Forget Rilke
At Mint in Stockholm, an international group show offers a mind-expanding mix of erotics and poetry.
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.
Sianne Ngai explains why art needs to embrace error in a world that is wrong.
Returning to her childhood home town, Fatima Moallim’s exhibition at Växjö Konsthall invites us to reflect on today’s appetite for identity and difference.
In Lytle Shaw’s New Grounds for Dutch Landscape the materialist turn is transformed into an art historical account of everyday ongoingness and the ground beneath our feet.
The exhibition Worst-Case Scenario: Four Artists From Greenland at Lund’s Konsthall puts notions of authenticity and identity under ironic and questioning stress.
Will Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America be as formative as Documenta 11 was at the start of the millennium? A report from a panel debate in New York.
At Malmö Konsthall, Ceija Stojka renders the horrors of the Roma Holocaust, the Porajmos, in which as much as half of Europe’s Roma population was killed.
The Norwegian artist Hanni Kamaly talks about mourning and remembrance, the physicality and presence of sculpture, and the Nordic art world’s reluctance to acknowledge the legacy of colonialism.
Suddenly, you know someone in Oslo who has started a new centre for contemporary art in Lusaka.
‘There is no doubt that she painted some of the works included in the Temple series’, says Daniel Birnbaum, editor of a new book about Swedish artist Anna Cassel.
The Iron Throne is vacant. Hardly any Norwegian artists have solo shows at the major museums, and everyone worries about sustainability.
This year’s first opening night in Copenhagen whetted our appetite for more. The season’s dictates are British 90s art, French 80s sculpture, and Georgian folk painting. Oh, and Arken is rebranding.