"Utstillingen alle snakker om"

Etter en av de mest omfattende internasjonale pressedekningene på en enkeltutstilling i Norge, ble Astrup Fearnley Museets utstilling Lutz Bacher: Burning the Days nylig trukket frem av det prestisjetunge kunstmagasinet Frieze som en av ti utstillinger "alle snakker om" nå:

"Mapping five decades of her radical practice, the show eschews a linear path, unfolding instead through ‘associative encounters’ – a curatorial structure that mirrors Bacher’s own fluid, open-ended methodology" - Ivana Cholakova, The Ten Best Shows in Europe of 2025 | Frieze

Utstillingen reiser nå videre til WIELS Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussel, der en ny versjon av Burning the Days åpner for publikum 28. mars.

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Andre utvalgte presseoppslag for Lutz Bacher: Burning the Days:

"Burning the Days er den første posthume retrospektive presentasjonen av en innflytelsesrik og mytisk kunstner – en utstilling som, med sin avmålte presisjon, setter en ny standard." - Boris Pofalla, Die Welt

"Eschewing conventional retrospective models at Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, the exhibition raises enduring questions of legacy and loss" - Jonathan Odden, Frieze

"A Traveling Retrospective Brings the Elusive Lutz Bacher into Full View" - Emily Watlington, Art in America

"Lutz Bacher, som gikk bort i 2019, hentet på mesterlig vis inspirasjon fra USAs visuelle historie. […] Nå kan man oppleve hennes komplekse og urovekkende arbeider i Oslo." - Alia Lübben, Monopol

"At a time when art demands instant legibility, her work insists on opacity; beneath its sleek iconoclasm runs a devotion to feeling itself — to producing moments of accidental openness and magic." - Sonja Tezler, Flash Art

«An unprecedented look at the artist’s provocative career ... a landmark exhibition at the Oslo museum» - Thom Waite, Dazed ⁠

«In an era when so much institutional art production chases clarity or moral alignment, Burning the Days revels in the ambiguity of the unresolved, the too-much, the not-enough.» - Hili Perlson, STIR World⁠

"Her wry, unsettling, and razor-sharp commentary still feels urgent. This exhibition honors her work and helps address the ways it has been overlooked." - Nina Strand, Camera Austria

"What counts here are the differences, the gaps and contradictions that come into being with every repetition. There is, more simply put, no one way to represent something." - Matthew Rana, Texte zur Kunst

"Man er nødt til at åbne øjne, ører og den mentale hjernebark derimellem. Ellers misser man det meste." - Pernille Albrethsen, Kunstkritikk

"... an unsettling blend of humor, pop culture, sexuality, violence, and political unease." - Alessio Avventuroso, Flash Art

"Burning the Days side-eyes the standard obligation of a posthumous survey ... This show, like Bacher gives in to noise." Phil Tarrant, emergent magazine

"A posthumous exhibition of the elusive artist’s works in Oslo compels us to consider the place of our individual fears in a precarious and complicated world." - Stephanie Gavan, Ocula