From Kinga Bartis’s quietly captivating paintings to Madeleine Andersson’s nauseating footage of human brains, this year’s participants in Bergen select their favourite recent exhibitions
If exit polls are to be believed (and the recent UK elections have sadly shown they should be) the main show of this year's 56th Venice Biennale is a flop. ‘Dreadful’, 'dire’, 'depressing’ are some of the more printable adjectives I’ve heard to describe it. ‘Venice is Bad' was the insightful email header from a supposedly serious art news source.
