Jesper Strömbäck Eklund Archives

All articles by Jesper Strömbäck Eklund

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.

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.