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Tone Hansen Is the New Director of Moderna Museet

‘I take my position of power very seriously’.

Nimis Can Be Saved

After the death of Lars Vilks, the future of his site-specific work has been uncertain. Now the question of ownership is resolved, but some obstacles remain.

The Artist Who Painted af Klint’s Works

‘There is no doubt that she painted some of the works included in the Temple series’, says Daniel Birnbaum, editor of a new book about Anna Cassel.

Artists Rally Against Kiasma

‘It is both unsustainable and unethical’. Strike spokesperson Jenna Jauhiainen talks about the Finnish museum’s links to the Israeli arms trade.

Transport Stop

For one year, Moderna Museet showed only locally produced art. This is what they learned.

‘Sharpen the focus, be more radical, lead the way, and do something unexpected’

Bigert & Bergström’s Tipping Point will be shown during the UN’s climate summit in Stockholm.

‘The core question of art is the relation between ethics and aesthetics’, according to Charles Esche. Together with co-curator Susanne Ewerlöf he has curated Hurting and Healing at Tensta konsthall.

Stolen, Contested, Copied, Repatriated

‘I never seriously thought the textiles would be returned to Peru’, says Oscar Lara, who has worked for years on a project involving the Paracas textiles at the Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg.

First Course in Critical Whiteness Studies in the Nordics

“Racism and racial prejudice is impossible to understand without studying the normative white centre that gives rise to it”, says Jeff Werner, professor of art history at Stockholm University.

Pixel Pioneer

‘I never got the point of higher resolution’, says Charlotte Johannesson, whose trailblazing work in textile and computer graphics is currently on view at Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.

Market Art Fair Returns After One-Year Hiatus

‘If I were forced to name an upside of the pandemic, it has been that it gave us time to reflect on and re-evaluate what we do’, says Sara Berner Bengtsson, new Managing Director of the Nordic art fair.

Martha Rosler on Ice

‘We want the works to sink to the seabed only as a thought in the viewer’s mind’, say the curators of Goodbye, World, a biodegradable exhibition installed on a remote ice floe in northern Sweden.

Robert Stasinski

All articles by Robert Stasinski

Tone Hansen Is the New Director of Moderna Museet

Nimis Can Be Saved

The Artist Who Painted af Klint’s Works

Artists Rally Against Kiasma

Transport Stop

‘Sharpen the focus, be more radical, lead the way, and do something unexpected’

Upending Cultural Heritage

Stolen, Contested, Copied, Repatriated

First Course in Critical Whiteness Studies in the Nordics

Pixel Pioneer

Market Art Fair Returns After One-Year Hiatus

Martha Rosler on Ice

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