Mattias Alkberg

The artist and poet Mattias Alkberg often performs a kind of balancing act on the precipice of ruin, on both a personal and a societal level. Faced with this, he takes dual positions: he welcomes the catastrophe but does so with stubborn resistance. He never gives up when it comes to giving up once again. Now he comes to Blackbox, Studio Acusticum

 

With over three decades in the service of music, Mattias Alkberg is one of Sweden's most uncompromising and headstrong voices. As a poet, punk, pop craftsman and rock icon, he has constantly moved in the borderland between the brutally honest and the unexpectedly beautiful – often in the same breath.

 

Alkberg has released over 30 albums over the years, both as a solo artist and with various bands. He has also done a number of stage performances: Alla är sämst 2018, Om känslor och sant skit 2019 and Mattias Alkbergs Begravning på Dramaten 2013 which also became a concert film on SVT.