{"id":34327,"date":"2025-12-09T13:32:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bonnierskonsthall.se\/?post_type=bonnier_exhibition&p=34327"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:50:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:50:42","slug":"the-defeated-the-aesthetics-of-resistance-2026","status":"publish","type":"bonnier_exhibition","link":"https:\/\/bonnierskonsthall.se\/en\/utstallning\/the-defeated-the-aesthetics-of-resistance-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The Defeated: The Aesthetics of Resistance 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Defeated: The Aesthetics of Resistance 2026<\/h2>\n\n\n

26 aug \u2192 8 nov 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Participating artists:<\/b> Zbyn\u011bk Baladr\u00e1n, Chiara Bugatti, Ali Cherri, \u00d6yvind Fahlstr\u00f6m, Harun Farocki, Jean-Luc Godard, Ane Hjort Guttu, Hamedine Kane, Kateryna Lysovenko, Asier Mendizabal, Peter Nestler, Daniela Ortiz, Valerie Osouf, Gunilla Palmstierna Weiss, Christoffer Paues, Samuel Richter, Lenke Rothman, Lina Selander, Peter Weiss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Publication:<\/strong>\u00a0Magnus Bergh, Claudia Firth, Anna Hallberg, Esther Leslie, Sven L\u00fctticken, Joanna Nordin, Fran\u00e7ois Piron, Jacques Ranci\u00e8re, Werner Schmidt, Gustav Strandberg, Alberto Toscano, Peter Weiss, Kim West.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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If we want to take on art, literature, we have to treat them against the grain, that is, we have to eliminate all the concomitant privileges and project our own demands into them. In order to come to ourselves, said Heilmann, we have to re-create not only culture but also all science and scholarship by relating them to our concerns.<\/em> \u2013 Peter Weiss, The Aesthetics of Resistance<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But who are \u201cwe\u201d? And is this still our dream? Can the artworks of the past and the present be convoked for a resistance against the rising fascisms and inequalities of our times? Can culture be a means for community in today\u2019s divided world? In the fall of 2026, Bonniers Konsthall presents a group exhibition that draws on the novel The Aesthetics of Resistance<\/em> (1975\u201381), by the Swedish-German author, playwright, and artist Peter Weiss. The exhibition features newly produced works by an international group of artists; historical works and documents from Weiss\u2019s circles and the novel\u2019s world; and a program of lectures, performances, film screenings, and conferences, starting already in the Spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition\u2019s title is borrowed from another novel by Weiss, The Defeated (De besegrade)<\/em>, published by Bonniers in 1948. That book evokes an inferno: the world of ruins that Weiss encountered when he visited his former homeland Germany after the end of the war. But his account does not register the reality that confronted him during his travels. Instead, Weiss inscribes his experience in a surrealist dream landscape. When Weiss returns to the same world in The Aesthetics of Resistance<\/em>, the logic of dreams still governs the book\u2019s documentary montage of times, places, artworks, and people. But history has regained its reality: we have been led from a dream of sleep to a waking dream, where the resistances of the past seek a new unity with the conflicts and the communities of the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curators: Kim West (researcher and critic. Stockholm); Fran\u00e7ois Piron (curator, Paris); and Joanna Nordin (Artistic Director Bonniers Konsthall).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image from: Elisabeth Rohde,\u00a0Pergamon, Burgberg und Altar,<\/em>\u00a01976<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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