Magnus af Petersens
(Freelance — formerly Chief Curator, Whitechapel Gallery, London; Director, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm)
Currently operating as a freelance curator, he recently organized an exhibition of abstract painting at Konstnärshuset in Stockholm — which is precisely the signal one looks for. His record at Moderna Museet includes a major survey called Explosion: Painting as Action, tracing the medium from 1947 to the present through Klein, Pollock, Rauschenberg. This is a curator who thinks about painting as event and as surface simultaneously. He carries heavyweight institutional credentials but has stepped free of the institutional apparatus. A single exhibition is exactly the scale at which a man in his position operates with pleasure rather than obligation. Highest probability of yes.