Stian Gabrielsen er norsk redaktør for Kunstkritikk. Han er utdannet ved Kunstakademiet i Oslo, hvor han også er bosatt.
The introductory days of Bergen Assembly served as a reminder that art’s engagement with social issues does not necessarily translate into audience engagement.
Tiril Hasselknippe’s brew of blissful neo-materialism and banal video game aesthetics is just the right amount of a good thing, i.e. too much.
Sun and Spring in January is so overtly instrumental in its approach to art that it’s almost cute. It’s certainly comical.
– Being a little tired is conducive to sensing your surroundings, says Apichaya Wanthiang. Her exhibition at UKS (Young Artists’ Society) is open only at night.
Jumana Manna has a journalist’s feel for the effects of intimacy. Sweat pours from her sculptures and films at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter.
Let the River Flow at Office for Contemporary Art Norway culminates three years of research into Sami art. It is a skillfull display, yet haunted by decolonial paradox.
Inspired by science fiction, this year’s instalment of the Lofoten International Art Festival enters into a sensuous pact with the future.
British curator Charles Esche has delved into Norwegian archives. Here he discovered a Nordic body that is both idealised and distorted.
The opening exhibition at Kunsthall Trondheim, this is a political (painting), advances a somewhat cautious take on body politics.
Bergen Assembly 2016 dissolves the triennial genre, but nevertheless keeps its audience in mind.
In the exhibition VERTICALSEAT at Kunsthalle Basel, Yngve Holen is haunted by the humanist subject he has driven out.
I am in no way poking fun of painting, says Fredrik Værslev. Today his exhibition All Around Amateur opens at Bergen Kunsthall.
The first edition of the Oslobiennalen opens, Ai Weiwei sues Danish car company, Saskia Neuman becomes director of Market Art Fair, and other news from the Nordic art field.
Ways of Seeing is theatre with a political agenda, raising awareness by looking at a protected and privileged world from a position on its margins.
In her beautiful sci-fi noir installation at the Danish Pavilion in Venice, Larissa Sansour asks what the memory of national identity means once a tsunami has washed away everything.
New directors at Malmö Art Museum and Art Hub Copenhagen, artist lists from the biennials in Gothenburg and Lofoten, and other news from the Nordic art field.
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