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.
Tris Vonna-Michell spools through his late father’s enormous body of material with a gaze that develops the accumulation rather than the human.
Taryn Simon has filled Cisternerne with the beautiful voices of twenty professional lamenters, but the magnificent sadness does not really hit home.
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.
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.
Rosemarie Trockel’s monumental exhibition in Frankfurt is an overwhelming encounter with the intensely idiosyncratic abundance from which her art is composed.
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.
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.
Kunstkritikk’s Nanna Friis found one of the year’s highlights between a yes and a no.
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.
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.
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.
Hannah Ryggen remains the most compelling part of the Hannah Ryggen Triennial.
Carola Grahn brings a pitch-perfect wit to Sámi feminism at Liljevalchs in Stockholm.
Copenhagen is currently home to several semi-aquatic reptiles. They speak volumes about attitudes and mummification. And of what an exhibition may be.
Matias Faldbakken will create memorial to the 2011 terror attack in Oslo.
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