Moderna Museet Malmö Names Elisabeth Millqvist as Next Director – RisePEI
Elisabeth Millqvist has been named the brand new director of the Moderna Museet’s Malmö department of the preeminent Stockholm fashionable and modern artwork establishment.
Millqvist will take the helm on August 1, succeeding Iris Müller-Westermann, who has led the museum since 2017. Müller-Westermann will keep on as a curator on the Moderna Museet.
She joins Malmö from the Wanås Konst Sculpture Park, the place she served since 2011 as co-director and inventive director. Her tenure on the park, which counts some 70 everlasting site-specific set up, was marked by the addition of a number of works created particularly for the sprawling grounds, together with items by Igshaan Adams, William Forsythe, Yoko Ono, and Rana Begum.
Working with co-director Mattias Givell, she considerably expanded the park’s dance and efficiency program with an emphasis on new commissions.
“It has all the time been of central significance for me to work carefully with artists and to help new tasks,” Millqvist mentioned in a press release. She continued: “In Malmö, the museum has been a part of the artwork scene for twelve years, and it’s nonetheless being formed by town, the humanities group, and the workers. The museum is in a dynamic section, and I’m proud to be entrusted with the chance to steer its growth.”
Located within the small island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, the Moderna Museet’s primary web site is famend for proudly owning one of many best collections of recent artwork in Europe.
In 2009, the museum expanded to the southern coastal metropolis Malmö; the brand new location opened in a former electrical energy plant that was revamped with a putting orange perforated façade. The 2 establishments preserve exhibition applications which are unbiased of each other.
