When the ideas about art’s autonomy and the death of the author have been consigned to the landfill, all that remains is the naked sender.
An ASMR-rattle for stressed-out cultural workers was among author and Kunstkritikk-contributor Susanne Christensen’s most memorable art experiences this year.
Pussy Riot delivers a frantic and riveting exhibition at Louisiana, but it runs the risks of becoming a short-term fix.
Oscar Tuazon’s exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall will keep even top students at Water School busy for months.
The invasion of Ukraine began during this year’s Barents Spektakel. In one fell swoop, much of the festival’s programme took on a very different significance than planned.
Kunstkritikk’s Advent Calendar presents author and regular contributor to Kunstkritikk Susanne Christensen’s top three art events of 2019.
‘Climate emergency is about much more than global warming or melting ice’, says art historian T. J. Demos, who recently gave a lecture in Bergen.
In the Nordic Pavilion in Venice, insects, green growths in glass containers, and clusters of seaweed all thrive. Whether it is inhabitable to us humans is less certain.
Geopolitics looms over everything in Denmark. But not on the art scene, which is serving up glam-rock, food happenings, and solo shows featuring international heavyweights.
The Swedish spring is marked by aesthetic confidence and structural uncertainty.
This spring the Norwegian art scene is bursting with sci-fi, political vision, and largest-ever presentations of female artists.
Greenland’s art scene has arrived. Shamans assist the curators, and the world’s first-ever national gallery devoted to the art of an Indigenous People is taking shape in Nuuk.
