Art Box portal // At a time when we are reading less and finding it increasingly difficult to sustain our concentration, writer and artist Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić invites us to embrace a simple gesture that today almost takes on the character of an act of resistance: to sit down, turn off our phones, and read,...
Art Box portal // Four international guest artists are opening their studios during Epidemifredag at Konstepidemin. The event is announced on Konstepidemin’s official website, inviting visitors to pop in, explore the artists’ current projects, talk about art, and, in one of the studios, even get a tattoo. On Friday, Guest Studio 3 in House 4...
By Dragan Vojvodić // Seeing The Cure and their iconic frontman Robert Smith live for the first time is, for me, more than an important musical event. As a teenager, I used to listen repeatedly to Faith on a Tosca turntable, at a time when an entire world seemed to be opening up before me....
By Dragan Vojvodić // On the second day of the Way Out West Festival in Gothenburg, some of the most influential bands to shape the music scene of the 1980s took to the festival’s two main stages, Flamingo and Azalea, set opposite one another and towering like multi-storey buildings. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds...
By Dragan Vojvodić // Georg Baselitz (1938–2026) brings his artistic career, and his own physical existence, to a closing act in his final cycle of paintings. He does not depart from the themes and gestures that have remained central to his practice throughout his career: portraits of his lifelong companion Elke, figures of soldiers and...
By Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić // Siri Hustvedt is hardly a new name on the literary scene. Since the publication of her first novel in the early 1990s, the Norwegian-American writer has built a distinctive body of work encompassing novels, poetry, essays and books that move between literature, art, psychology and contemporary society. Yet in the...
Art Box portal // From 13 to 15 August, Gothenburg once again became the setting for Way Out West, one of Sweden’s leading cultural events, bringing together contemporary music, film, talks and a broad range of cultural programmes. Art Box Portal was officially accredited to cover the festival this year as well, with particular attention...
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Art Box portal // On 14 August, the group exhibition [CROSSCUT] Beyond the Centre opened at Gallery Konstepidemin in Gothenburg, bringing together artists from Novi Sad and Gothenburg in an exhibition that explores connections between two cultural contexts beyond the traditional centres of their respective countries. The exhibition features works by Jasna Gulan Ružić, Maja...
Art Box Portal // On 14 August, a presentation of Instruction Readings, a series of artists’ books by Novi Sad–based author Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić, was held at BIBLIOTHEKET Mari Lagerquist, the art library within Konstepidemin in Gothenburg. Instruction Readings is a series of conceptual artist’s books that Vojvodić began in 2021 during her residency at...