Stephanie Rosenthal Named Project Director of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi – RisePEI

The Guggenheim’s high-profile Abu Dhabi outpost, almost 20 years within the making, has named a brand new mission director to guide its last leg of development. Stephanie Rosenthal will oversee the museum’s long-awaited opening on Saadiyat Island, house to cultural establishments together with the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

Rosenthal has served because the director of Gropius Bau in Berlin since 2018, following 10 years because the chief curator on the Hayward Gallery in London. The Munich native was the primary lady to guide Gropius Bau and is credited with reinvigorating its curatorial program with a give attention to various modern artists. She additionally launched the gallery’s first artist-in-residence program; Wu Tsang, Otobong Nkanga, and Zheng Bo have been among the many first artists to take part.

She’s going to formally start her tenure within the Emirati capital in September and can collectively direct the establishment forward of its scheduled opening in 2025.

“My purpose is to create an inclusive establishment that’s really rooted within the area and may turn into probably the most vital establishments worldwide,” Rosenthal stated in a press release. “I’ve all the time been dedicated to the imaginative and prescient of artists and supported their creative artistic course of.”

Rosenthal will assume her place amid a interval of political and social transition attributable to the current dying of the federation’s ruler, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Khalifa, the president of the U.A.E. since 2004, collectively along with his brother Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, fueled Abu Dhabi’s financial progress and pursuit of worldwide cultural cachet. The federal government’s cultural tourism authority is centrally concerned within the developments on Saadiyat Island.

The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is without doubt one of the highest-profile tasks on the waterfront advanced. When it’s accomplished, it is going to be house to the Louvre Abu Dhabi, constructed by famend French architect Jean Nouvel; the Zayed Nationwide Museum, designed by the British architectural agency Foster + Companions; and the Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Heart designed by Zaha Hadid. The federal government has estimated that the advanced will see 7.9 million vacationers yearly.

As head of the Guggenheim’s mission crew, Rosenthal will work intently with Maisa Al Qassimi, the museum’s performing mission director for the Tourism & Tradition Authority.