‘It’s fact. It’s rooted. It’s standing.’
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.
Matthew Rana
All articles by Matthew Rana
An Imagination Battle
Cultural ownership, decolonial listening, and Pablo Picasso were up for debate at Malmö Art Museum’s symposium on the mediation of public art collections.
Painting In a Time of Global Warming
Merike Estna’s paintings at Moderna Museet Malmö are inviting, strange, and genuinely convinced of their own vanity.
The Limits of Friendship
Our Friend, Valerie Solanas at Signal in Malmö pays tribute to women artists who find strength in fragility, but forfeits on a broad anti-capitalist feminism.
When Everything Is Poetry, Nothing Is
At Virserum Konsthall, Ane Hjort Guttu reflects on the challenges confronting rural areas in Sweden at a time when individuals are poised to be creative and free.
Riding Out Trends
Malmö Konsthall’s summer exhibition presents the work of three female artists who have spent decades making work on the margins of the art world.
The Cult of Speed
SPEED 2 at Malmö Konsthall highlights our lack of genuine filmic communication.
Opacity at the Bottom of the Mirror
At a time when Sami artists are increasingly visible, Britta Marakatt-Labba’s unsettling of ties between biography, identity, and content feels both necessary and urgent.
A Taste for Heaven
Art historian T. J. Clark’s new book sketches a vision for a new political Left through the affective registers and subtleties of painting.
American grotesque
Molly Lowe’s garish performance at Lilith Performance Studio in Malmö on Saturday was an exercise in totalitarian aesthetics.
A Topology of Relations
French artist and musician Félicia Atkinson’s exhibition at Krets in Malmö traces a series of drifts through the troubled landscapes of the American Southwest.
Huddled Around the Fire
An exhibition by a group of young, international painters in the small city of Växjö engages with the bucolic setting of the Swedish countryside, fir tree, sauna and all.
