Articles : List of articles
Anthologies
- “Rethinking the Relational” in: Art versus Polis – Neighbourhood Secrets, Ed: Trygve Riiser Gundersen. Press Publishing, Public Art Norway Oslo (September 2009)
- ”An amateur’s choice” on Peter Hjörne’s Art Collection. Forsman & Bodenfors, Göteborgs Posten (April 2009)
- “On Saadane Afif” in “French Connection” Les Presses du Réel. Blackjack Editions Ed: Léa Gauthier (October 2008)
- ”In defense of expansive aesthetics” in On the State of Art – Ed: Leif Mattson. Langenskiöld (January 2008)
Magazines and Catalogues:
- "Utopian thinking in past and contemporary times", SITE Magazine (2011)
- "Pandemonium" Art Forum, review December (2011)
- "The Istanbul Biennial" Technikart November (2011)
- "Alexander Singh" at Art Concept Technikart November (2011)
- "Shifting the real" Code Magazine, 3# Autumn (2011)
- "Confessions from the Cellar hole" Paletten nr. 3 (2011)
- "Anna Odell" Artpress 2 n°23 "21st-Century Masterpieces" (2011-2012)
- "The hidden face of Dorinel Marc" ICR (2011)
- "Les psychonautes" Frog 10# (2011)
- "Anish Kapoor at Grand Palais", Technikart June (2011)
- "Autonomy in the age of Neoliberalism" Paletten Magazine (Theme - Autonomy), (2011)
- "The last romantics" Catalogue text for The Master Student Exhibition of The Royal Academy of Arts, Stockholm (2011)
- "Curating in the service of the state" The Annual Catalogue of The National Public Art Council of Sweden (2011)
- 7 articles on 7 artists (Marion Auburtin, Julien Langendorff, Bérangère Hénin, Camille Goujon, Raphaële de Gorostarzu, David Orstman and Xavier Antin for Le Salon de Montrouge (2010)
- "Centrifugal desires, temporary autonomous zones and axis mundi", Catalogue Text - Supermarket (2011)
- "On Moderna Exhibition" Stockholm, artforum.com (December 2010)
- “Between Politics and ‘Poli-ticks’”, Catalogue Text for “New Gravity/Interesting Thing” at NCCA, Moscow (December 2010)
- “Yearchronicle” Artlover (December 2010)
- “The Promises of Sorrow”, Catalogue Text for Mandana Moghaddam (October 2010)
- Catalogue text for Hervé Coqueret (October 2010)
- Catalogue text for Linn Fernström (September 2010)
- “Nordic Delight”, Catalogue Text for Nordic Delight (September 2010)
- “Movements and Countermovements”, Artlover (September 2010)
- “Another way” Catalogue Text for Another way at Wanås Exhibitions (May 2010)
- “New Beginnings” Catalogue text – “Prologue” and “Epilogue” IASPIS, Stockholm (March 2010)
- "The Promisses of the past” Centre Pompidou, Paris (April 2010), Texts on Braco Dimitrijevic, David Maljkovic, Mangelos, Dan Perjovschi, Roman Ondak, The Gorgona Group, Ion Grigorescu, Stanko Filko and Dimitri Prigov.
- Art Concept, Group exhibition “Cinématique, esthétique, politique, hermétique”, Michel Blazy, Ulla von Brandenburg, Jeremy Deller, Richard Fauguet, Vidya Gastaldon, Lothar Hempel, Adam McEwen, Pietro Roccasalva, Roman Signer, critics’ pick, artforum.com (February 2010)
- ”Pierre Huyghe and defiction”, Frog Magazine (2010)
- Lina Selander, Catalogue text (2010)
- Lovisa Ringborg Catalogue text, Limbo Pictures (2010)
- Christina Skårud, Catalogue text, The Annual Catalogue of The National Public Art Council of
Sweden (2010)
- Pia Mauno, Catalogue text, The Annual Catalogue of The National Public Art Council of Sweden (2010)
- “Guest+Host=Ghost” Kendell Geers, Stephen Friedman Gallery, critics’ picks, artforum.com (December-January 2009-2010)
- “La Suite”, Group exhibition at Air de Paris with Lily van der Stokker, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Ann Veronica Janssens, Ben Kinmont, Philippe Parreno, Claire Fontaine, Trisha Donnelly, M/M (paris), Liam Gillick, Moriceau & Mrzyk, critics’ picks, artforum.com (December 2009)
- “Year Chronicle 2008-2009 at the School of Photography” Art Monitor and University of
Gothenburg 2009
- ”What keeps mankind alive? The Istanbul Biennial 2009” www.vm2000.net, (Virtuelles Magazin 2000) Edition 53 (November 2009) + in Art Notes Magazine (December 2009)
