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 Vitra Design Museum and M+, she will be uniquely positioned to bring MoMA’s collection of modern design into a conversation with the present and to address issues such as diversity and the relationship of industrial design to craft that are key to the field today.”

Hwang added: “MoMA has been instrumental in shaping the discourse on modern design since its founding, and I am honored to be joining an outstanding curatorial team entrusted with one of the most important collections of art and design in the world. I look forward to strengthening and expanding transnational connections within the museum’s holdings and fostering an understanding of the global history of modern design and its impact on our societies today.”

Hwang’s past experience also includes various positions at the Vitra Design Museum that were held between 2014 and 2020.