Frans Josef Petersson är sedan 2014 svensk redaktör för Kunstkritikk. Han är född 1977, boende i Stockholm och mångårig medarbetare på Aftonbladets Kultursida.
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.
The Nordic Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale will be inspired by an ancient Chinese art form.
In Malmö, Tal R and Mamma Andersson cozy up with nineteenth-century renegade Carl Fredrik Hill in a fun show that struggles to make a lasting impression.
What does it mean to live in the shadow of a dictator? This question haunts Mohammed Sami’s first major institutional show at Camden Art Centre in London.
At Bonniers Konsthall, the late Peter Geschwind opens a door to the social affability of the 1990s.
The Swedish art world prepares for a shift in cultural policy, and eight shows you must see this spring.
Three exhibitions which made a lingering impression on Kunstkritikk’s Swedish editor.
Maya Eizin Öijer and Andréhn-Schiptjenko celebrate thirty years together with a killer show about death.
Iran’s cries are being heard all over the world. Is the hope for change alive? Artists in the Nordics react to the protests following the murder of Mahsa Jina Amini.
Gems and bonanzas light up the Swedish art autumn.
Eddie Figge and Agnieszka Polska reach stratospheric heights in the basement of the Workers’ Education Association in Stockholm.
Art criticism is losing its footing amid obsessive demands for distribution and relevance. This is a problem for art too.
‘We stand on the shoulders of those who came before us,’ say Julia Rodrigues and Francesca Astesani, the curators behind Charlottenborg’s anniversary exhibition.
At Accelerator in Stockholm, Lisa Tan dissects a contemporary neurotic with great accuracy.
Pussy Riot delivers a frantic and riveting exhibition at Louisiana, but it runs the risks of becoming a short-term fix.
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