Frans Josef Petersson är sedan 2014 svensk redaktör för Kunstkritikk. Han är född 1977, boende i Stockholm och mångårig medarbetare på Aftonbladets Kultursida.
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.
In Malmö, Kiki Smith delivers a profound case for art as a form of ecological and existential inquiry.
Bonniers Konsthall develops Peter Weiss’s novel The Aesthetics of Resistance into an exhibition, but its core theme – class struggle – is conspicuously absent.
Kirsten Ortwed has spent a lifetime pushing sculpture to the edge. On the Danish isle of Bornholm, her art fits in almost suspiciously well.
Bonner Kunstverein show plays with split vision.
Three exhibitions – by turns glossy, quiet, and flashy – fit Copenhagen’s event-packed month like a glove.
