Through four case studies, this publication brings to the fore decolonial and other non-hegemonic approaches to the profession of curating in Sweden from the 1960s to the early 2000s, highlighting the work of Carlos Capelán, Elisabet Haglund, Gunilla Lundahl, and Jan-Erik Lundström.

Conversations with the curators, artists and participants from some of the lesser-known public art exhibitions of the 1980s and 90s in Europe and the US, which de-monumentalized public art, dealt with political, gender and social asymmetries, and introduced forms of non-extractivist curating.