Stian Gabrielsen er norsk redaktør for Kunstkritikk. Han er utdannet ved Kunstakademiet i Oslo, hvor han også er bosatt.
Stian Gabrielsen is Kunstkritikk’s Norwegian editor. He was educated at the Art Academy in Oslo, where he also lives.
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 driving force behind the new residency programme PRAKSIS, Nicholas Jones, says that he believes artists can engage with society in a way that creates active change.
– It would have amounted to self-censorship not to integrate the social and political into my work, says German-born New York-based artist Hans Haacke to Kunstkritikk.
Vibeke Tandberg’s exhibition Infinite Signature at OSL Contemporary reaffirms the artist’s tremendous will to self-destruct, but is she truly ready to let go?
In view of the radical distribution plans, The Word’s Head project at the Oslo Pilot project space demonstrates a surprisingly conservative view of poetry.
With its rather random and arbitrary curatorial approach the exhibition Europe, Europe at Astrup Fearnley ends up saying very little about European art as such.
Instead of chastising a nation that has repressed an uncomfortable past, Fadlabi and Cuzner help present Norway as a country willing to face and renounce its racist past.
Bringing a ten-year-old to The Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo to see the large-scale Kjartan Slettemark exhibition was, rather predictably, an exhausting affair.
Carola Grahn brings a pitch-perfect wit to Sámi feminism at Liljevalchs in Stockholm.
Copenhagen is currently home to several semi-aquatic reptiles. They speak volumes about attitudes and mummification. And of what an exhibition may be.
Matias Faldbakken will create memorial to the 2011 terror attack in Oslo.
The Swedish government’s plan to create an institutional behemoth, Moderna, is ill-advised and reckless.
