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Kristian Vistrup Madsen

Kristian Vistrup Madsen is a Danish writer based in Berlin. He graduated from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2016, and writes art journalism for various publications such as Artforum, Studio International, and Leap. His writing on political philosophy, post-colonialism, and the prison industrial complex has been published in academic journals in the United States and Scandinavia.

Reviews• October 9, 2020

Ambera Wellmann’s Big Swing

By Kristian Vistrup Madsen

There’s been much talk of Ambera Wellmann’s show Logic of Ghosts at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, but not much talk of her paintings. For in filling…

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Features, Reviews• May 8, 2019

One Hundred Years of Ambivalence: The Many Legacies of the Bauhaus

By Kristian Vistrup Madsen

It’s been a hundred years of bent chrome furniture, and Germany is taking stock. On the centennial of the Bauhaus art school, new permanent…

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Reviews• November 2, 2018

Archeology and Ambivalence at Austria’s Steirischer Herbst Festival

By Kristian Vistrup Madsen

One morning in Graz, a woman carries a large portrait of Adolf Hitler on a bus through the center of the city. It’s an…

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Reviews• July 6, 2018

Courting Exhaustion: Manifesta’s Dog Days

By Kristian Vistrup Madsen

On the second day of Manifesta I’m flat on a bench amidst the splendor of Palermo’s Botanical Garden, head resting on my biennial tote…

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Features• November 28, 2017

Against Tidy Memory: Anti-Fascist Memorials and the Horror of Kitsch

By Kristian Vistrup Madsen

Like a catchy Schlager tune, rightwing populism in Germany has matured into a countrywide plague. Historical guilt, which had until recently stalled the nationalism…

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Features, Reviews• July 7, 2017

“Made in Germany”: Can the Artworld Have a Nation?

By Kristian Vistrup Madsen

Like exotic flowers, international art exhibitions bloom in Berlin, Kassel, and Münster every two, five, or ten years, helping to establish Germany, alongside Venice,…

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Reviews• May 2, 2017

Modernist Frederick Kiesler is “Rediscovered” Between Abstraction and Compromise

By Kristian Vistrup Madsen

In 1990, Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz was a wasteland. German partition had sent the square back in time, making space for “The City of the…

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