Kate Fowle Resigns as Director of MoMA PS1

Kate Fowle unveiled on Friday that she was stepping down from her purpose as director of MoMA PS1 in Prolonged Island Town, New York, right after a few decades on the career. Fowle cited no explanation for her unexpected departure but added that she would continue on to manage the institution’s Daniel Lind-Ramos exhibition, slated to open in April of following year. The museum’s interim management features deputy director Jose Ortiz, curatorial affairs director Ruba Katrib, and director of exterior affairs Molly Kurzius along with museum board chair Sarah Arison and Glenn Lowry, the director of the Museum of Fashionable Art. Fowle’s previous day is July 15.

Fowle arrived to PS1 in September 2019 to a submit that had remained empty for more than a year subsequent Klaus Biesenbach’s go to the Museum of Up to date Art in Los Angeles (he left that position past year). The British-born director immediately lower a diverse path from her predecessor, establishing a strong standing at PS1 for participating the nearby community in exhibits that grappled with a broad selection of social problems, even as she was almost immediately tasked with navigating the challenges introduced on by the pandemic. Her brief time there observed exhibitions together with the Nicole Fleetwood–curated “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Incarceration” and “Nuevayorkinos: Crucial and Excluded” as effectively as a gallery, “Homeroom,” geared toward collaborative exhibition-creating with companies in Extended Island Town and nearby neighborhoods. 

Just before signing up for PS1, Fowle spent six decades as the chief curator of the Garage Museum of Up to date Artwork in Moscow, helping oversee the 2015 opening of its Rem Koolhaas–designed making and commencing the Garage Triennial two many years later.

The resignation is a shocking transfer by Fowle, who experienced, in a New York Times profile printed only three months ago, outlined her targets for what seemed like a lengthy future ahead: “to improve the link with its neighbors in Western Queens and North Brooklyn, to make PS1 a hub of community exercise by means of art, to lean into the museum’s progressive roots and to give the institution an identification distinct from MoMA’s.”

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