The Vancouver Artwork Gallery (VAG) lately confirmed the departure of CEO and government director Anthony Kiendl amid uncertainty about its future.
The official assertion from the VAG’s board of trustees mentioned the explanation for Kiendl’s departure was the pursuit of “different skilled and private pursuits”. It additionally praised Kiendl for his work throughout a troublesome interval. “Below his management, the gallery navigated its manner by means of the Covid-19 pandemic, reworked its programming and has grown its donor base, membership and attendance. He has superior Indigenous reconciliation and helped safe lead funding for the gallery’s new residence.”
Eva Respini, deputy director and director of curatorial packages, and Sirish Rao, senior director of public engagement and studying, would be the gallery’s interim’s leaders.
The Vancouver Solar first reported the information of the Kiendl’s departure.
Kiendl joined the gallery as its chief in August 2020. Throughout Kiendl’s time as CEO government director, the gallery ready to relocated to a brand new constructing within the metropolis’s downtown. Nonetheless, that plan for a design by Herzog & de Meuron was cancelled final December after the funds rose from C$400 million to C$600 million. The associated fee for the cancelled venture was C$60 million, based on The Artwork Newspaper.
The information of Kiendl’s departure additionally follows the VAG’s announcement in January that the gallery would search a less complicated, inexpensive new residence by means of an invite to 14 Canadian architectural corporations to use to design the brand new gallery. The Artwork Newspaper studies that the shortlisted names included the Toronto-based agency Hariri Pontarini Architects (which is designing the brand new Marianne and Edward Gibson Artwork Museum at Simon Fraser College) and the Vancouver-based agency Patkau Architects (which designed the Audain Artwork Museum in Whistler).
Kiendl will nonetheless curate the exhibition “Lucy Raven: Murderers Bar”, set to open at VAG on April 18.
