Frans Josef Petersson är sedan 2014 svensk redaktör för Kunstkritikk. Han är född 1977, boende i Stockholm och mångårig medarbetare på Aftonbladets Kultursida.
The international exhibition at the 57th Venice biennial makes an important, if not entirely convincing, case for the artist’s right to sleep at work and heal the planet through dance.
If Trump heralds a new world order, the critical models of contemporary art must also be reinvented. We need a communist poetics, a poetic principle for the political struggle.
An exhibition at Malmö Konstmuseum charts the effects of industrialization on Swedish society. It is in the places abandoned by history that our true future becomes visible.
The Berlin Biennale hopes that digital capitalism vill save us from the historical exhaustion of contemporary art. Result: aesthetic formalism and political paralysis.
Hans Andersson at Gallery Lars Bohman and Rafaël Rozendaal at Carl Kostyál both look back to the historical avant garde, but have opposed views on today’s screen-based visual culture.
The Moderna Exhibition inventories artists from the Baltic region, abstract imagery dominates at the galleries, while several group exhibitions adress contemporary political issues.
Elastic Gallery moves from Malmö to Stockholm, and the history of Swedish photography is in focus at exhibitions in both Gothenburg, Stockholm, and Malmö.
Counter-Production (Part 2) at Index recreates in film an exhibition that was shown at Generali Foundation last autumn, but without critical friction or a meaningful shift in perspective.
Last weekend Diana Baldon presented her first project as director of Index in Stockholm. Kunstkritikk met up with her to talk about her debut and forthcoming projects.
Maria Lind brushes aside criticism of her collaboration with the Lundin-owned Bukowskis for Abstract Possible. “The project is not about taking a position,” Lind stated during Thursday’s debate at Tensta Konsthall.
Hannah Ryggen remains the most compelling part of the Hannah Ryggen Triennial.
Carola Grahn brings a pitch-perfect wit to Sámi feminism at Liljevalchs in Stockholm.
Copenhagen is currently home to several semi-aquatic reptiles. They speak volumes about attitudes and mummification. And of what an exhibition may be.
Matias Faldbakken will create memorial to the 2011 terror attack in Oslo.
