Fredrik Svensk is Editor-in-Chief of Paletten Art Journal, a independent critic and essayist. He holds a Lecture position in art theory at Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg. In his research and teaching he has mostly focused on biopolitical aspects of art and its different functions within colonial and post-colonial modernity. He is a member of the research collective OTCOP, investigating the working conditions in the contemporary art industry. His essays has been published in journals such as Glänta, Ord&Bild and Site Magazine and in books by artists such as Bodil Furu and Elke Marhöfer. Svensk writes art criticism for Aftonbladet, Kunstkritikk and Artforum has also translated texts by authors such as Gilles Deleuze.