I Hope This Message Finds You Well, Hendrik Folkerts (S3/Ep4)

I Hope This Message Finds You Well

In the fourth episode of the season we talked to Hendrik Folkerts, Curator of International Contemporary Art and Head of Exhibitions at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. With Hendrik we talked about the ways his former experience in curating performance and public programmes influenced his current curatorial practice and approach to exhibition-making. He sees the exhibition as a relational mechanism, manifested by his interest in scenography, staging artworks and the way bodies move through space. We also talked about Hendrik’s approach to curating and his recent projects: Seven Rooms and a Garden: Rashid Johnson and the Moderna Museet collection, and a large-scale solo exhibition Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product. Hendrik Folkerts is Curator of International Contemporary Art and Head of Exhibitions at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Previously he served as the Dittmer Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago between 2017–2021. He was also a member of the curatorial team of documenta 14 and served in Amsterdam as curator of performance, film, and discursive programs at the Stedelijk Museum. If you have feedback we’d love to receive your email at [email protected]; you can also follow us on Instagram @ihopethismessage. The jingle was made by the artist Natalia Solzano and sound engineering by Nick Thomas. Graphic design by Christophe Clarijs. We have launched our I Hope This Message Finds You Well t-shirts, get them via our Everpress campaign: everpress.com/i-hope-this-message The episode was recorded in January 2024. Show notes: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam https://www.stedelijk.nl/en Curatorial Programme at De Appel Arts Centre https://www.deappel.nl/en/curatorial-programme/518-intro Seven Rooms and a Garden: Rashid Johnson and the Moderna Museet collection https://www.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/en/exhibitions/rashid-johnson-seven-rooms-and-a-garden/ University of Amsterdam https://www.uva.nl/en Rachel Esner Marga van Mechelen Miriam van Rijsingen Sophie Berrebi If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want to be Part of Your Revolution https://ificantdance.org/ Tino Seghal Maria Hassabi Alexandra Bachzetsis Stuart Comer Catherine Wood Sharon Hayes Wu Tsang Every Ocean Hughes Rashid Johnson Ann Goldstein The Sovereignty of Quiet by Kevin Quashie https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-sovereignty-of-quiet/9780813553108/ Vaginal Davis Nationalmuseum Stockholm https://www.nationalmuseum.se/en/ Index Stockholm https://indexfoundation.se/ Accelerator Stockholm https://acceleratorsu.art/en/frontpage/ Tensta konsthall ​​https://www.tenstakonsthall.se/en documenta 14 https://www.documenta14.de/en/ Adam Szymczyk The Art Institute of Chicago https://www.artic.edu/