“ARS22 – Living Encounters” Kiasma / Helsinki
Art-world professionals are busy biennial-hopping once again. There’s the big one in Venice, the new edition of Manifesta in Pristina,…
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Keren Cytter "Bad Words" Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst / Aachen
Ooh, we know some bad words, don’t we? We don’t get to know exactly which bad words the artist is…
“The Ocean” Bergen Kunsthall
Has the pandemic helped us to understand that we share this world? The air, the aerosols, the bacteria, the viruses?…
Michael Stevenson "Disproof Does Not Equal Disbelief" KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin
Upon reading the title, I was sure the exhibition would reflect on contemporary conspiracy narratives. But it dives much deeper…
Pedro Cabrita Reis and Cerith Wyn Evans Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
When the relevance of art for the functioning of society is under scrutiny, every show that can actually open is…
Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir “WERK - Labor Move” Reykjavík Art Museum / Hafnarhús
It’s a fairly straightforward affair: in Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir’s exhibition at the Reykjavik Art Museum, we see a three-channel video…
“Various Others,” Munich’s Gallery-Share Initiative
A pole, jutting horizontally out of a wall, inscribed with the word HIT, is recognizably the handle of a shopping…
Isa Melsheimer “Der unerfreuliche Zustand der Textur” KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art / Berlin
This solo exhibition by Isa Melsheimer is also KINDL’s first show under new artistic director Kathrin Becker, who joined the…
Jenna Sutela “NO NO NSE NSE” Kunsthall Trondheim / Norway
It’s no small feat that the recently appointed director of the Kunsthall Trondheim, Stefanie Hessler, lured one of the most…
Keren Cytter Galerie Nagel Draxler / Cologne
After an unsuccessful attempt at seducing her neighbor, a young woman, who is the main protagonist in Keren Cytter’s new…
Oslo Biennial 2019
The Venice Biennale opened in the same week as the first edition of the OsloBiennalen. But while the former will…
The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100 GARAGE Museum of Contemporary Art / Moscow
Is it the elephant in the room or a non-issue that the Garage Museum is funded by fossil-fuel, given that…
Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArts Kestnergesellschaft / Hannover
“A community for all the arts … a cultural center for the new age.” This sounds like another Bauhaus centennial…
MOMENTUM10 10th Nordic Biennial of Contemporay Art / Norway
The tenth installment of this Scandinavian biennial, held in the small paper-milling town of Moss, Norway, can certainly be seen…
Global National Haus am Lützowplatz / Berlin
Some things are over in no time at all, and some things linger, even if one would like them to…
Decolonizing Appearance CAMP Center for Art on Migration Politics / Copenhagen
The term “immersion” was probably the most overused word in the art world last year, often connected to concepts of…