April 2026
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Date: Wednesday, April 22
Time: at 18.00-20.00
Location: The Royal Academy of Fine Arts auditorium
No pre-registration required.
Time: at 18.00-20.00
Location: The Royal Academy of Fine Arts auditorium
No pre-registration required.
In her artistic career, Linnéa Sjöberg has taken on roles as a businesswoman, tattoo artist, Viking woman or breast augmentation speculator, and the solo exhibition "Out of character", which opened at Accelerator in March, presents documentation and film material from her performative works together with new sculptural installations.
Is it self-disclosure or self-effacement, boundary-crossing or distanced? And does Sjöberg, as the art gallery suggests, use herself as material? “It is true that she puts her whole person into her work,” writes Frans Josef Petersson in his review in Kunstkritikk, “for example, by tattooing her body, but the movement between art and life occurs primarily in the other direction: unlike autofiction and the like, she does not bring her own life into her art, but rather lets art and fiction infiltrate her life, which is allowed to function as an arena for ongoing work.”
And in Dagens Nyheter, Magnus Bons writes: "I experience Sjöberg's work as more self-exploratory than self-disclosure. As a viewer, you can't really get to her. There is a strange self-awareness in her process, even though I don't doubt that it is intuitive and self-generating."
On April 22, they will meet at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts' critics' lounge in a conversation about the 2010s art scene, autofiction and ideals. The conversation will be moderated by Hanna Johansson, critic and author. Welcome!
