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Ulrika Sparre
Jag är störst /I am great, Installation (2007)
The piece was going to be shown in Tumba Centrum and the project space of Botkyrka Hall of Arts (Botkyrka Konsthall) in September 2007.
One week before the opening the artspace said they could not s.. | read more »
Opposed by Botkyrka Hall of Arts (Botkyrka Konsthall)
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Louzla Darabi
Scene d´Amour, Painting (2005)
The painting "Scene d'Amour," by Louzla Darabi was part of an exhibition at the Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg in Sweden. The exhibtion about AIDS called NO NAME FEVER: AIDS in the age of globa.. | read more »
Opposed by A number of Swedish Muslim and The Museum for World Cultures in Gothenburg Cultures in Göteborg
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Gerhard Haderer
The Life of Jesus, Cartoon book (2005)
Gerhard Haderer Austrian author and cartoon artist was sentence to sex months in prison for his book "The Life of Jesus" by a Greek Court. The trial was initiated when the Greek Orthodox Church compla.. | read more »
Opposed by Greek Orthodox Church and a Greek Court
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Gunilla Sköld Feiler & Dror Feiler
Snow White and the Madness of Truth, Installation (2004)
On Friday the 16 of January 2004 during the opening evening of the exhibition "Making Differences” in The Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm the Israeli ambassador in Sweden attacked the inst.. | read more »
Opposed by The Israeli Ambassador in Sweden
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The Militant Graffiti Artists of Stockholm
Kidnapping and decapitating of fiber-glass cow, activism (2004)
Members of The Militant Graffiti Artists of Stockholm kidnapped one of the cows from the ongoing Cow Parade in Stockholm. The Militant Graffiti Artists demanded in a video cassette sent to the paper t.. | read more »
Opposed by The International CowParade
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Kjartan Slettemark
NIXONVISIONS removed, Print (2004)
Three collages by Kjartan Slettermark were removed from the foreign affairs committee meeting room in the Oslo parliament building, in october 2004, by Members of Parliament saying they were shocking .. | read more »
Opposed by Norwegian parliament (Stortinget)
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Sture Johannesson
Counterclockwise Circumambulation, Installation (2004)
Three policemen came to the exhibition at Lund Konsthall and cut down and confiscated the hemp plants of the installation just days before the opening. This blunt act was authorized by the public pros.. | read more »
Opposed by The local police and local prosecutor, Britt-Mari Ströms
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Mat Vaassen
Three posters by Mat Vaassen, Poster (2002)
Three posters were shown in the anniversary exhibition of the Kunsthaus Essen. An anonymous person wrote a protest letter to the Kunsthaus, to the police, the public prosecutor, the sponsors, the mayo.. | read more »
Opposed by anonymous person from the audience, the police and the public prosecutor.
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Dorota Nieznalska
Pasja (Passion), Installation (2002)
The subject of dispute between the artist and the radical nationalist party, the League of Polish Families, was her installation “Passion”, in which the artist had placed on an object in the shape of .. | read more »
Opposed by Member of the League of Polish Families (an ultra right-wing political party)
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Ron Haviv
Blood and Honey, Photography (2002)
A group of ten or so young men wearing T-shirts with the words "Radovan Karadzic - Serbian hero" written on them prevented the opening of the exibition in Kraguevac.
