In the 2010s, artists abandoned the present in favour of the past, the future, and other, larger temporalities. Art is no longer contemporary, but extemporary.
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.
Magnus Karlsson Gallery gives a rare and extended glance at Bruno Knutman’s particular form of radical play in a show focused exclusively on his drawings.
Santiago Mostyn’s exhibition at Andréhn-Schiptjenko in Stockholm is a hypnotic spatial montage which reveals the contours of an emergent Black subjectivity.
In highly ornamented pieces that seduce the eye, Ebony G. Patterson touches deep colonial wounds and stresses the need to discuss them – without ending up in a muddle.
Partner of ex-minister used all available channels to throw suspicion on the play Ways of Seeing, according to Oslo District Court. Director Pia Maria Roll is relieved over the verdict passed on Friday.
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