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At Kunsthall Charlottenborg, a group exhibition aims to draw connections between witch trials and colonialism but fails to grapple with their continuities
The premise the group exhibition ‘Witch Hunt’ at Kunsthal Charlottenborg is a reckoning with the history of colonialism in the Nordics. The show proposes seeing the persecution of witches as a metonym for the history of land-grabbing, misogyny and forced conversion in northern Europe. As the wall text starkly announces, over 50,000 people in Europe were sentenced, tortured and murdered for alleged witchcraft between 1450 and 1750 – thousands of them were women and Sámi people in Denmark, Sweden and Norway.