Displaying cards that read "Fai.. | read more »
Opposed by Serbian Nationalists and City Authorities
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Palle Torsson
Pippi Examples, Video (2001)
Before Pippi Examples was "censored" the Swedish magazine BON (nr 2. 2001) published a interview with Palle Torsson were the video was discussed alongside stills images from the video. The intention w.. | read more »
Opposed by SF (Swedish Filmindustry)
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Violeta Gomez
Alicia en el pais del amor (Alice in Loveland), Art Photography (2001)
In 2001, I held an exhibition titled "Alice in Loveland" at the Museo de Siyasa, in Cieza (Spain). It consisted of a series of photographs of female children (aged 7 to 10), most of which had been pre.. | read more »
Opposed by Concepcion Ferrer following a report from a Spanish Army officer
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Marianne Lindberg De Geer
Jag tänker på Lena Cronqvist (I am thinking of Lena Cronqvist), Print (2001)
After the exhibition opened and Cronqvist saw a picture in the newspapers. She felt offended and reported the works to the police and tried to sue Lindberg De Geer for copyright infringement. Cronqvis.. | read more »
Opposed by Lena Cronqvict and the National organization of practicing artists in Sweden (KRO)
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Jes Brinch
Shove your society up your ass, Installation (2001)
The work "Shove your society up your ass" by Jes Brink was censored by the social democratic municipality of Albertslund in Denmark. It was stopped because they believed the work could be considered.. | read more »
Opposed by The social democratic municipality of Albertslund in Denmark
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Pål Hollender
Pelle Polis (Pelle Police), Video (1998)
After having set a date for the broadcasting of Pelle Polis, Swedish
Television cancelled the screening in the very last minute. The official reason why, was that Swedish Television could not support.. | read more »
Opposed by Swedish Television / Per-Olof Lindberg (Pelle Polis)
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0100101110101101.org
Vaticano.org: The First Internet Coup, Internet Coup (1998)
The biggest part of visitors doesn't know that the Vatican, being legally a state, owns its own national domain name extension ".va", and therefore digits the more familiar ".org" one. Like the Pope, .. | read more »
Opposed by Vaticano.vt
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Bjarne Melgaard
Soft Core, Installation (1998)
The Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet published a provoking article about the work “Art or Child pornography?” ("Konst eller barnporr?" 980531). The article was tendentious, reproducing the images with a ma.. | read more »
Opposed by A Neo-Nazi group, the museum director and persons in media and child advocacy groups
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Tobias Bernstrup and Palle Torsson
Join hands, Website (1995)
Join hands was published on the web in 1995 and shortly after censored. Well, it was censored by the server administrators at SICS (Swedish Institute for Computer Science) who thought that parts of t.. | read more »
Opposed by SICS (Swedish Institute for Computer Science)
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Lars Vilks
Ladonia (Nimis, Arx, Omfalos), Sculpture (1980)
Constructions of wood and concrete were built in a nature reserve from 1980 (the work still continues). The pieces were sentenced as illegal. A complicated law case has been going on since 1982. The a.. | read more »
Opposed by Swedish Authorities (County Administration Board, Courts, Krapperupsstiftelsen (Land Owner), Enforcement Officer
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Leif Eriksson
Svanberg/Eriksson T 125/77, Serigraphy (1977)
My serigraphy ”Äkta max walters?” 1977, (”Genuine max walters?”), was accepted by the jury of three, Per Bjurström, director of graphic and drawing department at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Olle Johns.. | read more »
Opposed by Max Walter Svanberg, Swedish surrealist
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Sture Johannesson and Ann-Charlotte Johannesson
Germany through time, Exhibition (1976)
The exhibition "Germany through time" at Kulturhuset in Stockholm about the restrictions of paragraph 88a was entirely censored and stopped two days after the opening. Sture Johannesson made a poster .. | read more »
Opposed by The culture house and exhibition space Kulturhuset, Stockholm
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Sture Johannesson
“Revolution Means Revolutionary Consciousness”, Poster (1968)
The poster "Underground" titled “Revolution Means Revolutionary Consciousness” also known as "The Hashish Girl" was made for the art exhibition at Lunds art hall in 1968. The poster was thought so pro.. | read more »
Opposed by Arts council of Lund
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Carl Johan de Geer
SKÄNDA FLAGGAN (Desecrate the flag), Serigraphy (1967)
The Serigraphy was confiscated and destroyed by the police. De Geer was convicted by the court of appeal for desecration the national symbol and for agitation.
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Opposed by Swedish authorities
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