Brooklyn Museum appoints new senior curator of contemporary art

PROSPECT HEIGHTS – THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM on Thursday announced the appointment of art historian Robert Wiesenberger as Barbara and John Vogelstein Senior Curator of Contemporary Art; he will begin his tenure on March 2. He was previously Curator of Contemporary Projects at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

In his role, Wiesenberger will seek to acquire contemporary works of exceptional quality and cultural and historical significance, to expand the museum’s connections with artists globally and locally, and to organize thematic and monographic exhibitions.

During his tenure at the Clark, Wiesenberger organized a series of milestone exhibitions with emerging and midcareer artists, including Yuji Agematsu, Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, Tauba Auerbach, Pia Camil, Carolina Caycedo, David-Jeremiah, Tomm El-Saieh, Kathia St. Hilaire, Christine Howard Sandoval, Lin May Saeed, Erin Shirreff, Kandis Williams and others, many in their first solo institutional exhibitions. He also produced a number of publications that combine scholarly rigor with experimental form.

For the past seven years, Wiesenberger has also been a lecturer in the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art. Ecology and the more-than-human world, artists’ books and print culture, and architecture and design are some of the throughlines in his research. Previously he was a critic at the Yale School of Art and a curatorial fellow at the Harvard Art Museums.

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