In Every Ocean Hughes’s first major solo exhibition in the Nordic countries, the transition between life and death is not sharp but fluid.
Which exhibitions in 2021 does Valerie Kyeyune Backström wish she could return to?
Zanele Muholi’s exhibition at Bildmuseet in Umeå is a beautiful, upsetting, and humorous portrayal of Black LGBTQI+ lives.
Martha Edelheit’s The Naked Truth: Works from the 60’s & 70’s at Larsen/Warner in Stockholm overflows with an irresistible sense of sensuality and liberation.
Santiago Mostyn’s exhibition at Andréhn-Schiptjenko in Stockholm is a hypnotic spatial montage which reveals the contours of an emergent Black subjectivity.
Which were the most memorable exhibitions of 2020? Today we hear from Valerie Kyeyune Bäckström, novelist, art critic, and regular contributor to Kunstkritikk.
Faith Ringgold’s retrospective at Bildmuseet in Umeå is a moving attempt at restoring the humanity of which Black people have so often been robbed.
The encounter between Bella Rune’s thin, almost transparent threads and Carl Eldh’s heavy realist sculptures is remarkably beautiful and moving.
In Éva Mag’s largest exhibition to date, heaps of salvaged objects outline the surplus populations produced by the network of global capital.
The Physical World Was Still There at Konsthall C is a gripping account of the human desire to escape reality. It has tenderness, grief, pain and lyricism.
Is Berlin losing its position as a haven for artists due to German repression of pro-Palestinian voices? Six Nordic artists and curators respond.
See which painters were at the top of their game in 2024, according to Copenhagen-based artist David Risley.
Kunstkritkk’s Nora Arrhenius Hagdahl on this year’s wildest shows in Stockholm.
The sound of a slide projector became a heartbeat in one of the exhibitions that inspired artist A K Dolven this year.
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