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.

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Assemblage Degree Zero

The works in Nina Beier’s exhibition at Charlottenborg are based on unexpected juxtapositions of objects that don’t mean anything.

After the White Cube

The Twelfth Istanbul Biennial’s conservatism is the necessary condition for a series of radical curatorial decisions and artistic positions.

Culture: long-term care

The major investment in the new Swedish cultural budget is a labor market measure directed towards the long-term unemployed and people with disabilities.

Reading an Exhibition

The Spiral and the Square: Exercises in translatability at Bonniers Konsthall raises basic questions about how one reads a wide-ranging group exhibition.

School Begins without Diversity

In the academic year 2009-10 the number of «third-country students» at Swedish colleges and universities was 16,600. As the new academic year begins it is 1,280, and schools in the arts are hit hardest.

Situationist Histories

The anthology Expect Anything, Fear Nothing enriches the established narratives of the postwar avant-garde movements with its depiction of the Scandinavian Situationists.

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