Yael Bartana mixes fiction and reality in a deliberately manipulative way. So why does Gammel Strand do so little to qualify the audience’s experiences?
Stense Andrea Lind-Valdan looks back on a rich year in art which included psychedelic shadow puppetry and an artist’s farewell show.
Intense, delicate, and carnal, Jessie Kleemann is everywhere. Two parallel exhibitions show that her emphasis on physicality is both her work’s greatest strength and its weakest link.
Despite Kirsten Justesen’s decades of thinking outside the gender box, Kunsten in Aalborg has pigeonholed her.
Kimsooja’s ethereal refracted light drowns in the darkness of Copenhagen’s Cisternerne.
Lose yourself in Leonora Carrington’s dream vision: Arken will cradle you like a small speckled quail egg blessed by a sacred hand.
Which were the best exhibitions on Nordic soil in 2021? Artist Stense Andrea Lind-Valdan lists her favourites.
The National Gallery of Denmark sets sail in the name of decolonisation with an exhibition about Emil Nolde and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner as gentle and critical as the catalogue is problematic.
The sound of a slide projector became a heartbeat in one of the exhibitions that inspired artist A K Dolven this year.
One of best exhibitions of the year reminded us that the world ends for someone every day. Artist Asta Lynge brings us today’s advent calendar entry.
There’s nothing worse than a limp handshake. But not when it comes to curation, says Jacob Fabricius, who has just released a book on the subject.
In 2024, artist Jaakko Pallasvuo favoured cool nonchalance over political overdetermination.
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