The Thinking Woman’s Shaman
Katalin Ladik’s first major presentation in the Nordics underscores the transformative power of the voice.
Katalin Ladik’s first major presentation in the Nordics underscores the transformative power of the voice.
Paul McCarthy meets Scandinavian collectivism in Josefin Arnell’s films at Index in Stockholm.
From instagram fame to art world success. Norwegian Trude Viken’s show at Belenius in Stockholm returns us to a realm of childhood attachments.
David Garneau wants to write about Indigenous art with critical care.
Tarik Kiswanson’s gravity-defying sculptures imbue the brutalist interior of Bonniers Konsthall with tension – and a non-identitarian politics.
Revisiting the strategic essentialisms of the 1990s, Salad Hilowle’s complacent debut at Cecilia Hillström hints at the bankruptcy of Sweden’s cultural economy.
In their first major presentation in Sweden, the Swiss duo Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz ask whether clubbing can inspire a progressive political movement.
At Mint in Stockholm, an international group show offers a mind-expanding mix of erotics and poetry.
How is love complicit in the creation of racial hierarchies? The Swedish author and scholar offers a valuable lesson.
Ina Blom’s new essay collection enjoins us not to affirm what makes us feel most at home, but rather to attend to our feelings of estrangement.
Lunds Konsthall presents Gülsün Karamustafa’s work as a response to government repression in Turkey.
Karl Katz Lydén’s new book falls short of its lofty aim to break the barrier between art and society.
‘For Indigenous people it can be a little scary to think about erasure and removal when talking about monuments’, says collective New Red Order.
In Malmö, Kiki Smith delivers a profound case for art as a form of ecological and existential inquiry.
The 13th edition of the Momentum Biennial in Moss is a rarity: a large-scale presentation of sound art.
Subversion and humour are back in the 13th Berlin Biennale, but the show is best where it’s most serious.