Interview
16.05.12

Ten Questions: Jonatan Habib Engqvist

The Reykjavík Art Festival opens this Friday, and the festival includes the large scale exhibition (I)ndependent People which presents a selection of collaborative projects.
Review
07.05.12

Back to Square One

The seventh Berlin Biennale’s political and aesthetic failures are due to the curators’ indifference to the exhibition’s form and possibilities.
Comment
23.04.12

The Dream about an International Kunsthal

Following ten months of an emerging Kunsthal Charlottenborg, recent events lead one to consider whether a serious desire to establish an international art venue in Copenhagen ever actually existed.
Interview
23.04.12

The Avant-Garde as Network

– In a Nordic context it is actually only when you recognize the transnational networks that you discover the avant-garde, says Tania Ørum.
Comment
28.02.12

Critical Collapse at Tensta Konsthall

Maria Lind brushes aside criticism of her collaboration with the Lundin-owned Bukowskis for Abstract Possible. “The project is not about taking a position,” Lind stated during Thursday’s debate at Tensta Konsthall.
By Frans Josef Petersson
Exhibitions
28.02.12

The Ever Ephemeral Archive

Julie Ault’s exhibition at Signal i Malmö explores and challenges the archive as form while also, perhaps, offering a defense for research art as a project.
By Pernille Albrethsen
VIDEO
REVIEWED EXHIBITIONS
Berlin
7. Berlin Biennale
(til 1. July)
Reviewed by Kim West
Review
05.03.12

Aestheticized History of Sexual Politics

Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia? is an exciting "telephone catalog" but does not fulfill its ambition of becoming a serious research contribution.
By Ingvild Krogvig
Review
27.01.12

Free flight over the labyrinth

The Ole Jørgen Ness exhibition at Galleri Riis carries a palpably physical and organic presence. The result is a painterly condition at the very edge of the precipice.
By Line Ulekleiv
Review
23.01.12

Fragments of an oeuvre

Chaos still reigns when Dortmund Bodega reopens in a new space with the exhibition Simen Dyrhaug 1979-2008 Collected works. This time around the artist is also cultivated as a figure.
By Geir Haraldseth
Exhibitions
20.01.12

A story from the ‘90s

Mette Winckelmann’s exhibition at Den Frie is about bodily and artistic emancipation, but misses out on its opportunity to contribute to the current queer-debate.
By Maria Kjær Themsen
Interview
13.01.12

Ten Questions: Tris Vonna-Michell

Kunstkritikk caught a brief moment with a busy Tris Vonna-Michell, who will be staging one of his speed-talking performance works in Roskilde tonight.
By Pernille Albrethsen
Review
21.12.11

Modernism 2.0

The exhibition Slow at Helsinki Kunsthalle is about form, material and craft. What does this have to do with slowness?
By Max Ryynänen
Comment
09.12.11

Challenging the Finns

In April 2011 the election success of the populist party True Finns shook Finland and unleashed unprecedented public debate about immigration. Has contemporary art responded?
By Taru Elfving
Review
21.11.11

That which remains

The romantic search after the sublime in death is still present in art and the exhibition Summer Moved On at Kurant demonstrates that the theme is far from exhausted
By Joakim Borda