All articles by Nanna Friis

Jette’s Steiner School

Together with evening school students and diner staff, Sara Sjölin has created an ode to industrial kitchens and unappetising food, to teenage nonsense and Waldorf philosophy.

Archival Anatomy

Tris Vonna-Michell spools through his late father’s enormous body of material with a gaze that develops the accumulation rather than the human.

Ersatz Grief

Taryn Simon has filled Cisternerne with the beautiful voices of twenty professional lamenters, but the magnificent sadness does not really hit home.

The House Is Quiet

FOS’s exhibition at Nils Stærk in Copenhagen is full of language, but as is often the case when shows are best, the words are not really uttered.

Humansplaining

An extreme amount of things alongside an extreme amount of words make it difficult to glimpse (and apply) the creativity in Louisiana’s latest themed exhibition.

Sociology and the Heart

Rosemarie Trockel’s monumental exhibition in Frankfurt is an overwhelming encounter with the intensely idiosyncratic abundance from which her art is composed.

True Stone

Whether sculptures can be true is probably impossible to determine. Benjamin Hirte has made four monoliths: an attractive and funny invitation to contemplate the word.

Patriotism 2.0

Jeremy Deller’s exhibition in Copenhagen has a densely symbolic Britannia vibe, but his watchable videos counterbalance the giggly atmosphere with fewer jokes and greater nuance.

The Clowndom

Le Bicolore in Paris is currently awash in Danish art from the 1960s to today, but the curatorial insistence somewhat overshadows all the good stuff on display.

Camouflage

An all-female exhibition at Galleri Nils Stærk cannot hide the unforgivable fact that the gallery’s roster of 24 artists includes only two women.

Quantity Consciousness

The Light & Space movement takes centre stage in Copenhagen Contemporary’s ‘biggest exhibition to date’, but this vast sea of light drowns out the works and their ostensible magic.

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