The Museum of Fashionable Artwork (MoMA) in New York has introduced that it’s selling curator Christophe Cherix to be its new director.
The announcement follows a six-month worldwide search after the museum’s present director, Glenn Lowery, introduced that he would step down from MoMA’s high publish after main the museum for 3 a long time.
Ed Ruscha and Christophe Cherix in 2023.
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Cherix joined MoMA—one of many world’s strongest arts establishments— in 2007 after serving as curator of the prints on the Musée d’artwork et d’histoire in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2013, he was named MoMA’s Robert Lehman Basis chief curator of drawings and prints. Throughout his 18-year tenure at MoMA, the Swiss-born curator has overseen vital acquisitions and mounted exhibitions together with final yr’s critically-acclaimed ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN, as nicely reveals on the work of Betye Saar, Adrian Piper, Marcel Broodthaers, Yoko Ono and Jasper Johns.
MoMA’s board unanimously confirmed Cherix’s appointment, which was introduced to employees at the moment, in response to the New York Occasions.
‘Christophe’s good curatorial management in fashionable and modern artwork, deep perception and fervour for MoMA’s assortment, and repute for regular stewardship stood out as indispensable qualities to satisfy the second because the museum’s subsequent director,’ board chair Marie-Josée Kravis stated in a press launch.
The directorship will mark Cherix’s first time main an arts establishment. He’ll formally begin as director in September, the month Lowry deliberate to step down.
‘MoMA has lengthy been a frontrunner in embracing new types of expression, amplifying the voices of artists from across the globe, and fascinating the broadest audiences onsite and on-line,’ Cherix stated in a press release.
‘Because the museum approaches its centennial, my highest precedence is to help its distinctive employees and be certain that their distinctive potential to navigate the ever-evolving current continues to thrive.’
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