Pernille Albrethsen er redaktør for Kunstkritikk i Danmark. Født 1971, kritiker og redaktør. MA i Moderne kultur fra Københavns Universitet og New York University. Virker også som kunstkritiker på Weekendavisen.
Jacob Fabricius and Lars Bang Larsen will become joint directors of Art Hub Copenhagen.
After a couple of turbulent years, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts has a new rector: Lars Bent Petersen.
Minister of Culture Joy Mogensen wants to strengthen management in art education, set up boards of directors, and counteract overly academised teaching. At best, this breaks with decades of technocracy.
Despite rather uncertain prospects, these are the art events we look forward to in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
Kunstkritikk’s Danish editor looks back on a year in art that included mermaid zombies and a heartfelt glitch of a group exhibition.
The exhibition featuring Goodiepal’s collection is also a retrospective of ‘Goodiepal’ the phenomenon, which is also a school, a band, and a refugee organisation.
‘The institution should be shaped around artistic practice, not the other way around’, says Rhea Dall, new head of Overgaden in Copenhagen.
The autumn season on the Danish art scene is already well underway and looking very promising – with women, witch hunts, and an eccentric baron on the menu.
In 2021, the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale will feature social-realist drama, mythological references, and idyllic farmyard Romanticism. All courtesy of visual artist Uffe Isolotto.
Soft architecture and woven columns which bear no loads. Viewing Ragna Braase at the National Gallery of Denmark is seeing art history being written.
While Danish museums celebrate record-high visitor numbers, others want to shut down the Ministry of Culture. In a way, the two are connected. Also, institutional collaborations have become the order of the day.
Today, the three best exhibitions of the year have been selected by Pernille Albrethsen, Kunstkritikk’s Copenhagen editor.
An exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art brings together the distant worlds of art and gaming, without subsuming one to the other.
Italian duo Francesco Urbano Ragazzi will curate Lofoten International Art Festival 2022.
Eddie Figge’s paintings from the 1989 São Paulo Biennale should be shown in schools as proof that our planet has had visitors from a distant civilisation.
For twenty-five years, artist and writer Leif Holmstrand has worked with experiences of psychosis, prostitution, and transsexuality in a highly eclectic practice. Now, he has collected it all in a new book.
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