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.
Sergey Bratkov’s exhibition at Kohta in Helsinki is a sophisticated slap in the face.
Det Kosmiske Hierarki takes Freetown Christiania’s local currency outside the commune. The result is also a song of freedom.
Eddie Figge and Agnieszka Polska reach stratospheric heights in the basement of the Workers’ Education Association in Stockholm.
This autumn, Tone Hansen will take over as director of the Munch Museum, which is currently facing pressure both internally and externally.
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