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.
‘For Indigenous people it can be a little scary to think about erasure and removal when talking about monuments’, says collective New Red Order.
In Malmö, Kiki Smith delivers a profound case for art as a form of ecological and existential inquiry.
The 13th edition of the Momentum Biennial in Moss is a rarity: a large-scale presentation of sound art.
Subversion and humour are back in the 13th Berlin Biennale, but the show is best where it’s most serious.
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