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Chair (since 2009) and faculty (since 2006) of the London the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Berlin
Consortium. In 2006, Marko Daniel joined Tate Modern in next April. The art historian was re-
London as Curator Public Programmes, managing the sponsible for operational tasks at the
museum's public programmes team. Since 2011 he has Georg Kolbe Museum for several
held the post of Convenor of Public Programmes for the years. Since 2008 she has been in
two London sites of Tate, Tate Modern and Tate Britain. charge of the Museum of Modern Art
Amongst other projects, Marko Daniel was co-curator Wörlen in Passau, Bavaria.
with Matthew Gale and Teresa Montaner of „Joan Mirò:
The Ladder of Escape“ shown between 2011 and 2012 at New museum directior of the Museo
Tate Modern in London, the National Gallery of Art in Sa Bassa Blanca in Alcudia, Mallorca
Washington in the US, and at the Fundaciòn Joan Mirò, is: José Tono Martínez (photo: museum). Martinez found-
Barcelona. ed the Madrid magazine La Luna and directed it from 1985-
1987. He held numerous executive
The supervisory board of Witte de positions in various cultural busi-
With Center for Contemporary Art nesses, including Washington DC
in Rotterdam announces the ap- (1988-1993, Spain `92 Foundation),
pointment of Sofia Hernandez Buenos Aires (1997-2001, ICI / AECI,
Chong Cuy (Photo: Museum/Zach Spanish Cultural Center), Tangier
Hyman) as its new director, effec- (2003-2006, Tangier-Tarifa Observa-
tive January 1, 2018. She succeeds tory), Santo Domingo de los Colora-
Defne Ayas, who has been the di- dos, Ecuador (1996 , ONG books for
rector since 2012. Ayas leaves her the world), Madrid (2005-2008 State
position after having led the insti- Society for International Exhibitions
tution successfully for two terms (SEEI), Spanish Pavilion in Zaragoza
of three years, the maximum for a 2008. From 2008 to 2011 he was the Executive Director of
director, according to Witte de With's governance code. the Foundation for Architecture and Society, and in 2009
Hernandez Chong Cuy comes to the position from Colec- and 2010 he was the Executive Director and curator for
ciòn Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, where she has been its the application of Segovia as European Capital of Culture,
curator of contemporary art since 2011. Originally from 2016. Between 2011 and 2015, as director and founder, he
Mexico, she has also developed initiatives independently led the CentroCentro Cibeles de Cultura and Ciudadanía
from teaching, writing and publishing. She most recently event program in Madrid, with a focus on the art collec-
organized „The Neighbors“, an exhibition series at The tion and patronage program. His last exhibition was "When
Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York, and „Let's Walk the Muse strikes: Supertangibles, 15 projects / 17" in the
Together“, a survey exhibition of Mario Garcia Torres at Palacio Quintanar of Segovia.
Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, the institution which she
directed in 2009-2010. She was artistic director and chief Jean Baptiste Desbois
curator of the 9th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre took the decision to set
(2013) and an agent of DOCUMENTA[13] in Kassel. Prior down after three years as
to this, in New York, she was curator and programs man- Ecsite Treasurer. Tapio
ager at Art in General and associate curator at Americas Koivu from Heureka, The
Society. Finnish Science Centre
(Vantaa, Finland), already
Fritz Backhaus will be new department director „Col- Board member, took over
lections“ at Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin. The as Treasurer on 1 Novem-
historian had been for many years deputy directior of ber 2017 (photos: spokes)
the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt and was in charge of the
the new permanent exhibition at Museum Judengasse The influential German art historian
and Palais Rothschild. Beatrix Ruf (57, photo: Stedelijk Mu-
seum / Robin de Puy) resigned as
From 2019, Sandra Richter (photo: director of the Stedelijk Museum
Nicole Alexander) will be the succes- Amsterdam. She became the subject
sor of Ulrich Raulff at Deutsches of gossip and press research about
Literaturarchiv Marbach. The liter- several unauthorized sideline activi-
ary scholar had a professorship at ties. Her parallel conducted own
King's College and has been teaching company alone generated a profit of
German literature at the University 430,000 € additional income. Ruf has
of Stuttgart since 2008. been the director of the museum
since 2014, and since 2001 she has been the director of the
Dr. Josephine Gabler will take over the management of Kunsthalle in Zurich.

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