Frans Josef Petersson är sedan 2014 svensk redaktör för Kunstkritikk. Han är född 1977, boende i Stockholm och mångårig medarbetare på Aftonbladets Kultursida.
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.
As new director of Konsthall C, Mariam Elnozahy will dive headfirst into the conflicts between art and religion.
Cecilie Norgaard at O-Overgaden is painting about painting in the best possible sense.
Nikolaj Kunsthal tries to turn Lars von Trier’s films into visual art, but ends up advertising for the genius.
What happens when the body falls apart? Goldin+Senneby are known for their brainy conceptualism. Now they have created their most personal exhibition yet.
Ghost photography has resurfaced in museum image banks.
