The Radiant Light of the Queer Sun
A new book by artist Afrang Nordlöf Malekian and art historian Nour Helou explores beauty as a geopolitical force, from the Iranian Qajar dynasty into the present.
Jesper Strömbäck Eklund
All articles by Jesper Strömbäck Eklund
8 December
Critic Jesper Strömbäck Eklund looks back on a year marked by the loss of a beloved colleague.
Carsten Höller’s Slippery Slopes
Moderna Museet favours spectacle over substance.
Marie-Louise Ekman’s Late Style
Irreverent, intimate, and unmistakably herself.
Monika Sosnowska’s Ruin Made of Thin Air
In a lush corner of Stockholm, the Polish artist conjures the ghost of a museum that never was.
Fake Like Snow
Carola Grahn brings a pitch-perfect wit to Sámi feminism at Liljevalchs in Stockholm.
The Optimist
Everything you need to dream as Valeria Montti Colque’s recreates the Chilean Pavilion in Stockholm.
A Wonderful Treat
Vaginal Davis’s retrospective at six Stockholm institutions should come with a cautionary label. Her megalomania may fundamentally transform the viewer.
Market Time Again
Stockholm galleries and Danish ’hygge’ will set the tone at Market Art Fair. Fewer Norwegians present as the fair will open on Norway’s Constitution Day 17 May.
5 December Jesper Strömbäck Eklund
Wham-Bam! Which exhibition gave art critic Jesper Strömbäck Eklund an intellectual orgasm?
OMG R U 4 Real?
At Accelerator in Stockholm, Lisa Tan dissects a contemporary neurotic with great accuracy.
Beauty Politics
Isaac Julien’s Tate Britain retrospective is shot through with subversive erotic energy.
