Kim West

Kim West är kritiker och forskare, baserad i Stockholm. Doktorerade i Estetik på Södertörns Högskola 2017, med avhandlingen The Exhibitionary Complex: Exhibition, Apparatus, and Media from Kulturhuset to the Centre Pompidou. Var Kunstkritikks nordiska redaktör i Stockholm hösten 2011–februari 2014.

Kim West is a critic and researcher, based in Stockholm. PhD in Aesthetics at Södertörn University, Stockholm 2017, with the dissertation The Exhibitionary Complex: Exhibition, Apparatus, and Media from Kulturhuset to the Centre Pompidou. Was Nordic Editor of Kunstkritikk in Stockholm Fall 2011–February 2014.

All articles by Kim West

Learning From Documenta 15

Learning From Documenta 15

Documenta can be seen as a school for anti-fascist living. But in what sense can an exhibition be a school?

The Cost of Iron

The Cost of Iron

Mapping the ongoing “relocation” of the city, Kiruna Forever at Arkdes in Stockholm shows how the city and the mining corporation LKAB form an integrated social and technological system.

A Swedish Conspiracy

A Swedish Conspiracy

Kybernein Institute’s The Campaign at Index describes the neoliberal paradigm shift in Sweden as the result of a vast and carefully orchestrated plot.

The Long 2010s

The Long 2010s

During the 2010s it has become apparent that the fascination of the archive can not be separated from the ideology of the digital data base.

Elegance’s Internationalisms

Elegance’s Internationalisms

Le monde nouveau de Charlotte Perriand is an imposing presentation of an artist who registers the contradictions of the 20th century. But did Perriand’s world consist only of men?

Recidivism (To Think With One’s Hands 4)

Recidivism (To Think With One’s Hands 4)

History does not repeat itself, it constructs analogies.

Second-Hand Ellipsis (To Think With One’s Hands 3)

Second-Hand Ellipsis (To Think With One’s Hands 3)

The reason the work was effective was that I thought that I did not read the text that I had to read in order to understand the work.

Action in Solidarity With the Protests in Chile

Action in Solidarity With the Protests in Chile

In connection to the opening of an exhibition with Swedish-Chilean art at the Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg, the artists organized an action in support of the ongoing protests in Chile.

Theory as Dystopia Industry (To Think With One’s Hands 2)

If everyone knew that control society was being realized, then why did panic not erupt?

To Think With One’s Hands

To Think With One’s Hands

How can art and culture overcome the fatalism of today? Can thought and hand once again be united? Only Boris Johnson’s id can save us now

Göteborg Is the World

Göteborg Is the World

Unlike a superhero movie, the 10th Göteborg Biennial does not seek to reach an audience consisting of all the people on earth.

A Gathering of Friends

A Gathering of Friends

Migration at Tensta Konsthall sets up a communication between different experiences of emigration, from the exile of war and resistance to dissolution in a cosmopolitical vortex of light.

Recently published

A Slipping Surfer

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

Back From the Grave

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

Inhuman Images

Inhuman Images

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

The Thinking Woman’s Shaman

The Thinking Woman’s Shaman

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