Frans Josef Petersson är sedan 2014 svensk redaktör för Kunstkritikk. Han är född 1977, boende i Stockholm och mångårig medarbetare på Aftonbladets Kultursida.
Louisiana’s Nancy Spero retrospective mishandles the legacy of a significant feminist artist.
Can Jarl Ingvarsson deliver us from late capitalism’s pandemic fatigue?
Have women artists ever been as prominent as in Sweden during the spring of 2020?
Which were the most memorable artworks, exhibitions and books of 2019? Frans Josef Petersson is editor of Kunstkritikk in Sweden.
Iris Smeds’s exhibition at Bonnier’s Konsthall is an exorcism of neoliberal exceptionalism.
In Sweden, authors like Ursula Le Guin, Valerie Solanas, and the Danish poet Inger Christensen set a literary tone for an auspicious autumn season.
Frank Bowling’s retrospective at Tate Britain marks the homecoming of a great contemporary painter.
Local artists take on climate change in Boden, a Nordic Biennial in Örebro, and a Golden Lion-winning filmmaker in Stockholm. This is the Swedish art summer.
A new exhibition rehabilitates an overlooked Swedish modernist, for whom contemplation, rest and sensual pleasure were essential capacities of modern painting.
In Sweden, the spring season is dominated by some of Norway’s most acclaimed artists. And at Nationalmuseum, the Danish golden age is recreated.
For the 16th Luleå Biennial, the darkness of the polar night is imbued with dreams of new forms of aesthetic and political resistance.
At almost 80 years of age, Swedish sculptor Lars Kleen aspires to renew his medium at every turn. His most recent work evokes the dire consequences of climate change.
Decolonising means changing the fundamental material relations that define our lives.
The rush to make online substitutes for events derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic promises an influx of viewing technologies that approximate real life.
The 22nd Biennale of Sydney is a highly located and physical exhibition experience which, after being open for just 10 days, can only be accessed online.
The most important artists of the 2010’s were the ones who helped us to navigate through private and social neuroses, perversions, and psychoses.
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