Frans Josef Petersson är sedan 2014 svensk redaktör för Kunstkritikk. Han är född 1977, boende i Stockholm och mångårig medarbetare på Aftonbladets Kultursida.
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.
For all its racket, Moderna Museet’s Mike Kelley-show fails to speak to the current moment.
Now screen The Andalusian Dog uncensored.
Iconic scene in The Andalusian Dog edited out.
Nordic nostalgia and a fraught sponsorship collaboration at Market Art Fair in Stockholm.
Madeleine Andersson, Arvida Byström, and Tobias Bradford on embodiment and identity in the age of AI.
The inaugural exhibition of the New Museum’s expansion is undone by an inability to leave anything out.
A European tour of works by Frida Kahlo brings attention to the uncertain future of a collection rooted in Mexico’s cultural history.
