Tommy Olsson (f. 1963) er kunstkritiker og forfatter, bosatt i Trondheim. Olsson skriver fast for Klassekampen.
It Will Always Be the Devil Staring Back From the Other Side of the Lens
Maria Pasenau is raw, in every sense of the word.
Tommy Olsson
All articles by Tommy Olsson
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.
