Pernille Albrethsen, f. 1971, kritiker, forfatter og redaktør for Kunstkritikk i Danmark. Cand.mag. i Moderne kultur fra Københavns Universitet og New York University. Virker også som kunstkritiker på Weekendavisen.
Transcaucasian film poems, a science-fiction retrospective, and an exhibition woven from nerve fibres. The Danish art autumn is all aquiver.
Which memories do we preserve together, and which do we allow to fade into oblivion? It’s in that murky space that the collective coyote operates.
Klara Lidén has turned professional, keeping her body strong and her gaze fierce. Will she still get hurt if she slips off the knife-edge she’s dancing on?
Geopolitics looms over everything in Denmark. But not on the art scene, which is serving up glam-rock, food happenings, and solo shows featuring international heavyweights.
Ramshackle, utterly quiet, and cunning as a fox. Kunstkritikk’s editor in Copenhagen reveals the cosmologies she most adored in 2025.
The beloved tradition, where we list the best shows in the Nordics, returns for the fifteenth year running.
Lutz Bacher shook great works out of her sleeve with an effortlessness impossible to fake.
A new season is ready to be gobbled up as a shift in mood seems imminent on the Danish art scene.
‘For Indigenous people it can be a little scary to think about erasure and removal when talking about monuments’, says collective New Red Order.
Copenhagen is currently home to several semi-aquatic reptiles. They speak volumes about attitudes and mummification. And of what an exhibition may be.
Maja Malou Lyse will represent Denmark at the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026 – as the youngest artist ever in the Danish Pavilion.
New institutions, new names for old institutions, and new spring exhibitions on the Danish scene.
Bonniers Konsthall develops Peter Weiss’s novel The Aesthetics of Resistance into an exhibition, but its core theme – class struggle – is conspicuously absent.
Kirsten Ortwed has spent a lifetime pushing sculpture to the edge. On the Danish isle of Bornholm, her art fits in almost suspiciously well.
Bonner Kunstverein show plays with split vision.
Three exhibitions – by turns glossy, quiet, and flashy – fit Copenhagen’s event-packed month like a glove.
