Elena Filipovic has been named director of the Kunstmuseum Basel, changing Josef Helfenstein who was appointed in 2016. She takes up the put up in June subsequent yr, setting the agenda for certainly one of Switzerland’s most necessary museums.
Filipovic is the director and chief curator on the Kunsthalle Basel the place she has organised greater than 60 exhibitions since 2014 together with exhibits devoted to Michael Armitage, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Yngve Holen and Anne Imhof.
In 2008, along with Adam Szymczyk, she organised the fifth Berlin Biennale for Modern Artwork. In 2022, she curated the Croatian pavilion on the 59th Venice Artwork Biennale.
Felix Uhlmann, the chairman of Kunstmuseum Basel’s artwork committee, says: “Filipovic satisfied the [interview] committee together with her imaginative and prescient relating to the way forward for our museum in addition to her skilled observe document, her management abilities and her infectious enthusiasm for your entire vary of artwork historical past.”
Based on the Princeton College web site, Filipovic’s PhD dissertation, The Apparently Marginal Actions of Marcel Duchamp, “focuses on a collection of fugitive operations (or ‘actions’ as her title calls them) that Marcel Duchamp incited between 1913 and 1969”.
The Kunstmuseum Basel is among the world’s oldest museums, with origins courting again to the seventeenth century, and is residence to greater than 300,000 works spanning eight centuries.
