Bonniers Konsthall in collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Studies in Political Aesthetics (IAS) present a series of lectures and discussions in preparation of the exhibition The Defeated: The Aesthetics of Resistance 2026, which opens at Bonniers Konsthall on August 26 and continues until November 8, 2026.

The Aesthetics of Resistance is a novel that chronicles different forms of cultural organization: associations for safeguarding culture from the devastations of fascism; meeting places and collectives for inventing a future beyond fascism. It is also a novel around which people have organized for collective reading, in reading groups, discussion circles, and research collectives. What can we learn from these forms today, and how can they be developed for creating new forms of resistance and future modes of community?

Participants: Sven Lütticken (Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Samuel Richter (Artist, PhD student, Linköping University) and Hedvig Wiezell (Operational Manager (Verksamhetschef), Folkets Husby)

The program runs for two hours, including an interval.
In English. Free admission, no pre-registration required. Limited number of seats.

The program series is curated by Kim West (researcher and critic. Stockholm); François Piron (curator, Paris); and Joanna Nordin (Artistic Director Bonniers Konsthall).

With support from The Swedish Academy.

Image from: Elisabeth Rohde, Pergamon, Burgberg und Altar, 1976