BY Jan Verwoert in Reviews | 04 MAR 05
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UKS Biennial

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BY Jan Verwoert in Reviews | 04 MAR 05

The fourth and latest instalment of the UKS Biennial, organized by the Unge Kunstneres Samfund (Young Artists’ Association) in Oslo, presented the works of 12 Norwegian artists. Such a limited-focus, on art from just one country, may seem questionable if you assume that, by definition, a biennial has to be

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JAN VERWOERT

Jan Verwoert is a writer and contributing editor of frieze. He is based in Oslo, Norway. Cookie! (2014), a selection of his writings, is published by Sternberg Press.

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