Lars Vilks
Acting
Biography
Lars Endel Roger Vilks is a Swedish concept artist, art critic, ph. d. of art science, author and debater. He is recognised for his controversial artwork Nimis, located in Kullaberg Nature Reserve, Sweden, alternatively in Vilk's created state of Ladonia, where his book Arx is also available. Other controversial works of art are his drawings of Muhammad as a roundabout dog and the so-called Judasuggan.
Known For
Trygdekontoret is a Norwegian themed talk show and debate program with Thomas Seltzer that aired on NRK 2009 - 2019.
Trygdekontoret talkshow
Behind the scenes of six of the greatest Swedish cultural upsets of our time. When the media storm blows hardest, it can be difficult to see what the core of the discussion really is and why the event has become so infected.
Skandal!
Terrorist attacks, riots, and gang rapes are striking at the very foundations of Europe. This is the story of a Danish expatriate and his quest to uncover the growing issues within the European society he left 15 years ago.
Killing Europe
Chamber Opera on Anna Odell's art project "Unknown Woman 2009-349701". The action begins on the opera stage. Followed by a film of the recorded 'psychosis' and police intervention at Liljeholmsbron, Stockholm, Sweden. St. Görans Hospital, the Emergency Room - a still image on a belt bed with a sound recording when Anna Odell reveals to the nurse that it was all fake.
In Madness We Believe
A portrait of Lars Vilks, the State Secretary of his own micro-nation Ladonia, a sculptor and a scandal-maker (as an art form), and professor of art theory. He is the only Swede, and also the only Latvian (by ancestry), with a price of $150 000 on his head. But perhaps he has been under-valued. A look at Ladonia, and at the nemesis of Swedish officialdom.
Head for 150 000 USD
A film about the creation of and thoughts behind artist Lars Vilk's sculpture "Nimis" at Kullaberg in Skåne. "Nimis" is a sculpture but also a conceptual artwork, part of Lars Vilk's investigation of art as an idea.