The Wexner Heart for the Arts at The Ohio State College in Columbus has appointed Julieta González as its subsequent head of exhibitions. She is going to start within the function in October.
González is a number one curator, with over three many years of expertise at establishments throughout Latin America, in addition to in Europe and the US and with greater than 80 exhibitions below her belt. She is most not too long ago the creative director of the Instituto Inhotim in Brazil, a sprawling sculpture park based by mega-collector Bernardo Paz. She is presently co-curating “Histórias latino-americanas,” scheduled to open in 2026 on the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, the place she is curator-at-large for contemporary and modern artwork.
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Previous to Inhotim she was creative director and chief curator on the Museo Jumex and senior curator on the Museo Tamayo, each in Mexico Metropolis. She has additionally held curatorial roles on the Whitney Museum in New York, the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York, Tate Trendy in London, and the Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas in Venezuela.
“Julieta is a seasoned curator with an awesome capability of analysis, you recognize, and having written some seminal catalogs of exhibition you can’t even discover [anymore],” Gaëtane Verna, the not too long ago appointed government director of the Wexner, informed ARTnews. “I spoke to totally different individuals with whom she labored with, they have been all very constant, [highlighting] the seriousness of her endeavor, the generosity, the management, and the initiatives that she has completed prior to now.”
Verna mentioned she first got here to know González by way of the work of artist Franz Erhard Walther. They each curated profession surveys for the artist: Verna on the Energy Plant in Toronto in 2016 (the artist’s first in Canada) and González on the Museo Jumex (his first in Latin America). “I went to the opening [at the Museo Jumex], and we felt like an enormous household,” Verna mentioned, noting that she was additionally impressed by the concurrent thematic exhibition curated by González, “Reminiscences of Underdevelopment: Artwork and the Decolonial Flip in Latin America, 1960–1985.”
As head of exhibitions, González will oversee the Wexner’s exhibition calendar and handle its curatorial crew, in addition to look to foster additional collaboration between the museum and its broader group at Ohio State.
“The Wexner is a spot that has all the time been on my radar when it comes to the exhibits they have been doing,” González mentioned. “I additionally felt that I might work nicely with Gaëtane as a result of I had adopted her program on the Energy Plant, and there have been a whole lot of factors in widespread, a whole lot of widespread floor.”
Trying to the way forward for the Wexner, Verna and González each mentioned they wish to current groundbreaking exhibitions, working the gamut from rising artists to late artists, native artists to worldwide artists, with an eye fixed towards analysis and a worldwide tackle how artists are addressing at present’s most urgent points.
“I wish to construct on the capability and the historical past of the establishment, however actually look ahead,” Verna mentioned. “Collectively we carry this worldwide perspective into the American dialog. We’re in a Tier-1 analysis college, there may be a lot capability to push the envelope.”
González added, “For the previous 15 years, I’ve targeted on intersections between the fields, of artwork, movie, structure, design, anthropology, ecology, and cybernetics. … This tutorial setting would provide exactly an excellent alternative to take action.”