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Lars Nittve
Swedish museum director (born 1953) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lars Nittve (born 17 September 1953) is a Swedish museum director, curator, art critic and writer.[1] He was the founding Director of Tate Modern in London;[2] former Director of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm;[3] the founding Director of Rooseum – Center for Contemporary Art – in Malmö, Sweden;[4] and Director of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark.
Nittve was the Executive Director of M+, museum for visual culture of West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong.[5]
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Early life and education
Lars Nittve was born in Stockholm in 1953.[6] He studied at the Stockholm School of Economics, and obtained an M.A. at Stockholm University.[1] He also pursued postgraduate studies at New York University.[1] In 2009, Nittve earned a PhD, HC, from the Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.[7]
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In 1978 to 1985, Nittve served as lecturer in art history at the Stockholm University.[8] During the same period he has been Senior art critic for the Swedish daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm,[9] and contributed regularly to Artforum, New York City.[10]
From 1986 Nittve was appointed Chief Curator at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm,[3] where he curated a large number of high-profile exhibitions – both monographic and thematic, among them "Walter De Maria",[11] "Kandinsky and Sweden", "Hilma af Klint"[12] and the seminal "Implosion – a Postmodern Perspective".[13][14] From 1990 to 1995, he served as the founding Director of Rooseum – Center for Contemporary Art – in Malmö, Sweden,[4] where he organized the whole exhibition program, including surveys of "Susan Rothenberg",[15] "Allan McCollum",[16][17] "Sherrie Levine"[18] and "Andreas Gursky".[19] In July 1995, Nittve became Director of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark, where he also curated the groundbreaking exhibition "Sunshine & Noir – Art in L.A. 1960–1997".[20] In the spring of 1998, he was named the first Director of Tate Modern, London, which opened in May 2000 to great acclaim.[21]
In 2001, he took up his post as Director of Moderna Museet, the national Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm.[22] He co-curated the thematic exhibition Fashination in 2004 about the dialogue between art and fashion in the last ten years.[23] Other exhibitions include "Time and Place: Los Angeles 1957–1968" (2008);[24] "Anthony McCall" (2009)[25] and most recently "Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting" (2010).[26] During his time at the Moderna Museet, Nittve was instrumental in the fundraising effort (70 million USD) that strengthened the collection and oversaw the expansion of the institution – including The Second Museum of Our Wishes, which focuses on bringing more works by women artists into the collection,[27][28] the creation of the innovative Renzo Piano designed Pontus Hultén Study Gallery (opened in May 2008),[29] The American Friends of the Moderna Museet Inc. and the opening of Moderna Museet Malmö in 2009.[30]
At the end of 2010, Nittve left his post as Director of the Moderna Museet after having served the maximum length of nine years anyone is permitted to hold the post.[31][32]
From 2011–2016, Nittve was Executive Director of the M+ museum in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong.[33][34][35]
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Awards and recognition
Lars Nittve has served on the jury of numerous international prizes[36][37][38] and has been on the board of a large number of international art organizations.[12] He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Art.[12]
In 2009 he was awarded a PhD H.C by Umeå University, Sweden, where he is also professor in Art history since 2010.[7]
In 2010, Nittve was awarded H. M. The King's Medal in gold, 12th size in the Order of the Serafim's ribbon.[39]
Nittve is the author of several publications on art, as well as articles in journals and catalogues in Sweden and abroad.[40]
In 2013 he was ranked at number 73 in ArtReview Magazine's annual Power 100[41]
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