- “The last temptations of socioromanticism” – SITE Magazine (September 2009)
- Exhibition text for Charlotte Gyllenhammar – Christian Larsen Gallery. (27 August – 4 October 2009)
- ”Letters from the underground” in Be Contemporary (June 2009)
- “Micromelodramas, Subtraction and Desire – the Dangerous Liaisons of Romanticism” Catalogue Text for Group Exhibition at Umeå Konsthögskola (May 2009)
- “Nicolas Bourriaud in conversation with Sinziana Ravini” in The Fifth Floor, Ideas Taking Space, Ed: Peter Gorschlüter, Liverpool University Press (February 2009)
- "The 50 Moons of Saturn: the Second Torino Triennial” Site Magazine Nr. 24 (December 2008)
- “The Study Circle as underground movement” Catalogue text for the group Exhibition DVD Compilation at ABF Gothenburg (December 2008)
- Interview with Damián Ortega by Anna Hiddleston and Sinziana Ravini in Collection Espace 315. Champ de Vision. Éditions du Centre Pompidou. (November 2008)
- “A Spectacle of the spectacle” Catalogue Text for Lina Selander’s Exhibition “When the sun sets it’s all red, then it disappears” at Nordin Gallery, Stockholm (October 2008)
- “Indian Focus” Picks Artforum.com (07.15.08)
- “Neighbourhood Secrets” in Frog n°7. (July 2008)
- “Art after social change” Catalogue text for the exhibition “Playground Revolutions” (March 2008)
- “In the era of fictionalism” Hjärnstorm Magazine – Theme: Imaginary expeditions (February 2008)
- “An Archive of Pain in the Palace of Oblivion” Site Magazine Nr. 21. (2007)
- “The depoliticized field, the mental revolutions and the new medias 1975-85” Catalogue Text for “Light the Darkness” exhibition at the Gothenburg Art Museum (2007)
- “Psychedelic Art, Social Surrealism and Fun Art” Glänta Magazine (2007)
- “Goethe and the emancipation of man”, Axess Magazine, Theme: Said and Orientalism (2007)
- “Sinziana Ravini about Kajsa G Eriksson”, The Annual Catalogue of the National Art Council, Sweden (Nr. 36) (2007)
- “Between idealism and materialism, text and nontext”, Aorta Magazine (2007)
- “The church, the state and the market”, Site Magazine (Nr. 18-19. 2007)
- “The eternal return of romanticism”, Catalogue Text for the exhibition “In search of the lost self”, Bonniers Konsthall (2007)
- “Craft in dialogue – Craft is handmade communication”, review for Paletten Magazine – theme: Handcraft (Nr. 1. 2007)
- Guest editor with Charlotte Karlsson and Kalle Brolin of “Russian Images”, Ord & Bild – Theme: Paranoia/Russia (Nr. 6. 2006 & Nr. 1. 2007)
- “The lovelife of Goethe”, Aorta – Theme: decadence (Nr. 2006:4)
- ”Neoexotism as an artistic strategy in the works of Katarina Nitsch, Lovisa Ringborg and Kristina Müntzing”, Paletten – Desire and Exotism (Nr. 3. 2006)
- ”Intercultural Aesthetics”, Glänta Magazine (Nr. 3. 2006)
- ”Biennal rhetorics and politics of taste”, Paletten Magazine – What is Art? (Nr. 4. 2005-2006)
- ”Inverted Film Noir Aesthetics – A study of the visual world of Katarina Nitsch” Exhibition Catalogue, Anna Nordlander Museum (2006)
- ”Dialogical Aesthetics and the rise and fall of relational aesthetics”, Paletten Magazine –Theme Dialogue – the luxury of freedom” (Nr. 2. 2006)
- ”Oleg Kulik – the social monster”, Paletten Magazine – theme: The Moscow Biennale and the Russian Art Scene (Nr. 1. 2005)
- ”AES+F Group”, Paletten Magazine – theme: The Moscow Biennale and the Russian Art Scene (Nr. 1. 2005)
- ”In-between worlds, about Clemens von Wedemeyer”, Paletten Magazine – theme: The Moscow Biennale and the Russian Art Scene (Nr. 1. 2005)
- ”The fundamental nature of the sound” (about Russel Haswell) Exhibition Catalogue, The Populist – Frankfurt Kunstverein (2005)
- ”Don’t think, look” (about Amar Kanwar), The Populist – Frankfurt Kunstverein (2005)
- ”The psychosexual drama in Eric Fischl’s and Ylva Ogland’s art”, Paletten Magazine – theme: The 80’s and the impossible (im)possible heritage (Nr. 3. 2004)
- ”Interview with Nicolas Bourriaud – Paris 26 July 2004”, Paletten Magazine – theme: Spaces of art (Nr. 2-3. 2004)
