The Museum of Trendy Artwork in New York has named Christophe Cherix as its subsequent director, succeeding Glenn Lowry, who has led the establishment for 3 a long time. The New York Instances first reported the information on Friday afternoon.
Cherix begins in his new place this September. He has served as chief curator of MoMA’s prints and drawings division since 2013.
“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 mentioned in a press release. “Because the Museum approaches its centennial, my highest precedence is to help its distinctive employees and make sure that their distinctive potential to navigate the ever-evolving current continues to thrive.”
His curatorial credit embody a spread of current retrospectives which have acquired widespread reward. In 2023, there was his Ed Ruscha retrospective, undertaken with Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork director Michael Govan, for which Cherix personally facilitated the revival of the artist’s not often seen 1970 Chocolate Room set up, which debuted at that yr’s Venice Biennale. And in 2018, there was a retrospective for Adrian Piper, co-organized with David Platzker and Connie Butler, that was briefly the most important exhibition ever mounted by the establishment.
With Manuel Borja-Villel, he additionally organized a 2016 Marcel Broodthaers retrospective at MoMA, in addition to a survey of Yoko Ono’s artwork of the Nineteen Sixties and ’70s that he co-organized with Klaus Biesenbach.
Marie-Josée Kravis, the chair of MoMA’s board, mentioned in a press release, “Christophe’s good curatorial management in fashionable and up to date artwork, deep perception and fervour for MoMA’s assortment, and repute for regular stewardship stood out as indispensable qualities to fulfill the second because the Museum’s subsequent director. We’re thrilled that after a rigorous world search, the Trustees voted unanimously to nominate Christophe, and that he accepted the appointment.”
Previous to taking the reins on the drawings and prints division, he led MoMA’s prints and illustrated books division. The present drawings and prints division was the results of a merger between the prints and illustrated books staff and a separate drawings staff.
He first joined MoMA in 2007, having beforehand been curator of the Cupboard des estampes on the Musée d’artwork et d’histoire in Geneva.
Cherix will observe the conclusion of Glenn Lowry’s longtime management of MoMA. Lowry introduced plans to depart final yr, having led the museum by two renovations and one growth. He has directed MoMA since 1995.
When Cherix was appointed chief curator of prints and illustrated books by MoMA in 2010, Lowry referred to as him an “excellent curator who has demonstrated management in organizing exhibitions and dealing with MoMA’s in depth assortment of prints and illustrated books.”
Cherix is now the seventh particular person ever to direct MoMA in its practically 100-year historical past.
In a press release, Lowry mentioned, “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 following director of the Museum. Within the months forward, we are going to work collectively to make sure a easy and profitable transition. Christophe is a gifted and proficient curator, and I Iook ahead to seeing the Museum evolve and thrive below his ready path.”
