Frans Josef Petersson är sedan 2014 svensk redaktör för Kunstkritikk. Han är född 1977, boende i Stockholm och mångårig medarbetare på Aftonbladets Kultursida.
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.
Astrid Svangren’s new show in Stockholm is a compelling return to figuration.
A wave of new alternative exhibition venues offer glimmers of light as Sweden enters the gloomy season.
Do you fancy yourself an aesthete? Do you love finely tuned museum shows? Do you fetishise Indigenous art? Then the 60th Venice Biennale might be for you!
Berlinde De Bruyckere gives the Stockholm audience a timely lesson in humility.
The National Museum is in a crisis and a call to support Gaza divides the art world but everyone joins hands for the sake of queer- and performance art.
Who was nice and who was naughty? Kunstkritikk’s Swedish editor shares his 2023 list.
Moderna Museet has relaunched its collection in three consecutive shows. Systematic art history is out, quasi-messianic individualism is in.
Inuit must learn from tradition and living memory in order to look ahead, was the message at a recent seminar on Greenlandic performance traditions.
Hannah Ryggen remains the most compelling part of the Hannah Ryggen Triennial.
Carola Grahn brings a pitch-perfect wit to Sámi feminism at Liljevalchs in Stockholm.
Copenhagen is currently home to several semi-aquatic reptiles. They speak volumes about attitudes and mummification. And of what an exhibition may be.
