Frans Josef Petersson är sedan 2014 svensk redaktör för Kunstkritikk. Han är född 1977, boende i Stockholm och mångårig medarbetare på Aftonbladets Kultursida.
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian seduces the eye and keeps the mind guessing.
In election-year Sweden, the art scene is politically ambitious but institutionally cautious.
In Vienna, Mumok’s new director Fatima Hellberg is quietly reshaping how we move through the museum. And how the museum moves through us.
Moderna Museet’s painting bonanza glitters, but leaves little room for sustained looking.
Nordic nostalgia and a fraught sponsorship collaboration at Market Art Fair in Stockholm.
At Moderna Museet Malmö, John Skoog asks if beauty can endure the crude logic of power.
At Henie Onstad, Ann Lislegaard’s brooding, apocalyptic tone feels less unsettling than predictable, trading genuine tension for a well-worn sense of gloom.
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.
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian seduces the eye and keeps the mind guessing.
Kateryna Lysovenko turns violence into tenderness.
Maria Pasenau is raw, in every sense of the word.
Five great works in and around Copenhagen right now.
