The Museum of Modern Art in New York has named Christophe Cherix as its subsequent director, succeeding Glenn Lowry, who has led the establishment for 3 many years. The New York Instances first reported the information on Friday afternoon.
Cherix has served as chief curator of MoMA’s prints and drawings division since 2013. His curatorial credit embody a spread of latest retrospectives which have obtained 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 12 months’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 biggest 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 Sixties and ’70s that he co-organized with Klaus Biesenbach.
In a letter obtained by the Instances, the leaders of MoMA’s board wrote, “Christophe’s sensible curatorial management in trendy and up to date artwork, sturdy relationships with artists, excellence in scholarship, internationally revered analysis and publications, and status for regular stewardship stood out as indispensable qualities to place the museum to satisfy the second. He rose to the highest of a powerful pool of worldwide candidates.”
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 group and a separate drawings group.
He first joined MoMA in 2007, having beforehand been curator of the Cupboard des estampes in Geneva.
Cherix will observe the conclusion of Glenn Lowry’s longtime leadership of MoMA. Lowry introduced plans to depart final 12 months, having led the museum by way of 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 known as him an “excellent curator who has demonstrated management in organizing exhibitions and dealing with MoMA’s intensive assortment of prints and illustrated books.”
Cherix is now the seventh individual ever to direct MoMA in its practically 100-year historical past.
ARTnews has reached out to MoMA for remark.
