Even though it is another three years, The next New Museum Triennial is beginning to take shape.
Today, the New York institution announced that Vivian Crockett and Isabella Rjeille, curators at the New Museum and Museum of Art in São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) respectively, will organize the sixth edition of the recurring event – and the first to take place after the completion of a major expansion project which will double the size of the room. The exhibition is expected to open in 2026.
Previously assistant curator at the Dallas Museum of Art, Crockett joined the New Museum in 2022 and has since overseen a handful of presentations, including the institution’s current Personal exhibition of Wangechi Mutuwhich she co-organized with Margot Norton.
Rjeille joined the MASP Brazil curatorial team in 2016 and was promoted to her current position in 2019. At the São Paulo Museum, she curated monographic exhibitions of Brazilian artists. Cinthia Marcelle, Maria MartinsAnd Lucie Lagunaas well as collective exhibitions like the one in 2019 “Feminist Stories: Artists Registered in 2000(“Feminist Histories: Artists After 2000”).
In a press release, the artistic direction of the New MuseumFor Massimiliano Gioni, the duo “constitutes a formidable team to explore the art of tomorrow”.
Curators Vivian Crockett (left) and Isabella Rjeille (right). Photo courtesy of the New Museum.
“Isabella is the first international curator to be part of the Triennale and brings a wealth of experience from MASP, one of the most exciting institutions for modern and contemporary art. Vivian has just co-organized the acclaimed Wangechi Mutu survey critic of the New Museum and is part of a new generation of curators who are shaping the conversation about art and culture in general,” Gioni explained.
Lisa Phillips, director of the New Museum, added that the two curators will “bring a fresh perspective” to the Triennale, calling it “the only recurring exhibition in New York that spotlights a new generation of artists from around the world.”
Since its inception, the exhibition has also served as a high profile spotlight for emerging and established curators. Gioni co-organized the first edition with other curators of the New Museum Lauren Cornell and Laura Hoptman in 2009; Eungie Joo, also from the institution, led the event in 2012.
In recent years, New Museum staff members have partnered with curators from other institutions for the exhibition. Alex Gartenfeld from the Miami Institute of Contemporary Art joined Gary Carrion-Murayari from the New Museum to curate the politically inclined 2018 exhibition, “songs for sabotage“, while Norton and Jamillah James of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles jointly organized the “Freshwater hard stone.”
Although the schedule of the exhibition recurring every three years would normally place the next edition in 2024, the next exhibition has been pushed back two years in the calendar while the New Museum completes the construction of its new annex, designed by OMA’s Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas.
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