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Apocalypse and hope for the future

The Vienna Alphabet exhibition showcases Keith Haring's artistry, which is strongly influenced by his violent contemporary, where the baby represents the only, shining hope.
Pinar Ciftci -

A perverted artist portrait?

The documentary The Artist & The Pervert does not tell much about Georg Friedrichs Haas' microtonal contemporary music, but all the more about his sadomasochistic relationship with his wife.
Aleksander Huser -

Media critical exhibition

Despite the fact that Media City Bergen huser Norway's largest media group, the media-critical exhibition Question Everything, which opened on 22 February, has received very little press coverage.
Ella.strilen@gmail.com -

Are you getting horny now?

What is erotic art? Yes – the art you get horny about is the answer in The Art of the Erotic.
hcmarstander@gmail.com -

The art and the sense of life

The recently deceased art theorist Mario Perniola could be so searching in his books that these are only understood when the last words are read.
Carsten Juhl -

Refugees: Art project stranded

Strong protests made Franco "Bifo" Berardi's planned performance Auschwitz on the Beach on Documenta 14 instead turned into poetry reading and panel debate.
Emma Bakkevik -

An epic friendship

A new exhibition at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin shows the complicated relationship between the thinker Walter Benjamin and the poet Bertolt Brecht.
Hans-Georg Kohler -

The feeling of being alive

To be alive is to find space for the speechless, space for loss, for the superfluous, the death, the mere being, the unproductive.
Alexander Carnera -

When art opens eyes

The experience of the dynamics of contemporary art festival – the interaction between cultural and political statements and my physical and mental movement through it – remains as the most thought provoking. 
eigenbakke@hotmail.com -

A vitamin policy peace supplement in the election campaign

In the middle of the election campaign, an exciting and highly political exhibition opened at Akershus Art Center. Through the Flag Follow the Bottle, the artist group ANNEX gives us a critical look at the country's treatment of asylum seekers, the abundance community and not least the war nation Norway.
Alexander Harang -

The art from the other side

Is it possible to build a new and completely different society than what lacks empathy? Last year we lost a unique voice in the Norwegian art landscape, which spoke to us from an alternate reality.
Lars Øyno -

Art in the cycle

Algae and potatoes become natural partners at an exhibition in the industrial city of Skien.
Nina Ossavy -

Artificial fertilized art

Kva grew up desirous of Norway's largest industrial adventure, asks artists who exhibit in Grenland in May.
Mette Karlsvik -

Idleness is the root of all art

The primal power can be found in amateur orchestras, rhymesmiths and trivial glossy pictures, Asger Jorn believed. A colorful explosive is finally available in Norwegian.
knut.stene-johansen@ilos.uio.no -

"Republican is the new cool"

In a stunt just before the US election, a right-wing populist writer staged himself as a punk and performance artist. This hijacking also got artists and hipsters to vote for Donald Trump.
Julian Blaue -

Dada is dead, live Dada! 

Dada is 100 years. The small movement that created new meaning by tearing most of it into pieces has ideological and artistic successors everywhere – just looking around.
bjorn.engh@stfk.no -
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