Texts
Interviews, Intervju, Märit Aronsson-Towler 26.01.2024
Nora Krug had her international breakthrough with Heimat – a German Family Album, where she confronts her own family’s background during the Nazi regime. Her latest book Diaries of War, gives insight into the everyday experiences of a Russian artist and a Ukrainian journalist during the first year of the war in Ukraine.
The recently opened PASS Center for Practice-based Art Studies at the University of Copenhagen is all about forging stronger reciprocal links between academia and the field of artistic practice. Rhea Dall interviews Mikkel Bogh, head of PASS.
Interviews, Märit Aronsson-Towler 31.08.2023
– The way I see it, art is a point of contact between people. For me, creating something always has to do with having an audience, says Margreth Olin in this interview about her film «Fedrelandet» («Songs of Earth»).
Research is an important starting point for much of the ecology-oriented work in the contemporary art field. But what happens when scientific data encounters the inherent freedom of art?
Joen Vedel believes that the debate about artistic research is rather boring and unproductive. Together with Nabil Ahmed at KiT, they call for the creation of new fantasies, motivated by the fact that there is no other solution.
Has artistic research in academia resulted in a distinction between the criteria for art in traditional arenas, such as galleries and museums, and that in art education? If so, what are the consequences for the development of the art field?
Opinion, Thea Barslund 10.10.2022
Shrink is without doubt the exhibition’s attention-grabber, and rightfully so. It is delicate, imposing, physical, alienating, and intimate, all at the same time.
Reviews, Eline Bjerkan 26.09.2022
Both the exhibitions of Winterling and Metahaven seem somewhat infatuated with the research on which they are based.
Reviews, Heidi-Anett Haugen 30.06.2022
I wonder how she transfers her motifs to the canvas. How she knows where to cut each hole. I don’t understand how it’s possible to do this by hand, but I’m equally fascinated by the way mere holes of different sizes can add up to a picture.
Reviews, Eline Bjerkan 13.06.2022
«Meta.Morf 2022: Ecophilia» is best when it advocates a rigorous, unsentimental approach to the ecology theme.
Reviews, Joen Vedel 03.05.2022
The exhibition is at its strongest at the point where the thread begins to fray and to expose the monument’s attempt to round things off, the point at which the viewer is invited to join an unresolved debate, a movement, to entertain doubt; to enter a conflicted space that acknowledges itself as already and always an arena of violence.
Reviews, Eline Bjerkan 02.05.2022
Trondhjems kunstforening has been sealed by Den norske idealstaten (The Norwegian Ideal State). Could an ideal ever be anything other than a simplification?
Reviews, Peik Elias Greaker 08.04.2022
Hege Lønne’s retrospective is a show of great diversity, which, despite an appearance of restraint, is full of vitality.
Reviews, Peik Elias Greaker 07.03.2022
At first glance, the exhibition «Exotic Dreams and Poetic Misunderstandings – Still Life» by Lin Wang has the appearance of a mouth-watering banquet, but the more I have of it, the worse the aftertaste it leaves in the mouth.
Interviews, Intervju, Märit Aronsson-Towler 01.03.2022
I’ve implemented the traditional visuals of the Chinese landscape in my works, in a simplified and exaggerated manner.
Opinion, Polare randsoner, Text Series, Eline Bjerkan 04.02.2022
Perhaps it is their faith in the moral rectitude of art that lets artists feel their consciences are clear, unlike other tourists who visit Svalbard for inspiration.
Interviews, Märit Aronsson-Towler 21.01.2022
Choosing a material involves a lot of language and expressivity.
Opinion, Susanne Christensen 15.12.2021
The corona crisis, Oslo’s penchant for pompous, iconic buildings, and the uneven distribution of resources between the capital and the rest of Norway may all have helped to pull new patrons and private money into Trøndelag’s cultural sphere.
Opinion, Stedsfornemmelser, Text Series, Eline Bjerkan 25.05.2020
Most of Trondheim’s numerous public artworks are physical objects that need looking after. There are therefore high hopes attached to the art plan for Nyhavna, which might just mark a shift in the kind of art we encounter in public space. For the time being, however, the plan is on indefinite hold.
Opinion, Stedsfornemmelser, Text Series, Anki Gerhardsen 05.12.2019
With the slogan “Make the North Great Again”, the art project Nordting has notched up a total of forty-nine public assemblies. In 2017, they stood as a candidate in the parliamentary elections.
Stedsfornemmelser, Text Series, Marte Huke 25.11.2019
In this poem, author Marte Huke reflects on Nyhavna’s past, present and possible future.
