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.
War is the artist’s muse in Vanessa Baird’s retrospective at Munch Museum in Oslo.
Katalin Ladik’s first major presentation in the Nordics underscores the transformative power of the voice.
Palestinian artist and film director Kamal Aljafari visits Oslo for the opening of his retrospective at Kunstnernes Hus.
Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art was already a respected institution. The reopening in a new building leaves no doubt that it is one of Europe’s top museums.
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