Robert Stasinski

Robert Stasinski har en bakgrund som konstnär, curator och skribent. Han har medverkat i bland annat Art Papers, Flash Art, Paletten, Glänta, Konstnären och Contemporary. Han är även kursansvarig för Arts Management vid internationella mastersprogrammet i Curating vid Stockholms universitet. Han senaste böcker inkluderar The Board Room (red. Robert Stasinski och Isak Nilson), 2017, samt Soli Deo Gloria / Lina Selander and Oscar Mangione (red. Robert Stasinski).

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Upending Cultural Heritage

‘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.

Gothenburg’s First LGBTQI+ Monument

‘I hope it will be very powerful, like a muted, solemn pride parade’, says artist Sam Hultin, who is involved in the preparatory study for the monument.

Sweden Makes Historic Investment in Culture

‘I think governments around the world should see this as a template for how to deal with the corona pandemic’, says Gitte Ørskou, director of Moderna Museet.

Weak Response to Black Lives Matter in Sweden

In an open letter to Swedish art institutions, a group of anonymous artists and culture workers demand that issues of racism, discrimination and whiteness be seriously addressed.

Criticised Artistic Research, Didn’t Pass the Viva

‘A farcical act of revenge’, according to Bogdan Szyber, who was unanimously rejected by a degree committee. For the first time in Sweden, a thesis in artistic research did not pass the public defence.

A School Divided

Internal conflicts, crisis of management, and despair among staff and students. A new report paints a dark picture of Stockholm’s Royal Institute of Art.

The Coronavirus Crisis Strikes a Hard Blow

Yesterday, Moderna Museet was one of the last major museums in Northern Europe to close. But several Swedish art institutions remain open to the public.

Robert Stasinski

All articles by Robert Stasinski

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

Gothenburg’s First LGBTQI+ Monument

Sweden Makes Historic Investment in Culture

Weak Response to Black Lives Matter in Sweden

Criticised Artistic Research, Didn’t Pass the Viva

A School Divided

The Coronavirus Crisis Strikes a Hard Blow

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Dope Money

Zero G Aesthetics

‘There will always be some unrest in a large institution’

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The Labours of Daniel Birnbaum

Marcel, ma belle

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Beauty and War

Dope Money

From Kharkiv to Moscow

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Complexity Needs Limits

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