funds earmarked for artist’s fees.
“Future Library invites an imaginary leap,” says Katie Paterson, who has launched an art project in Oslo that she will never see completed.
The Russian artists’ collective Chto Delat has announced that they withdraw from this year’s Manifesta in St. Petersburg even though they are generally against boycotts.
“It is incredible that not a single athlete has withdrawn from the Olympic Games. I suppose most of them have so many sponsorships coming out their arse that they have little inclination to say anything.” Bjarne Melgaard protesting against Russian anti-gay policies.
The director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Charles Esche, is now seeking support in the fight against local politicians so that the museum’s artistic profile can continue.
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.
Sex and death in Helsinki, meditative landscape painting in Oslo, and a glimpse of art’s future in Copenhagen. Artist Ernst Billgren gives us his top-three list.
A small gnome hiding inside a fountain pump sent Kunstkritikk’s Norwegian editor, Stian Gabrielsen, into a nostalgic fit.
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