New Director of the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts (MCBA) in Lausanne. Zurich president, Yuri Steiner, who has been in the capital for fifteen years in the capital Vaud, will succeed Bernhard Weibcher on July 1.
Juri Steiner has been unanimously appointed by the hiring committee, and garnered support “through the breadth and diversity of his experience and cultural and media network,” the 10th Platform Foundation, which oversees the MCBA, announced Monday.
Juri Steiner, 52, is an art historian by training, collaborating notably with Expo 02 and the Aichi World Fair (Japan), before taking over the Paul Klee Center in Bern in 2007. He stayed there for four years, after which it became independent.
Then his various states took him to the Swiss National Museum in Zurich, the Dornmatt Center in Neuchâtel, the Graubünden Museum of Fine Arts, and the International Museum of the Reformation in Geneva.
‘unique opportunity’
After a brief stint in the corporate world, Jory Steiner says he seized a “unique opportunity” by taking on the MCBA. “At this point in my career, it’s a dream project,” he notes, and has been contacted by Keystone-ATS.
The accredited resident of Lausanne is delighted to take on the “enormous challenge” of working within the constellation Platform 10 which, along with the MCBA, will host Photo Elysée and the mudac design museum next year. “I like the idea of being able to work with other skill centers,” he says.
The former New Zealand art critic welcomes Canton Vaud’s “ambition” to create such a museum centre, unique in Switzerland, which he says he followed through all stages of the design. He particularly commends the “generosity” of MCBA architecture, a building that “puts itself at the service of business.”
Choose from 40 files
Before making the decision, the jury examined more than forty Swiss and international applications. He then tested six candidates, before making his unanimous decision on Juri Steiner.
The hiring committee consisted of eight people: two members of the Plateforme 10 Board of Directors, three members of the Board of Directors of the Plateforme 10 Foundation, a representative of the Vau State Cultural Service, as well as two personalities from around the world Swiss Museum and Art.
Juri Steiner will take over from Bernard Weicher on July 1, 2022, who will retire. He is the first new director to be appointed to Plateforme 10. Mudac and Photo Elysée are also looking for a new direction with the departures of Chantal Prod’hom (retired) and Tatyana Franck (appointed to the French Institute Alliance française in New York).
This article was published automatically. Source: ats
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