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Interviews, Intervju, Märit Aronsson-Towler 11.08.2026
The urge to change the world through photography has always been present in Catherine Opie’s wide ranging works. Now, her show The Mountains Don’t Know Their Names is exhibited at PoMo. We sat down for a conversation about the blue of distance and if her images might change the way we look at mountains.
Kritikk, Reviews, Eso Malflor 07.08.2026
Olavsfest frames its program around the theme of “truth,” yet «Kunstig intelligens i katedralen» offers little into what truth means when mediated by algorithmic logic.
Interviews, Intervju, Eso Malflor 29.06.2026
Kunstakademiet i Trondheim (KiT) has undergone a series of dizzying institutional shifts, over the past decade. As two new professorship positions are opening up at KiT urgent questions arise about where the institution is placing its emphasis.
Kritikk, Reviews, Eso Malflor 03.06.2026
Sweet Spot by Harald Beharie is steeped in play, pleasure, desire, and unapologetic queerness.
Kritikk, Reviews, Eso Malflor 08.05.2026
The Trondheim Biennial 2026 is a sprawling assembly of temporary outdoor projects, performances, and a group exhibition featuring 25 artists living and working in Trøndelag.
Minikritikk, Reviews, Jesslyn Low 30.04.2026
The White Tower at Trondhjem Kunstforening provides valuable information about an environmental and humanitarian crises in Europe, but the the photographs end up taking a back seat.
Kritikk, Reviews, Eso Malflor 21.04.2026
«Future Manifestos», the central hub for Meta.Morf 2026, serves more as a warning than as an invitation.
Minikritikk, Reviews, Jesslyn Low 26.03.2026
Each visitor becomes a musician in Pearla Pigao’s interactive exhibition, Weaving Voices, which is now on display at Kunstrom Jakob, Steinkjer Kulturhus.
Minikritikk, Reviews, Jesslyn Low 26.02.2026
Geographic and emotional distance are themes explored in Sara Guldmyrs exhibition «Avstand» at Heimdal Kunstforening.
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?
