MAK CENTER DIRECTOR LEAVES FOR UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM AT CAL STATE LONG BEACH
After nearly fourteen years leading the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House in Los Angeles, director Kimberli Meyer is leaving to become director of the University Art Museum at California State University Long Beach. The director of MAK (Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art) in Vienna, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, said, “Kimberli’s tenure at the MAK Center has marked a period of exceptional growth and productivity, represented not only by the physical expansion of MAK Center properties, but also in exhibitions, publications and programming that have brought national and international notice to this unique public venture.”
Among the many exhibitions Meyer has spearheaded, curated, or overseen are “How Many Billboards? Art In Stead,” cocurated with Lisa Henry, Nizan Shaked, and Gloria Sutton; “Esther McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist Architecture and Design,” cocurated with Susan Morgan; “Yves Klein: Air Architecture,” curated by Francois Perrin; “Tony Greene: Room of Advances,” curated by Judie Bamber and Monica Majoli; “Everything Loose Will Land: 1970s Art and Architecture in Los Angeles,” curated by Sylvia Lavin; and “Routine Pleasures,” curated by Michael Ned Holte. The next exhibition at the MAK Center, scheduled for 2017, is “How to Read El Pato Pascual: Disney’s Latin America and Latin America’s Disney,” curated by Rubén Ortiz Torres and Jesse Lerner.
Meyer worked with numerous artists, architects, curators, and scholars to develop and mount projects at the MAK Center, including Carmen Argote, Michael Asher, Scott Benzel, David Burns, Sara Daleiden, Andrea Fraser, Renée Green, Katie Grinnan, Isaac Julian, Brandon Lattu, Simon Leung, Dorit Margreiter, Gunther Domenig, Steven Holl, Andrea Lenardin Madden, Christoph A. Kumpusch, Lebbeus Woods, My Barbarian, Vanessa Place, Lauren Woods, and Erwin Wurm. She also presided over the expansion of the MAK Center’s R. M. Schindler properties, including negotiating the gift of the Fitzpatrick-Leland House and overseeing the new Garage Top space at the Mackey Apartments. She also served as commissioner for the US presentation at the 11th Cairo Biennial, which presented the work of artist Jennifer Steinkamp.
