Dan Karlholm

Dan Karlholm is professor of Art History at Södertörn University in Stockholm. His research deals mainly with historiography and contemporary art as an historical phenomenon. He has published a number of books, including Art of Illusion (2006), Kontemporalism: om samtidskonstens historia och framtid (Swedish only) (2014) and Time in the History of Art (with Keith Moxey) (2018).

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Biography of a Star

The first extensive biography of Hilma af Klint misrepresents her work through art-historical cherry picking.

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A Slipping Surfer

Esben Weile Kjær may be a rising star, but his Solar System in Aalborg consists of rat-infested ruins, mutations, and epoxy diamonds. Is it for real or simply fake?

Back From the Grave

In Ann-Sofie Back’s Stockholm retrospective, fashion and death go hand in hand.

Inhuman Images

War is the artist’s muse in Vanessa Baird’s retrospective at Munch Museum in Oslo.

The Thinking Woman’s Shaman

Katalin Ladik’s first major presentation in the Nordics underscores the transformative power of the voice.

Dan Karlholm

All articles by Dan Karlholm

Biography of a Star

Recently published

A Slipping Surfer

Back From the Grave

Inhuman Images

The Thinking Woman’s Shaman

Mood over Content

Inhuman Images

A Museum for a New Era

‘The role of the artist is to show the bottom of the ocean’

The Thinking Woman’s Shaman

Long Live Surrealism!

‘I went into a very dark hole for a long time’

Artist Plants New Forest in Denmark

Back From the Grave

Abuses of Genius

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