The Defeated: The Aesthetics of Resistance 2026
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This book, which features previously unavailable texts by Peter Weiss and Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss, as well as newly written contributions by prominent Weiss scholars and leading international critics and intellectuals, is an extended part of the exhibition. From different positions and with different approaches, the texts in the book address the same problems as the artworks in the exhibition do. They are additional elements in the exhibition’s montage, extending its experiments in new directions. Here voices from then and now come together, describing and theorizing, reflecting and speculating on the world of The Aesthetics of Resistance, and the histories, artistic forms,…
Texts by Magnus Bergh, Claudia Firth, Anna Hallberg, Esther Leslie, Sven Lütticken, Joanna Nordin Asp, Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss, Jacques Rancière, Werner Schmidt, Gustav Strandberg, Alberto Toscano, Peter Weiss and Kim West.
This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition The Defeated: The Aesthetics of Resistance 2026, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, August 25–November 8, 2026.
Lead editor: Kim West
Editor: Gustav Strandberg
Copy editing: Patrick Seniuk
Graphic design: Rikard Heberling
Printed by Tallinna Raamatutrükikoda, Estonia
Published by Bokförlaget Faethon in collaboration with Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, 2026
ISBN 978-91-90144-33-6





