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3 December

A triennial resembling The Blob and the fear of meeting another person’s gaze ever again: 2025 has left its mark on Tommy Olsson.

She’s Still Here

Hannah Ryggen remains the most compelling part of the Hannah Ryggen Triennial.

She’s there, you see, and when you sleep she’s awake

Marte Gunnufsen’s exhibition at Noplace lulls you into a deceptive feeling of security.

Under Prevailing Conditions

In the empty parallel world we know as Tjuvholmen, Ida Ekblad’s paintings shout out in a polyphonic chorus: ‘Steal me and take me home!’

When Contemporary Art Reaches the Age of Majority

In the 2010s, Norwegian cultural politics began the deliberate disassembly of a functioning system under the pretence of having something to replace it with.

A New Review by Tommy Olsson

Once the last page has been read it is difficult to shake the feeling that Bjarne Melgaard’s novel is actually a piece of quite good late modernist prose.

Music can be many things, right?

With such wide-ranging ambitions I Wish This Was A Song at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo almost had to become a very varied affair. Which is fine when you deliver – as this exhibition does.

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All articles by Tommy Olsson

3 December

She’s Still Here

She’s there, you see, and when you sleep she’s awake

Under Prevailing Conditions

When Contemporary Art Reaches the Age of Majority

A New Review by Tommy Olsson

Music can be many things, right?

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4 December

3 December

Spiritual Disarmament

2 December

Kunstkritikk’s Advent Calendar Through the Years

Licking Salt

Consolation Prize

Nonchalant XXXL

Downscaled Power Station

How to Lose a Theorist in Ten Days

Un-Weaving Memories

ʻWe are building a narrative from fragmentsʼ

Career Confinement

Our Phone Is a Sex Toy

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