Frans Josef Petersson är sedan 2014 svensk redaktör för Kunstkritikk. Han är född 1977, boende i Stockholm och mångårig medarbetare på Aftonbladets Kultursida.
The 13th Gothenburg Biennial is an assembly kit for institutional conscience.
Somewhere between Black figuration and the late Picasso, the Swedish art season is looking for relevance.
Fascist, fool, or philosopher? Ian Hamilton Finlay still stirs the pot. At the centenary of his birth, a Stockholm show revisits the tensions at the heart of his work.
In Malmö, Kiki Smith delivers a profound case for art as a form of ecological and existential inquiry.
For all its racket, Moderna Museet’s Mike Kelley-show fails to speak to the current moment.
Now screen The Andalusian Dog uncensored.
Iconic scene in The Andalusian Dog edited out.
The Swedish government’s plan to create an institutional behemoth, Moderna, is ill-advised and reckless.
A new book uncovers the Nazi past of Swedens foremost postwar photographer.
The Apocalypse revisited, pioneering sound art, and an unsettling proposal marks the Swedish art season.
At the National Museum in Stockholm, art is reborn as art in enlightened dialogue with the past.
Allegations of sexual misconduct in a Vaginal Davis work at Moderna Museet raise questions about art’s toxic culture of privilege.
Louise Steiwer looks back on a year when grief was finally allowed to fill the halls of art.
A triennial resembling The Blob and the fear of meeting another person’s gaze ever again: 2025 has left its mark on Tommy Olsson.
Pure hypocrisy: Denmark’s Minister for Culture praises art and culture in the fight against AI while the budget for the National Collection of Photography is slashed.
Christine Antaya decorates her tree with bright colours and a newfound love of nonsense.
