Frans Josef Petersson är sedan 2014 svensk redaktör för Kunstkritikk. Han är född 1977, boende i Stockholm och mångårig medarbetare på Aftonbladets Kultursida.
Moderna Museet’s presentation of the acclaimed modernist sculptor makes the enduring radicalness of his work strikingly evident.
The debate about new anti-racist policies at the University of Art, Craft, and Design in Stockholm reveals art’s embrace of a representative civil service culture.
Magnus Karlsson Gallery gives a rare and extended glance at Bruno Knutman’s particular form of radical play in a show focused exclusively on his drawings.
Despite rather uncertain prospects, these are the art events we look forward to in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
Which were the most crackerjack exhibitions of 2020 according to Kunstkritikk’s Swedish editor?
Viktor Kopp’s new exhibition in Stockholm reframes the dichotomy between sensual and intellectual pleasure. He also returns to a favourite subject: chocolate.
Academic research is driving art in a direction where it will require shock treatment to be resurrected.
After a ten-year hiatus, Kristina Eriksson is back with a new set of paintings about the main feature of human inadequacy – that we are all going to die.
After a tumultuous start of the year, the autumn season is back on track in Sweden. Yet, resentment is bubbling under the surface.
Lina Bjerneld shows how the current state of exception is an extension of yesterday’s political malaise.
Louisiana’s Nancy Spero retrospective mishandles the legacy of a significant feminist artist.
Can Jarl Ingvarsson deliver us from late capitalism’s pandemic fatigue?
An exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art brings together the distant worlds of art and gaming, without subsuming one to the other.
Italian duo Francesco Urbano Ragazzi will curate Lofoten International Art Festival 2022.
Eddie Figge’s paintings from the 1989 São Paulo Biennale should be shown in schools as proof that our planet has had visitors from a distant civilisation.
For twenty-five years, artist and writer Leif Holmstrand has worked with experiences of psychosis, prostitution, and transsexuality in a highly eclectic practice. Now, he has collected it all in a new book.
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