30.04.13
Saturday 13 April saw long queues from 20:00 until after midnight for the opening of the new bar and foyer at Kunstnernes Hus (The Artists’ House) in Oslo.
16.04.13
The festival was a success in terms of its execution, but a stricter and more consistent curatorial approach would have been preferable, says an assessment of the Copenhagen Art Festival.
05.04.13
Oslo's Academy of Fine Arts is commissioner of the Central Asian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, with curators from Kazakhstan and Portugal and Dutch and US financing.
05.04.13
Curators announce the 2013 Lofoten International Art Festival; a February screening of Picasso in Palestine, introduced by Charles Esche, sets the tone for this autumn’s LIAF.
04.03.13
Since the publication of Joel Tunström’s “What’s Happened to Iaspis?”, the direction in which Iaspis has been steered for the last several years has been subject to debate in the Swedish art world.
14.12.12
The fierce public debate over a possible Guggenheim Helsinki initiated Checkpoint Helsinki, an artist-drafted proposal for a new institution now making its first open call for pilot productions.
Malmö Nordic is problematic, not because it is Nordic, but because it is an art festival.
10.05.13
Why Oslo has been the most vital, interesting art scene in Scandinavia for the last ten years – and the story of a generation that works with plaster, Google and actions.
“Wikipedia art” erodes the imagination. New knowledge must be created or emerge; otherwise the thing being created has no real legitimacy, says Goodiepal.
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26.04.13
The exhibitions Hold stenhårdt fast på greia di at Kunsthall Oslo, and Possessions at UKS, show that the women’s struggle and the queer struggle are parts of the same politico-historical project.
23.04.13
Jan S. Hansen’s exhibition at IMO in Copenhagen brings together two current trends that focus on materials and surfaces. The show mostly amounts to an example of a trend skilfully embodied.
18.04.13
Before her retrospective at Kiasma, Eija-Liisa Ahtila discusses how her work is transformed in relation to different forms of exhibition and distribution.
04.02.13
African modernity must be considered on the basis of a comparative perspective in which European political modes of though are adapted to an African context, says Salah M. Hassan.
22.04.13
This winter’s commotion over OCA and KORO is a symptom that the art field is the class pushover – the kid who puts up with being ignored and bulldozed.
18.03.13
Lea Porsager’s Thought Form project re-establishes repressed links between the esoteric and modern concepts of art. The results are more captivating as an exploration than as a work of art.
04.03.13
Iaspis went from being an independent and critical voice in a public conversation, to being a careful and loyal team player for the authorities.
12.02.13
The Anthropocene Project conference in Berlin marked the beginning of an ambitious research project aimed at creating a new cosmology in light of our new man-made geological epoch.
01.02.13
As analogue film disappears from the commercial world, Rosa Barba argues that it is finally free to exist as its own form in an interview about the intersection of image, materiality, and time.
21.12.12
Why the unlikely trio of Gabriel Kuri, Knut Henrik Henriksen and Richard Tuttle succeed in making a convincing case for the autonomy of art, even in site-specific interventions in Bergen.
21.12.12
A vision of diversity is not enough. KORO must continue to strive to achieve cultural diversity.
19.12.12
- Nothing could ever be «poetic», and poetry is not an empty container that you could fill with meaning, says Karl Larsson, whose new book is released along with an exhibition at Galleri Signal in Malmö.
REVIEWED EXHIBITIONS
København
Jan S. Hansen
IMO Projects (16.03. – 27.04.)
Reviewed by Maria Kjær Themsen
Lea Porsager
Fotografisk Center (26.01. – 01.04.)
Reviewed by Cecilie Høgsbro Østergaard
Oslo
Hold stenhårdt fast på greia di – Norsk kunst og kvinnekamp 1968-89 / Possessions
Kunsthall Oslo, Unge Kunstneres Samfund (08.03. – 21.04.)
Reviewed by Line Ulekleiv