Hendrik Folkerts

Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Curator of International Contemporary Art and Head of Exhibitions

Hendrik Folkerts is a curator of International Contemporary Art and Head of Exhibitions at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Prior to this, he held the position of Dittmer Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago from 2017 to 2022, Curator at documenta 14, Kassel/Athens from 2014 to 2017, and served as curator of Performance, Film, and Discursive Programs at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam from 2010 to 2015. Folkerts specializes in commissioning and process-based exhibition-making. He has curated numerous solo and international group exhibitions as well as collection presentations, new commissions, and program series, anchored in the expanded field of performance and building on feminist, queer, and anti-colonial histories of art.

Hendrik Folkerts visited Vienna on an individual research trip in January 2025 and in 2022.

Hendrik Folkerts. Photo: courtesy the curator.