- ”Cecilia Parsberg and the aesthetics of the intercultural encounter ”, Paletten Magazine – theme: Spaces of art (Nr. 2-3. 2004)
Articles for the Daily Newspaper Dagens Nyheter (2009-)
- Article on "Basquiat" at Musée Moderne de La Ville de Paris and "Fresh Hell" at Palais de Tokyo (2 December 2010)
- Article on Elisabeth Ohlsson Wallin’s Exhibition “Jerusalem” at The Museum of Worldculture in Gothenburg (18 November 2010)
- Article on Manifesta in Murcia, (14 October 2010)
- Article on the "Moderna Exhibition", Stockholm (10 October 2010)
- Article on Matthew Barney, Schaulager in Basel (2 September 2010)
- Article on the Spring Exhibition at the Royal Art Academy in Stockholm entitled “Happy Revolution” (1 june 2010)
- Article on the new Pompidou Metz entitled “Phantasmagoric museum reflects on masterpieces” (20 May 2010)
- Article on João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva’s exhibition at Index in Stockholm (12 May 2010)
- Article on Damien Hirst’s Cornucopia in Monaco entitled “Damien Hirst att Museée Océanographique in Monaco (29 April 2010)
- Article on Lucian Freud at Centre Pompidou (23 April 2010)
- Article on Mobile Art Production’s exhibition “Streetview” entitled “Streetview, at Mobile Art Production, Gothenburg”. (15 April 2010)
- Article on The Renaissance exhibitions in Gothenburg entitled “And there was light at Eriksbergshallen in Gothenburg” (22 March 2010)
- Article on the exhibitions The Children of Ceausescu and Rethinking Kakotopia entitled: “The Children of Ceausescu at Tensta Konsthall” (18 March 2010)
- Article on Andrea Geyer’s and Sharon Hayes Exhibition at Gothenburg Konsthall entitled: “Andrea Geyer and Sharon Hayes at Gothenburg Konsthall (4 February 2010)
- Article on Georges Didi-Huberman’s ”Ouvrir Venus” entitled “Georges Didi-Huberman: ”Open Venus, Nudity, Dream, Cruelty” (22 December 2009)
- Article on the Renoir exhibition at Grand Palais in Paris entitled: “Renoir in the 20th Century at Grand Palais, Paris” (17 December 2009)
- Article on Simon Goldin’s and Jakob Senneby’s exhibition at Index (26 November 2009)
- Article on Tate Modern’s group exhibition Poplife entitled ”Poplife – Art in a Material World at Tate Modern, London”. (29 October 2009)
- Short text on the Frieze Artfair (16 October 2009)
Articles and Chronicles for the Daily Newspaper Göteborgs-Posten
- Article on Markis de Sade | "Juliette", part III–IV (24 November 2010)
- Article on Claude Magris, "As you might understand" (17 November 2010)
- Article on Pontus Hultén, "The Big Art Scandal" (22 October 2010)
- Article on Erica Jong, "Seducing the Demon" (20 October 2010)
- Article on Ulrika Kärnborg, "As if" (11 October 2010)
- Article on Bengt Ohlsson, "Kolka" (October 2010)
- Article on Joyce Carol Oates, "Little Bird of Heaven" (5 October 2010)
- Article on Therese Bohman, "The drowned" (23 August 2010)
- Article on the Berlin Biennale entitled "The Berlin Biennale, What is waiting out there" (5 July 2010)
- Article on Shaun Tan's book entitled "Shaun Tan, The Arival" (2 July 2010)
- Article on Haruki Murakami's book entitled "Haruki Murakami, What I talk about when I talk about running (23 June 2010)
- Article on the Bucharest Biennale entitled "The Bucharest Biennale BB4" (18 June 2010)
- Article on Per Hagman's book "Friends for life" (21 May 2010)
- Chronicle on the announcement of Daniel Birnbaum as the new director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, entitled "Dare to Risk" (7 May 2010)
- Article on Suzanne Brogger's book "The Veil" entitled "Suzanne Brogger, The Veil" (3 May 2010)
- Article on the Lucian Freud exhibition at Centre Pompidou entitled “Centre Pompidou, Paris, Lucian Freud” (10 April 2010)
- Article on Maja Lundgren entitled “Powerful Coltsfoot”, 12 March (2010)
- Chronicle on Alain Badiou’s Eloge de l’amour entitled: “Love means taking risks” (6 Feburary 2010)
- Article on Virginia Woolf’s “The Voyage out” (2 February 2010)
- Article on Jan Arnald’s Intimus (29 January 2010)
