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Fredrik Svensk

Fredrik Svensk, Associate Professor at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and Head of theory; Bachelor's in medium and material based art. He is the publisher and co-editor-in-chief of Paletten Art Journal and writes art criticism for Artforum and Aftonbladet Kultur. In the project Art Criticism after Liberalism, he researches the biopolitics of art and art critical subjectivity in Swedish modernity and beyond. Recent essays: ”Boycott as Art Critical Form”, Paletten 2022: 1-2, # 327-328; ”Frank semi-pessimism.” Frank, Oslo: Torpedo Press, 2021; ”Lönlöst arbete”, Salad Hilowle ed., Vanus Labor, Stockholm: Konstakademien, Stockholm, 2021;”Konstkritik som assimilation”, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Helena Mattsson, Kristina Riegert & Hans Ruin eds., Material: Filosofi, Estetik, Arkitektur, Stockholm: Södertörn University Press, 2020.

Research results

  • Fredrik Svensk: Den liberala demokratins konstkritiska protest (2023).
    Academic article. More information
  • Fredrik Svensk: Jennette Ehlers (2022).
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  • Fredrik Svensk: Boycott as Art Critical Form (2022).
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