All articles by Simen Joachim Helsvig

Materials Seeking Form

Ragna Bley’s Zooid at Munchmuseet on the Move – Kunsthall Oslo dresses in the conceptual garb of science, but her paintings also reveal a kinship with ethereal New Age colour schemes.

Kunsthalle Trandum

By supplying art to the Police Immigration Detention Centre Trandum, KORO makes itself the extended arm of the government – not only as an organisation, but ideologically as well.

Chronicler of Babble

Hold Everything Dear at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter and Dagbøkene januar 2014–februar 2016 demonstrate Lotte Konow Lund’s keen sense of how the spirit of an age is embedded in language.

Uneasy Laughter

Pop icons rising from the grave and homages to dictators – Adel Abidin shows comedic flair at Fotogalleriet and Oslo S, but his satire is not always spot on.

Sweetest Taboo

– People in the art world take their categories very seriously, and we don’t. Lauren Boyle speaks for DIS, curators of the 2016 Berlin Biennale. June 4 is the official opening.

Life as Data

The exhibition Nervous Systems at Haus der Kulturen der Welt paints an exhausting picture of the world as a bio-technological network you can never log off from.

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A Slipping Surfer

Esben Weile Kjær may be a rising star, but his Solar System in Aalborg consists of rat-infested ruins, mutations, and epoxy diamonds. Is it for real or simply fake?