Frans Josef Petersson är sedan 2014 svensk redaktör för Kunstkritikk. Han är född 1977, boende i Stockholm och mångårig medarbetare på Aftonbladets Kultursida.
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.
As new director of Konsthall C, Mariam Elnozahy will dive headfirst into the conflicts between art and religion.
The 12th Gothenburg Biennial is splendidly self-absorbed.
During the Swedish art autumn, political doom and gloom is met with a pensive artistic poise. Also, Danish artists of the moment make their way across Øresund.
Winds of change blew across Freetown Christiania this year, bringing Kunstkritikk’s editor in Copenhagen hope that Danish art will one day be renewed there.
Sex and death in Helsinki, meditative landscape painting in Oslo, and a glimpse of art’s future in Copenhagen. Artist Ernst Billgren gives us his top-three list.
A small gnome hiding inside a fountain pump sent Kunstkritikk’s Norwegian editor, Stian Gabrielsen, into a nostalgic fit.
Is Berlin losing its position as a haven for artists due to German repression of pro-Palestinian voices? Six Nordic artists and curators respond.
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