A New Space for the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain

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The , in partnership with the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain and Columbia GSAPP, is pleased to present the second edition of the annual Judith Ginsberg Cultural Program.

What role does architecture play in defining a museum’s identity? How can a building shape the way an institution expresses its values, collections, and exhibitions?

Join Chris Dercon, Directeur Général of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, for an evening keynote address on the power of architectural space in curating contemporary exhibitions. His address will be followed by a conversation with architect Galia Solomonoff, Associate Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University. Together, they will explore how buildings can transform the ways we experience art.

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Chris Dercon

Directeur Général of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain

Chris Dercon is a museum director, curator and art historian who has spent his career overseeing refurbishment and extension projects for cultural spaces, notably, at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, at the Grand Palais, both in Paris, in London at the Tate Modern, in Munich at the Haus der Kunst, and at the Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. Since 2023, as the current General Director of the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain he oversaw the construction of the new building of the Fondation Cartier designed by Jean Nouvel. From 2019 to 2023, he was President of the Réunion des Musées Nationaux – Grand Palais where he worked with François Chatillon and Atelier Senzu on the renovation project of the nave, and the surrounding galleries, in a project that restored circulation between the three buildings of the Grand Palais. During his tenure as the intendant of the Volksbühne in Berlin from 2017 to 2018, Dercon worked on projects with Francis Kéré and Arno Brandlhuber. From 2011 to 2016, at Tate Modern, Dercon worked with Herzog and de Meuron on a major extension and ended his tenure with a publication on the architecture of the museum, featuring conversations with Herzog & de Meuron, Günter Vogt, Ian Cartlidge and Jasper Morrison. From 2003 to 2011, at the Haus de Kunst in Munich he initiated a critical reconstruction with Koolhaas, Herzog, De Meuron and Grcic of the Haus der Kunst by Troost in the 30’s. As director of the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, from 1996 to 2003 in Rotterdam he worked with Robbrecht and Daem on the museum extension and advised Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam on several of his projects with cultural infrastructure. He was director of the Witte de With centre in Rotterdam from 1990 to 1995, and program director at Moma PS1 from 1988 to 1990.

Dercon has published on Konstantin Gracic, Oscar Niemeyer, Petra Blaisse Charles Vandenhove, Rem Koolhaas and others. Several of his publications examine the museum of the future.

Galia Solomonoff

Associate Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

As Principal of SAS/Solomonoff Architecture Studio in Chelsea, New York City and a registered architect, Galia Solomonoff has worked with over 40 international artists, creating installations in homes, museums, airports and the public way. As architect of Dia:Beacon, Solomonoff collaborated with artists Robert Irwin, Richard Serra, and Michael Heizer among others to interpret their sketches into permanently built art works. She has done the same for collectors, transforming homes with permanent art installations by to live with. For The Jewish Museum and the Institute for the Study of Ancient History, Solomonoff is engaged in ongoing assignments to design temporary exhibits, ranging from Chagall to Modigliani, Islamic Manuscripts to Burle Marx and Ancient History. Galia’s expertise extends to art centered restaurants, such as Kappo Masa for Larry Gagosian at 980 Madison which features works by Picasso and Russ and Daughters at The Jewish Museum with a mural by Maira Kalman. Currently an Associate Professor at Columbia GSAPP and member of the university’s Global initiatives, Galia engages in discussions of art, architecture, and how to further their public democratic mission in the cultural and political sphere.

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This event will take place in Reid Hall’s Grande Salle Ginsberg-LeClerc, built in 1912 and extensively renovated in 2023 thanks to the generous support of Judith Ginsberg and Paul LeClerc.

Reid Hall, the Columbia Global Paris Center, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination are not responsible for the views and opinions expressed by their speakers and guests.

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