- Chronicle on Lars Nittve’s departure from Moderna Museet entitled: “Post-Nittve at Moderna” (21 January 2010)
- Year Chronicle (5 January 2010)
- Article on Virginia Woolf’s “London” (11 December 2009)
- Article on Marquis de Sade’s “Juliette” (19 November 2009)
- Article on Simone de Beauvoir’s ”L’invite'e” (She Came to Stay) entitled ”Simone de Beauvoir, The Guest” (9 November 2009)
- Article on Kent Karlsson’s Holocaust Memorial entitled “A necessary unnecessity” (7 September 2009)
- Chronicle on The Tribunal Sentence on Anna Odell entitled “Anna Odell has written history” (31 August 2009)
- Chronicle on India Art Summit entitled “India’s Picasso – a security risk” (28 August 2009)
- Article on Johan Lundberg’s and Christopher Rådlund’s book Figurations (13 August 2009)
- Responses to the writers’ responses published on 17 August and 21 August 2009)
- Article on Horace Engdahl’s The Scar after the Dream (7 August 2009)
- Article on Ernst and Helene Billgrens exhibition at Hamnmagasinet Varberg entitled ”Finally together” (2 July 2009)
- Article on Anna Odell’s exhibition at Konstfack entitled ”The Falsity of Art leads to Light” (14 May 2009)
- ”Saturday Review” (March 2009)
- On Elin Berge (March 2009)
- ”Saturday Review”(February 2009)
- Chronicle on Anna Odell entitled “In the mind you’re always free” (4 February 2009)
- “Saturday Review” (January 2009)
- “Year 2008 in Review” (January 2009)
- “Saturday Review” (13 December 2008)
- “Saturday Review” (8 November 2008)
- On Freddie Wadling” (7 November 2008)
- On Annika Ström (6 October 2008)
- “Saturday Review” (4 October 2008)
- “Wanås 2008 – Loss” (20 June 2008)
- “Pure Reality” (22 March 2008)
- “Saturday Review” (10 March 2008)
- “On Tom Benson” (23 April 2008)
- “Saturday Review” (12 April 2008)
- “On the Berlin Biennale” (10 April 2008)
- “Pure Reality” (22 March)
- “Saturday Review” (16 March 2008)
- “Saturday review” (16 February 2008)
- “On Maria Hall” (10 February 2008)
- “Conceptual Art at Red Stone” (8 February 2008)
- “Saturday review” (19 January 2008)
- “Remembrances” (11 January 2008)
- “Year 2007 in Review”, (4 January 2008)
- ”Dare to risk, dare to win” (24 November 2007)
- ”Saturday Review” (9 November 2007)
- ”Compassion or pity?” Chronicle (2 November 2007)
- ”Saturday Review” (6 October 2007)
- ”On Sven Nilsson” (9 September 2007)
- “What do we do with what we see and know?” (29 August 2007)
- ”Male, brusque and loving“ (17 August 2007)
- ”About the fear of thinking wrong” (13 July 2007)
- “A low-voiced declaration of love” (2 June 2007)
- ”Saturday review” (12 May 2007)
- ”Saturday review” (31 March 2007)
- ”Sinziana Ravini about the Moscow Biennale”, Chronicle (4 March 2007)
- ”Saturday review” (10 February 2007)
- “Liljevalchs Konsthall: Spring Lounge” (1 February 2007)
- ”Martin Widerberg” (20 January 2007)
- ”Saturday Review” (2 December 2006)
- “The impossible art space” (24 November 2006)
- ”Saturday Review” (9 September 2006)
- ”The return of the drawing board” (8 September 2006)
- ”Wild swines, playboys and Nordic melancholia” (6 September 2006)
- ”Mirrorings and Reflections” (12 August 2006)
- ”Intriguing art colonizes the public space in the middle of the EM-Whirl” (11 August 2006)
- ”From sideburns to bleached hair” (27 April 2006)
- ”Rather exotic than normalized” (6 May 2006)
- ”The rebellion against the father is not enough” (25 March 2006)
- ”Enlightenment and virgin forest” (11 March 2006)
- ”Through the binoculars” (21 January 2006)
- ”Play with visual lusts” (10 December 2005)
- ”A bus trip to Kållered is equally good” (Chronicle) (24 November 2005)
- ”For the sake of the freeing humour” (6 November 2005)
- ”What remains, is a simple, Romanian peasant” (30 June 2005)
- “Give us intellectual entertainment”, Inquiry about Göteborgs Konsthall (31 May 2005)
Articles for Kunstkritikk.no (2010-)
- Article on Mary Kelly, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, (4 November 2010)
- Article on Manifesta in Murcia, (18 October 2010)
