Xue Tan Appointed Chief Curator of Haus der Kunst

Hong Kong–based curator and writer Xue Tan has been named chief curator at Haus der Kunst, Munich. She succeeds Emma Enderby, who this past fallaccepted the jobof director of Berlin’s KW Institute for Contemporary Art. Tan arrives to Haus der Kunst from Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun Contemporary, where she has served as founding senior curator since 2015. She will take up her new post this June.

“I am thrilled to begin working with Xue Tan,” Andrea Lissoni, artistic director of Haus der Kunst, said in a statement. “She brings to Haus der Kunst deep knowledge and experience on the Asian Region, as well as on transdisciplinary contemporary artistic practices, that are at the core of the exciting transformation the institution is going through.”

During her tenure at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Tan was in charge of exhibition programs and special projects. Among the exhibitions she mounted are those of Francis Alÿs, Cao Fei, Pan Daijing, Maria Hassabi, and Tino Sehgal. As well, she organized group exhibitions themed around issues of gender, ecology, and technology. Tan has additionally curated exhibitions at Bard CCS, New York, and the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt. 

“After dedicating almost a decade on establishing Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong, I am thrilled to join Andrea Lissoni and the team in furthering the vision of art as a complex evolution through inventive and transformative engagements, and impactful programming,” Tan said in a statement. “I look forward to contributing to the transformation of the institution, my network of artists and communities across the globe will be a solid support for our work.”