Elvira Dyangani Ose has been appointed the director of The Showroom in London. Dyangani Ose is the senior curator at Creative Time, the New York-based non-profit public arts organisation; a lecturer in visual cultures at Goldsmiths College and a member of the ‘Thought Council’ at the Fondazione Prada. At the latter she has worked on projects with artists Laura Lima, Theaster Gates, Nástio Mosquito and Betye Saar among others. Her appointment comes after Emily Pethick, the former director of the non-profit west London institution, was appointed general director of the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
In a statement Elvira Dyangani Ose noted ‘Most of my theoretical work has focused on new forms of environment produced by artists in the absence of conventional institutions and contexts. The chance of continuing research and curatorial projects on the formulation of such experience as institution, as well as providing a platform for experimental artistic practices under the umbrella of The Showroom, is extraordinary.’
15 June 2018