Chronicles from Paris for the Daily Newspaper Helsingborg Dagblad (2010-)
Articles for the Evening Newspaper Aftonbladet
- Article on Postmodernism and what comes after, entitled – ”The way out” (31 October 2009)
- Article on Stefan Constantinescu's Artist Book “The Golden Era for Children” entitled “Distorted Communism – something for the kids” (5 August 2009)
- Article on Voice Over and Geist #15-16 ”On Scene” published by IASPIS and Sternberg Press entitled “Criticism as a theatrical form” (30 July 2009)
- Article on Göteborgs Konsthalls group exhibition ”An unexpected thought – Function in Contemporary Art” entitiled ”Unexpected road signs” (2 July 2009)
- Article on Anna Odell’s Exhibition ”Reconstruction” at Kalmar Konstmuseum (27 June 2009)
- The Venice blog – ”The Venice Biennale – From in and outside”, ”Venice Muppet show”, ”To tell or not to tell”, ”Sade, Barons and Censorship”, ”The waiter and Thomas Mann”, ”Power adorns itself with art” (2 – 10 June 2009)
- Article on Staffan Schmidt’s and Mike Bode’s PhD Off the Grid entitled ”Research in the Borderland” (30 May 2009)
- Article on Giorgio de Chirico at Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris entitled ”The man against the stream (4 May 2009)
- Article on the Havana Biennale entitled ”Hola Cuba” (24 April 2009)
- Article on W.G. Sebald’s Vertigo entitled ”Vertiginous reading trip” (8 April 2009)
- Article on ”En annan konst” at Göteborgs Konstmuseum entitled ”In- and Outside”. (26 March 2009)
- Article on Yto Barrada and Hala Elkoussy at Göteborgs Konsthall entitled ”Postcolonial slapstick” (22 March 2009)
- Article on the Pre-Raphaelites at the National Museum in Stockholm (3 March 2009)
- Debate Article on Stockholm Artfair entitled “Galleries are swapping roles” (19 February 2009)
- Article on Disarming Matter at Dunkers entitled “Dissolution” (7 January 2009)
- Article on the Manga Exhibition at Louisiana entitled “Merciless” (29 December 2008)
- Article on the Picasso Exhibition in Paris entitled “Recycling with Picasso” (15 December 2008)
- Article on Le Clezio’s Ballaciner entitled “The film as the ultimate journey” (10 December 2008)
- Debate Article entitled “See the shades, Lundberg” (8 December 2008)
- Article on Umberto Eco’s On ugliness entitled “The ugly became beautiful” (1 December 2008)
- Article on Serge Gainsbourg entitled “From jazz to je t’aime” (26 November 2008)
- Article on artistic research and the exhibition Talking loud and saying something entitled ”Show your face” (29 October 2008)
- Article on the exhibition Disarming Matter at Dunkers Kulturhus (October 2008)
- Article on Per Kirkeby at Louisiana entitled “Kirkeby goes his own way” (28 October 2008)
- Article on the exhibition After Eisenstein at Lunds Konsthall entitled “A slap in the face” (16 October 2008)
- Press Item on the Performance Festival Live Action (11 October 2008)
- Press Item on the highlights of the culture scene in France (24 September 2008)
- Article on Malmö Konsthalls four solo exhibitions: Johanna Billing, Sergej Jensen, Josef Strau and Isa Genzken entitled “Lost in art” (23 September 2008)
- Article on Loulou Cherinet (September 2008)
- Article on Manifesta entitled ”Straight into the future” (3 August 2008)
- Article on Victoria Fareld’s Thesis “Being without oneself within oneself entitled “Out of the self”(15 July 2008)
- Article on the Bucharest Biennale (6 June 2008)
- Article on the French art scene entitled “Here is justice being done” 25 May 2008)
- “Look, Danish Natives!”(3 March 2008)
- Article on Nietzsche’s Thus spoke Zarathustra entitled “Saved By Nietzsche” (27 February 2008)
- Article on the Exhibition Ellipsis entitled “Mirror, Mirror” (22 February 2008)
- Article on Annika Eriksson (26 January 2008)
- “Highlights of year 2007” (2 January 2008)
- Article on Fiona Tan entitled “Love in the heart of darkness” (1 December 2007)
- Article on Nan Goldin entitled ”She makes life more interesting than art” (17 November 2007)
- ”The Lyon Biennale” (1 November 2007)