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Curator Tanja Hwang joins MoMA's Department of Architecture and Design

2024-01-09T12:39:00-05:00

New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has announced the addition of curator Tanja Hwang to its Department of Architecture and Design.

Effective today, January 9, Hwang will join the museum and begin working in a capacity that entails managing the design collection, expanding the department’s acquisitions program, organizing exhibitions, managing exhibition catalogs and other publications, as well as “cultivating relationships within the Museum and in the design community.”

Hwang begins at the museum after serving as one of the first curatorial staffers at Hong Kong’s Herzog & de Meuron-designed M+ museum and having completed her academic training at the Freie Universität Berlin, according to a LinkedIn profile.

In a statement, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA, Martino Stierli, said: “Tanja comes to us with a global perspective and a deep knowledge of the canonical history of modern design. With her background in organizing exhibitions at both the...

Show and Tell: MoMA's chief curator of architecture and design, Martino Stierli, on One-to-One #38

2016-09-19T17:04:00-04:00

Martino Stierli took over as MoMA's chief curator of architecture and design in 2015, when the museum was already undergoing major changes. Diller Scofidio + Renfro's redesign was underway, and the architecture and design galleries faced something of an uncertain future in the expanded museum layout. On the podcast, Stierli dispels the rumors that the galleries would be closed permanently, and discusses MoMA's strategies for exhibiting architecture, as well as his plans to diversify the museum's collection.

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Martino Stierli Named New MoMA Architecture and Design Curator

2014-07-15T12:57:00-04:00

Martino Stierli, a Swiss art history professor, has been appointed chief curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, Glenn D. Lowry, the museum’s director announced Tuesday. Mr. Stierli, who will start next March, succeeds Barry Bergdoll, who stepped down last year to teach art history at Columbia University and remains a part-time curator at MoMA.