Fanny Hauser Tapped as Director of the Kunsthalle Zürich

Vienna-born curator Fanny Hauser has been named the subsequent director of the Kunsthalle Zürich, taking the place of Daniel Baumann, who might be leaving the museum after ten years to work on curatorial initiatives independently, the museum introduced. Hauser will begin the brand new place in January 2025.

At the moment the deputy director at Ludwig Discussion board in Aachen, Germany, Hauser is leaving the fashionable artwork basis simply greater than two years after taking on the place in Might 2022.

She began her work as a curator in 2016 when she co-founded the up to date art-focused Kunstverein Kevin House in Vienna, the place she co-curated exhibitions on artists with growing worldwide attain. Hauser organized reveals for Ioana Nemeș, a Romanian artist based mostly in Bucharest, Chinese language artists Peng Zuqiang and Evelyn Taocheng Wang who’re based mostly within the U.S and Netherlands, respectively, and Algerian artist Lydia Ourahmane, amongst others.

Earlier than coming to Ludwig Discussion board, Hauser labored as a curatorial assistant for documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel below Polish critic and curator Adam Szymczyk. From 2019 to 2021, she served as a curatorial fellow on the up to date artwork basis Gebert Stiftung für Kultur in Rapperswil, Switzerland. That place is one Kunsthalle’s choice committee president Michael Ringier advised ArtReview lead Hauser to being tapped into the Zurich artwork scene.

Hauser’s two-and-a-half-year tenure on the Ludwig Discussion board helped to form the German museum’s packages in a profitable manner, director Eva Birkenstock saidf in a press release. She added that Hauser’s departure to Kunsthalle Zürich is an enormous step for the curator, acknowledging the museum as being one of many high establishments devoted to up to date artwork in Switzerland.