Frans Josef Petersson er Kunstkritikks nordiske redaktør i Stockholm. Han er født i 1977, og er kunstkritiker i Aftonbladet og medlem av redaksjonsgruppen for tidsskriftet OEI. Arbeider for tiden på et prosjekt om konseptkunstens historie i Sverige.
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.
The new, comprehensively renovated Nationalmuseum in Stockholm fails in coming to terms with the institution’s colonialist heritage.
Stockholm’s gallery scene is transformed, while new directors take over at several of the major institutions. And one of Scandinavia’s oldest biennials is reawakened and rejuvenated.
What is the legacy of 1968? Children of the Children of the Revolution gathers five Nordic artists whose parents were active in the left movement of the 60s and 70s.
A new exhibition wants to convince the citizens of Malmö to support the decision to build a new Malmö Art Museum.
Documental 14 is about to go down in history as an exhibition whose weak realization was outmatched only by its lack of financial and administrative direction.
This year´s Skulptur Projekte Münster is invested in a socially paralyzed and market-oriented public sculpture not much different from the kind it was once inititated to counter.
Frank Bowling’s retrospective at Tate Britain marks the homecoming of a great contemporary painter.
Social Democrat Joy Mogensen becomes Denmark’s new minister of culture, curators named for Alt_CPH 2020, and other news from the Nordic art field.
In the midst of her largest retrospective to date, artist Zdenka Rusova talks about the singular question of her life and work.
This year’s Whitney Biennial focuses on autonomous personal narratives. The political aspects are embedded in the processing of material and form.
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