Swiss curator and scholar Marc-Olivier Wahler has been appointed as the new director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University (not to be confused with the recently opened Broad Museum in Los Angeles). The museum, designed by Zaha Hadid, opened in 2012 thanks to a donation by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad and houses a vast collection spanning from ancient Greece and Rome and pre-Columbian artefacts to modern and contemporary art.
Wahler previously served as director of Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2006–12) and the Swiss Institute (2000–06). He is the founding director of the Chalet Society in Paris and Transformer Sculpture Park, Melides, Portugal, and artistic advisor for the De Appel Arts Center in Amsterdam and CI Contemporary Istanbul. Wahler writes for international publications including Flash Art International, Parkett Magazine, and Art Press, and has contributed to many academic publications and exhibition catalogues. He will be succeeding to founding director Michael Rush, who passed away in March 2015, on 1 July.
9 March 2016.
