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 spring is marked by aesthetic confidence and structural uncertainty.
Kunstkritikk’s Swedish editor on a year marked by fragile ways of seeing.
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.
Geopolitics looms over everything in Denmark. But not on the art scene, which is serving up glam-rock, food happenings, and solo shows featuring international heavyweights.
The Swedish spring is marked by aesthetic confidence and structural uncertainty.
This spring the Norwegian art scene is bursting with sci-fi, political vision, and largest-ever presentations of female artists.
Greenland’s art scene has arrived. Shamans assist the curators, and the world’s first-ever national gallery devoted to the art of an Indigenous People is taking shape in Nuuk.
