Austria's representative at this year's Venice Biennale is the artist Anna Jermolaewa. She was born in the Soviet Union in 1970 but fled the country at the age of nineteen and settled in Austria. She was one of the founding members of an opposition party in the Soviet Union and one of the editors of a newspaper that was highly critical of the authorities. Jermolaewa and her colleagues were thus involved in a criminal case where they were accused of inciting opposition to the authorities and of spreading propaganda and that is why she decided to escape the country.

Submissions for nomination proposals are now open for the Icelandic Visual Art Prize, set to be awarded for the eighth time in 2025. 

In recent years, there has been significant progress in terms of diversity and accessibility within the art world, which has historically been rather homogenous. Western exhibition spaces have traditionally been dominated by works from cisgender, heterosexual, non-disabled white men. However, this mindset has been shifting and improving over the past few decades, thanks to individuals and projects dedicated to promoting inclusion within the art world.

In October 2025, the Sequences art festival will take place for the twelfth time. The curator of the festival is Daría Sól Andrews.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the joint Nordic embassy complex in Berlin, the exhibition Summation reflects upon Queen Margrethe II of Denmark’s words “Each autonomous, and yet together”, formulated in 1999 as the guiding principle for the embassies’ unique collaboration in their new united premises.

The following article reflects the author’s experience visiting the exhibition Thresholds on the island La Certosa in the Venetian Lagoon. The exhibition is part of this year’s German Pavilion curated by Çağla Ilk, on view until the 24th of November. Some incidents and encounters are fictitious.

The Greek-Icelandic art festival Head2Head will take place across various locations in Reykjavík

Artist Andreas Brunner has been selected from a group of applicants for a residency at the guest studio Künstlerhaus Bethanien in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, Germany. For the past five years, Icelandic visual artists and visual artists with a strong connection to the Icelandic art scene have been able to apply to stay in the studio.