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 specialises in commissioning and an artist-centred curatorial approach that highlights notions of care, hospitality, and process-based exhibition-making.

Hendrik Folkerts was invited for a curatorial research trip in 2022.

Hendrik Folkerts. Photo: courtesy of the curator.