The Museum of Trendy Artwork (MoMA) introduced on Friday that Christophe Cherix will turn out to be its subsequent director, starting this September. The Swiss curator, who’s presently MoMA’s chief curator of drawings and prints, first joined the museum in 2007. He’s set to succeed Glenn D. Lowry, who has led the establishment since 1995. Lowry will depart MoMA as its longest-serving director thus far.
In his tenure on the establishment, Cherix has curated landmark exhibitions together with “ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN” in 2023, “Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions” in 2018, and “Yoko Ono: One Girl Present” in 2015. He has additionally overseen acquisitions of main collections which have expanded MoMA’s holdings considerably.
“Christophe’s sensible curatorial management in trendy and up to date artwork, deep perception and fervour for MoMA’s assortment, and popularity for regular stewardship stood out as indispensable qualities to fulfill the second because the museum’s subsequent director,” mentioned Marie-Josée Kravis, the chair of MoMA’s board, in a press assertion accompanying the announcement.
Born in Switzerland, Cherix studied on the College of Geneva. Previous to becoming a member of MoMA, he was a curator at Musée d’artwork et d’histoire in Geneva. “MoMA has lengthy been a pacesetter in embracing new types of expression, amplifying the voices of artists from across the globe, and interesting the broadest audiences onsite and on-line,” he mentioned in a press assertion. “Because the Museum approaches its centennial, my highest precedence is to help its distinctive employees and make sure that their distinctive skill to navigate the ever-evolving current continues to thrive.”
Since September 2024, when Lowry introduced his intention to step down, hypothesis over the id of his successor has been widespread within the artwork world. Thelma Golden, the director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Jessica Morgan, director of the Dia Artwork Basis, had been regarded as amongst these in rivalry for the job.
In 2018, Lowry was accepted by MoMA’s board to increase his tenure previous 2020, when he was beforehand set to retire, based mostly on a museum coverage requiring senior employees to retire at age 65.
“I’ve been privileged to work with Christophe for greater than fifteen years at MoMA, and I’m delighted that the board has chosen him to be the subsequent director of the museum. Within the months forward, we are going to work collectively to make sure a clean and profitable transition,” Lowry mentioned in a press assertion. “Christophe is a gifted and gifted curator, and I Iook ahead to seeing the Museum evolve and thrive beneath his in a position path.”
