EMMA ENDERBY TO LEAD KW INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Emma Enderby has been announced as the next director of Berlin’s KW Institute for Contemporary Art. The British-born Enderby will arrive to the institution from the Haus der Kunst in Munich, where she has since November 2021 served as chief curator and head of programs and research. She will replace Krist Gruijthuijsen, who is exiting the museum after eight years in the role. Enderby will begin her new job on April 15, 2024; her program at the institution will launch in January 2025.
“[Enderby’s] committed approach to ecological issues and her focus on positions from outside of the official canon and Berlin as an international hub has inspired and convinced us,” said KW Institute’s selection committee in a statement.
Before coming to Haus der Kunst, Enderby spent five years as chief curator at New York nonprofit space the Shed, where she organized exhibitions by artists including Ian Cheng, Agnes Denes, Trisha Donnelly, and Tomás Saraceno. Before that, she was an associate curator at New York’s Public Art Fund, where she cocurated the group exhibitions “Commercial Break” and “The Language of Things,” and organized solo presentations by Spencer Finch, Katja Novitskova, and David Shrigley. Enderby had earlier served as exhibitions curator at the Serpentine Galleries in London, and as an exhibitions assistant at London’s Royal Academy of Arts.
“I look forward to this new journey and thank the board and the selection committee for trusting me to guide KW as a place within Berlin that can be quick and responsive, allowing for the issues of our time to be made central,” said Enderby in a statement. “For me, KW has a unique position within the Berlin landscape as a home for artists and the wider cultural landscape of the city and I want to present Berlin and KW as a nexus for the arts.”
