July 2009
The Board of Trustees of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam has appointed Ann Goldstein to the post of General Artistic Director of the Stedelijk Museum in January 2010. Goldstein is currently Senior Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, California, USA. Goldstein succeeds Gijs van Tuyl, who has led the museum since 2005.
The members of the Board of Trustees voted unanimously to appoint Goldstein as Director. The museum's workers' council and Carolien Gehrels, the city's Alderman with responsibility for Art and Culture, also responded enthusiastically to the nomination.
This appointment underscores the Stedelijk's reputation as an experimental, up-to-date, and socially committed museum, devoted to modern and contemporary art and artists. Goldstein places great emphasis on close cooperation with artists and the art world. She sees the Stedelijk as a prominent, defining institution with the ability to occupy a leading position through compelling exhibitions, sound art-historical research, distinguished acquisitions, dynamic education programs, and scholarly publications, all grounded in its extraordinary, world-class collection.
Goldstein's ambition is to make modern and contemporary art and design meaningful to the general public and expert alike by cultivating relationships through the museum. She feels that the museum should be "a lively and dynamic place, where programs are highly anticipated and curiosity is piqued, where artists feel at home and the public is constantly offered new and unexpected experiences."
Goldstein succeeds Gijs van Tuyl (1941), who has headed the Stedelijk Museum since 2004. Under Van Tuyl, the Stedelijk ran an experimental programme at its temporary exhibition venue Stedelijk Museum CS, with highlights including the successful Andy Warhol show. His period as director saw the start of construction work on the new Stedelijk Museum. Van Tuyl also initiated the acquisition of a number of major works by artists including Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger and Rineke Dijkstra.
Goldstein has worked for over 25 years at MOCA and, in 2001, was appointed Senior Curator. She has played an important role in the development of the museum, founded in 1979, into an internationally acclaimed institution. She is widely renowned as a curator and scholar, based on numerous exhibitions of modern and contemporary art that she has organized and overseen at the museum, and her extensive work with the permanent collection.
Many of Goldstein’s exhibitions have toured to leading institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art (both in New York), while various publications she has edited and authored are regarded as defining works in the field. Her knowledge of 20th and 21st-century art will be extremely relevant to her new position at the Stedelijk, as will her progressive, informed, and exciting ideas about the role of museums today.
Goldstein possesses an extensive international network of artists, curators, historians, and collectors. Though based in America, she has also maintained a special focus on European artists and institutions. In addition to her curatorial accomplishments, her tenure at MOCA has been characterized by strong leadership and successful fundraising. As a senior staff member at MOCA, she has extensive experience and a solid foundation in museum management.
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