Change in the direction of Madre in Naples: Kathryn Weir, a Briton, arrives from the Centre Pompidou

The Madre Museum in Naples from January 2020 will have a new artistic director: the current director, Andrea Viliani, will in fact be succeeded by Kathryn Weir, a curator of great international experience, arriving from the Centre Pompidou, where she directed the Département du Développement Culturel.

An Anglo-Australian (she holds both U.K. and Australian citizenship), Kathryn Weir began her career at the National Gallery in Canberra, Australia, and then directed the Australian cinematheque and the international art department of the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane before coming to the Pompidou in Paris. Her projects and exhibitions curated by her are numerous: the Cosmopolis format, which she invented (a platform of multidisciplinary activities for artists), proposed in two editions (one in 2017 and one in 2019) and in 2018 also exported to China, stands out in particular. At the Pompidou, she also launched the annual Move event, dedicated to the performing arts. She was also curator at the fifth, sixth and seventh Asia-Pacific Triennial between 2006 and 2013.

The committee that nominated Weir, who emerged as the winner from a batch of 18 candidates from around the world, consisted of Gabriella Belli, director of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia; Paolo Giulierini, director of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli; Pierluigi Sacco, Professor of Cultural Economics at IULM in Milan; Laura Valente, president of the Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee; and Andrea Viliani, current artistic director of the Museo Madre.

Pictured: Kathryn Weir.

Change in the direction of Madre in Naples: Kathryn Weir, a Briton, arrives from the Centre Pompidou

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