Published August 27, 2021 at 09.03
Culture. Despite protests from establishment profiles in Sweden, the Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw will exhibit works by Malmö artist Dan Park, who has been sentenced to prison for his art by the Swedish state. This is stated by representatives of the exhibition for SVT's Kulturnyheterna.
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DN profile Maciej Zaremba, who himself fled the Poland of anti-Semitism in 1969 and who today is considered one of Sweden's sharpest critics of freedom of expression & shy;, is appalled by the decision of the Polish art gallery.
& ndash ; It is an attempt to make hate speech and and incitement against ethnic groups room clean by saying that it is art, and then it must apply to a very extensive freedom of expression, warns Zaremba in SVT.
According to Zaremba, the decision is a state intervention. in the human right to censorship.
& ndash; For the past three or four years, the government has taken over a whole range of cultural institutions, and that is actually part of this cultural war that the government is waging. So it is not surprising that a politically appointed boss is embarking on this type of provocation.
In addition to Dan Park, the Islam-critical artist Lars Vilks will be in the exhibition.
& ndash; We work with artists who work on themes that other people do not think should be worked on or talked about, states Jan Eirik Lundberg, who together with art historian Piotr Piotrowski is behind the exhibition.
& ndash; If they succeed, activists or others, in canceling Dan Park, they can cancel anyone, Lundberg tells SVT.