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.
‘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.
Are we seeing a ketchup effect? Two years after #MeToo arrived, Denmark discusses equality and gender quotas in typically haphazard fashion, but at a new level.
X-rummet is officially part of the National Gallery of Denmark, but over the course of its existence it became an institution in its own right.
Carsten Höller looms large over the Danish art scene this autumn, alongside dreadfully thin-skinned pottery and a hospital for self-medication.
This summer’s shows include an extraterrestrial ‘breast creature’ with a built-in fountain in Vejle Fjord. And you’ll soon find a huge Congolese tree trunk in a sculpture park near you.
Twenty years after quitting the art world, Cady Noland pops up with a retrospective in Frankfurt.
Kunstkritikk relaunches with a new design and an expanded international edition – with substantial support from the New Carlsberg Foundation.
The Oslo City Department of Culture has decided to end the first instalment of the city’s biennial two years earlier than planned, due in part to financial overspending.
Our Red Sky at Gothenburg Konsthall embodies how women’s experiences of sexual and racist violence can become tools for political change.
HKW in Berlin revives Aby Warburg’s original picture atlas. For contemporary audiences it is a display both evocative and impenetrable.
Joar Nango’s festival exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall is an inspiring invitation to expand our minds and knowledge and to carry out fundamental change.
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