Magnus af Petersens

Magnus af Petersens (b. 1966) started at Moderna Museet in 2002 and curated Moderna Museet c/o Enkehuset (West African portrait photography, 2002), Odd Weeks: Peter Johansson, Moderna Museet c/o the House of Nobility with Henrik Håkansson, and Odd Weeks: The Last Picture (2003), In Focus: Björn Lövin, Fashination (together with Salka Hallström Bornold, Lars Nittve and Lars Nilsson, 2004) and Paul McCarthy Head Shop/Shop head (2006).

Magnus af Petersens is in charge of the exhibition series The 1st at Moderna, in which he himself curated Miriam Bäckström/Carsten Höller, Typ-O Writing with Style, Su-Mei Tse, Emily Jacir and Janet Cardiff.

In 1997–2002, Magnus af Petersens worked for Riksutställningar – Swedish Touring Exhibitions, where his curatorship included an exhition of Öyvind Fahlström’s prints and multiples, Inferno Paradiso with Alfredo Jaar, and History Now (jointly with Niclas Östlind). Prior to this, he was a curator at Färgfabriken.

He has also worked as a critic for magazines such as Hjärnstorm and was the chairman of the photography festival Xposeptember. He co-edited Moderna Museet’s collection catalogue, The Book (2004) together with Moderna Museet curator Cecilia Widenheim.