Hakan Nilsson

Södertörn University

June–August 2016

Håkan Nilsson divides his time between being a professor in art and art history at Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Department of Fine Arts, and associate professor in art history at Södertörn University, Department of Art History. He is engaged in topics concerning the politics of public art and the spatiality of painting which has resulted in the books Placing Art in the Public Realm (ed.) and The Space of Painting. At the Clark, he will work on a research project concerning collaborations within and among different modernist art groups in Western and Eastern Europe during the decades after the Second World War.