Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen

Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen är regelbunden medarbetare i Kunstkritikk. Bland hans senaste publikationer kan nämnas boken Big dig. Om samtidskonst och passivitet (2018), tillsammans Jonatan Habib Engqvist, liksom essäerna «Beckett och tankens genes» i antologin Deleuze och litteratur (red. Sehlberg och Wallenstein, 2018) samt «Överdrift, pinsamhet, förställning» i Kritiken i den nya offentligheten (red William-Olsson, 2018).

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Fun at Work

Maurizio Cattelan’s show at Moderna Museet rejects both religion and politics as models for art. Instead, it proposes, artists can take back control by slacking off.

Stockholm Syndrome

Critics must break the chains of administrative power.

Criticism Can Be Good

Reviews should be written for those who care, not for people in power. A new book collects some of the most savage criticism from the past sixty years.

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Three shows that art critic Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen didn’t write about, but still finds memorable.

Aesthetics of Concern

Lund Konsthall’s attempt to give political art a new edge succumbs to magisterial claims.

Fina Miralles Is Everything We Want an Artist To Be

But why do contemporary art institutions only show rebellious art from the 1970s?

The Life-Art of a Slut

Unravelling and sorting through threads of ideas, Leif Holmstrand’s retrospective at Marabouparken is surprisingly sanitized.

Once Removed from Art

Most of Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s works at Bonniers Konsthall would have worked better as printouts.

Come Rally for Art

Ingela Johansson’s polyphonic and overflowing exhibition at Södertälje Konsthall shows how art is a struggle for the fundamental conditions of human time.

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Which exhibitions sent art critic Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen off the rails in 2020?

Art Still Has Something

If contemporary art is as toothless as this year’s Luleå Biennial seems to argue, why should we engage with it? Luckily, the biennial offers a rather convincing answer to that question.

Hidden Exhibitions

Daniel Birnbaum and Sven-Olov Wallenstein’s book on Lyotard and the idea of the exhibition combines art criticism and philosophy in a way that is unlike any other.

Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen

All articles by Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen

Fun at Work

Stockholm Syndrome

Criticism Can Be Good

10 December Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen

Aesthetics of Concern

Fina Miralles Is Everything We Want an Artist To Be

The Life-Art of a Slut

Once Removed from Art

Come Rally for Art

14 December Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen

Art Still Has Something

Hidden Exhibitions

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She’s Still Here

Fake Like Snow

Crocodiles in the City

‘The artwork isn’t necessarily diplomatic’

Art with Maja

We Are Doomed

I Want a Courageous Museum

Fool’s Play

Art von Trier

Drain the Sea

The Centre Cannot Hold

Myths and Fables in the Nordic Pavilion

Systems Failure

The Optimist

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