The key issue in Nicolas Bourriaud’s new book is the way exclusion affects visual thought. Kunstkritikk met him in Copenhagen for a talk about art and politics.
– The airport is the purgatory of our times, says Ed Atkins, whose new film installation at Statens Museum for Kunst teeters somewhere between Pina Bausch and Leslie Nielsen.
While more and more artists explicitly enjoy making artworks that cannot be nailed down by a political program, art writers take even more pride in pinning it down.
Keren Cytter makes films and reflects a lot on herself – like everyone else today. Perhaps that is why she is so exciting.
– With the rejection of Manet’s Déjeuner sur l’herbe from the Salon the painting fell into a limbo of sorts. It was art denied in its art quality. That is what non-art is, says Thierry de Duve.
Status update on Sorø Kunstmuseum’s exhibition trilogy about the new materialism and realism that spark debate right now. But just how ‘new’ is all this, really?
Philippe Parreno’s retrospective solo exhibition at Palais de Tokyo in Paris is neither a retrospective nor a solo show. The old works are new, and he did not create all of them himself.
Social Democrat Joy Mogensen becomes Denmark’s new minister of culture, curators named for Alt_CPH 2020, and other news from the Nordic art field.
In the midst of her largest retrospective to date, artist Zdenka Rusova talks about the singular question of her life and work.
This year’s Whitney Biennial focuses on autonomous personal narratives. The political aspects are embedded in the processing of material and form.
Jesper Just extends his film across the many rooms of Kunsthal Charlottenborg to tell stories about the architecture of the body, and sensory exhaustion in our present day.
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