GOTHENBURG.- During the winter, Göteborgs Konsthall presents the second part of the project Victims and Martyrs with several national and international artists. In our time, victims and martyrs have been the subject of wide media attention. We are constantly fed reports of individuals and groups suffering under oppression, injustices and conflicts—circumstances linked to victims and, in an extended sense, potentially also to martyrdom. The exhibition Victims and Martyrs focuses on the concepts’ complexity and inner contradictions, which frequently leads to the break-up of the borders between victims and perpetrators. The participating artists interpret, activate and stage the landscape in which victimisation and martyrdom take place. A number of interventions focus the conditions that make it possible to maintain and reproduce the roles today. Why do some historical figures appear as victims and martyrs to so