Thinking Through Painting collects over 400 pages of commissioned texts and
transcribed conversations gathered during numerous artist studio visits on the
uneasy relationship between painting and the contemporary institutional and
theoretical art scene. Initiated in 2009 following a discussion between Swedish
artist Jan Rydén and curator Jonatan Habib Engqvist - and together with the
artists Kristina Bength and Sigrid Sandstrom, Rydén and Engqvist embarked on a
project to investigate painting as a way of thinking. Taking the artist's perspective
as a point of departure, each group was composed of a curator/philosopher and
three theoretically-minded painters who each have different points of departure
and dissimilar painting practices. Contributors include over 40 artists, theorists,
curators and critics active in Stockholm, Oslo, and New York including director
Lisa Phillips, artist David Reed, philosopher Jonna Bornemark, art historian Terry
Myers, along with many more.

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