Fredrik Svensk

Fredrik Svensk, born 1974, is an art critic based in Gothenburg, Sweden. 

At Valand School of Fine Arts, University of Gothenburg, he is a part-time lecturer teaching art and culture theory and is running the Valand Seminar for Advanced Art Theory.

From 2011 he is the Editor-in-Chief at Paletten Art Journal, with Milou Allerholm and Sinziana Ravini, focusing on how to rethink the notion of autonomy with contemporary art and politics (paletten.net). From 2011 he is a staff writer and member or the editorial group at Kunstkrtikk.no. 

2004-2007 he was a contributing editor and staff writer at Paletten Art Journal, and has been contributing to journals, books and newspapers such as: Glänta, SITE MAGAZINE, Paletten, Sarai Reader, Neue Review, Anarchitecture, Paris, Res Publica, Aftonbladet kultur, Helsingborgs Dagblad and Göteborgs-Posten. He has also been translating texts by writers such as Gilles Deleuze. 

Recent curatorial projects (with Lisa Rosendahl and Henrik Andersson) at Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg: 
Äkta vara (true being / true commodity) 2007 was an investigating of different contemporary processes of subjectivation, with artists Debora Elgeholm, Annika Eriksson, Isabell Heimerdinger, Saskia Holmkvist, Katya Sander and Carey Young.
Art after Education, 2008 reexamined critical aspects of the method used in Adrian Pipers work Bach Whistled, 1970, by putting it into a contemporary socio-political context, with works by artists like Elke Marhöfer, Ida Börjel, Malmö Free University for Women.

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Category:Swedish art critics
Category:University of Gothenburg faculty
Category:1974 births
Category:Living people