Ann Goldstein. Photo by Michael Powers
The Board of Trustees of the
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam has announced that Ann Goldstein (b. 1957) will take up the post of General Artistic Director of its museum in January 2010. Goldstein is currently Senior Curator at the
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles. She has organised and co-organised a variety of exhibitions since joining the museum in 1983, including such large-scale surveys as
A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968 and
A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation. She has also set up solo exhibitions of such artists as Barbara Kruger, Judy Fiskin and Roni Horn.
Chairman of the Board of Trustees Alexander Ribbink said that Goldstein ‘is exactly in line with the traditions of the museum, where contemporary art and artists have always enjoyed pride of place. ’ Goldstein herself, who has always maintained a special focus on European artists and institutions, intimated that she is honoured to lead the Stedelijk Museum on the eve of its highly anticipated reopening in 2010. She described the museum as one of the preeminent institutions devoted to modern and contemporary art and design in the world, and expressed her feeling that feels it should become ‘a lively and dynamic place, where programs are highly anticipated and curiosity is piqued, where artists feel at home and the public is constantly offered new and unexpected experiences.’
Ann Goldstein succeeds Gijs van Tuyl, who has led the museum since 2005, and is the first non-Dutch director and the first woman to be in charge of this prominent Dutch institution.
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