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Kate Fowle is MoMA PS1's new director

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Kate Fowle is MoMA PS1's new director

Kate Fowle (Courtesy MoMA PS1)

Drumroll, please: Curator Kate Fowle is MoMA PS1‘s new director.

Until recently, the U.K.-born Fowle had been acting as the first Chief Curator at Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art since 2013. She will succeed Klaus Biesenbach, who left a 23-year tenure at MoMA PS1 about eight months ago to head up The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

“It’s an honor to take the helm of MoMA PS1 at this juncture in its rich history,” said Fowle in a press statement. “I look forward to working with the team and board to create a generative environment where our outlook is transformed through artists and their perspectives on the world.”

Before her stint in Moscow, Fowle directed the New York-based Independent Curators International (ICI) from 2009 to 2013. The organization connects contemporary art curators around the world.

The announcement comes on the heels of the first public viewing of this year’s Young Architects Program (YAP) installation by Mexico City-based Pedro y Juana in the courtyard of the Long Island City MoMA offshoot. YAP invites emerging firms to build a summer installation in the PS1 courtyard that provides light and shade to visitors during Warm Up, the museum’s summer Saturdays music event.


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