BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE APPOINTS TWO NEW SENIOR CURATORS

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive at the University of California, Berkeley, has named two new senior curators—Philippe Pirotte to the position of adjunct senior curator and Apsara DiQuinzio as curator of modern and contemporary art and Phyllis C. Wattis MATRIX curator. DiQuinzio is currently assistant curator of painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where she has organized solo exhibitions with artists including Vincent Fecteau, Mai-Thu Perret, R. H. Quaytman, and Paul Sietsema. Prior to this role, she worked at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Pirotte is the former director of the Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland and a senior advisor at the Rijksakademie for Visual Arts in Amsterdam.

“Apsara and Philippe will both bring extraordinary knowledge, discernment, and creative thinking about modern and contemporary art across a wide range of global cultures,” says director Lawrence Rinder. “Apsara’s strong engagement with artists, enthusiasm for nonmainstream art and culture, and commitment to art’s social role wonderfully complement Philippe’s passionate connection to the contemporary art of Africa and Asia, his deep knowledge of historical and contemporary film and video, and his special interest in international conceptual art practices. I look forward to working with them on many exciting projects over the coming years.”