Sofia Hallström

In Lithuania, a giant Tony Soprano co-exists with crumbling post-Soviet architecture. What can an installation on hoarding teach us about memory, resilience and transgenerational inheritance

TANK Magazine Winter Issue 2025

TANK, Issue 105

Art, Propaganda and Resistance: ‘Self-Determination – A Global Perspective’

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Elephant Magazine

‘Self-Determination’, a core principle of the post-1945 international legal order – defined as the right of peoples to freely determine their political status and enshrined in Article 1 of the UN Charter – might seem an inapt and unusual title for an art exhibition. It has a legalistic specificity, which seems somewhat out of place in a gallery. However, this seemingly unusual choice serves to underscore the multifaceted intersections between legal and artistic realms, challenging conventional boundaries and prompting a reevaluation of the ways in which legal concepts manifest within the context of art and culture.

In Search of Władysław Broniewski
Warsaw
ArtReview

In the late Polish poet’s preserved home, sculptures by the artist Kenji Ide discreetly inhabit the space – and transcend time

Sonia Boyce on the Political Sounds and Symbols of “Bella Ciao”
Elephant Magazine

“Bella Ciao” has long since transcended its context as the de facto anthem of the partisans of the Italian Resistance in World War II. It has been sung and adapted (and sometimes rewritten)  by activists, trade unionists, and antifascists throughout the world, a universal protest anthem and a marker of antifascist political identity. In Sonia Boyce’s Benevolence at the Sala delle Capriate in the Palazzo della Ragione, in the heart of the old town of Bergamo, “Bella Ciao” echoes throughout the former courtroom, while six screens play a ten-minute looping video of three singers performing the piece in Bergamo’s main piazza.

Man Like... 

Essay on the history of grime music and the ‘Man Like…’ show by Boy Jerome and C-Dyer at Harlesden High Street in The Toe Rag