Kate Fowle Resigns as Director of MoMA PS1
Kate Fowle revealed on Friday that she was stepping down from her function as director of MoMA PS1 in Lengthy Island Metropolis, New York, after three years on the job. Fowle cited no cause for her sudden departure however added that she would proceed to prepare the establishment’s Daniel Lind-Ramos exhibition, slated to open in April of subsequent 12 months. The museum’s interim management contains deputy director Jose Ortiz, curatorial affairs director Ruba Katrib, and director of exterior affairs Molly Kurzius; alongside museum board chair Sarah Arison and Glenn Lowry, the director of the Museum of Trendy Artwork. Fowle’s final day is July 15.
Fowle arrived to PS1 in September 2019 to a submit that had remained empty for over a 12 months following Klaus Biesenbach’s transfer to the Museum of Up to date Artwork in Los Angeles (he left that place final 12 months). The British-born director rapidly lower a unique path from her predecessor, establishing a powerful repute at PS1 for partaking the area people in reveals that grappled with a variety of social points, whilst she was virtually instantly tasked with navigating the difficulties introduced on by the pandemic. Her temporary time there noticed exhibitions together with the Nicole Fleetwood–curated “Marking Time: Artwork within the Age of Incarceration” and “Nuevayorkinos: Important and Excluded” in addition to a gallery, “Homeroom,” geared towards collaborative exhibition-making with organizations in Lengthy Island Metropolis and close by neighborhoods.
Earlier than becoming a member of PS1, Fowle spent six years because the chief curator of the Storage Museum of Up to date Artwork in Moscow, serving to oversee the 2015 opening of its Rem Koolhaas–designed constructing and commencing the Storage Triennial two years later.
The resignation is a stunning transfer by Fowle, who had, in a New York Times profile printed solely three months in the past, outlined her targets for what appeared like an extended future forward: “to strengthen the reference to its neighbors in Western Queens and North Brooklyn, to make PS1 a hub of neighborhood exercise by artwork, to lean into the museum’s progressive roots and to present the establishment an id distinct from MoMA’s.”
