Invitation: The new Museum Director of Amos Rex will be announced Friday November 17th
Amos Rex, which burst onto the scene with a bang in 2018, has established itself as an unconventional art museum and a landmark in Helsinki, bringing playfulness into the art scene. The board of Amos Rex has searched for a new Museum Director for Amos Rex through an international recruitment process. The new Museum director has been chosen and the decision will be announced Friday November 17th.
Amos Rex. Photo: Mika Huisman
Welcome to the press event on Friday November 17th at 10–11 am (EET/UTC+2) at the Bio Rex cinema, Mannerheimintie 22-24. The speeches will begin at 10.15 am. The event is in Swedish and in English.
Register for the event: https://amosrex.fi/rsvp-press/
The event will be live streamed, participate here: https://enchant.fi/amosrex/press
Agenda:
Speeches
Stefan Björkman, chairman of the board of Amos Rex, CEO of Konstsamfundet
New Museum Director
Questions and answers
The event ends at 11.
Amos Rex – an extraordinary art museum in Helsinki
Amos Rex offers unique and surprising experiences through presenting new, often experimental, contemporary art.
The museum has hosted names such as teamLab, Studio Drift, Bill Viola and Hans Op de Beeck. Every three years Amos Rex showcases art by 15- to 23-year-old artists in the Generation exhibition series.
The museum entrance and shop are located in a functionalist building called Lasipalatsi (‘glass palace’ in English), a landmark of 1930s Finnish modernism. Lasipalatsi represents a novel idea of its time, as it’s one of the first buildings where restaurants, cafés, shops and a cinema, Bio Rex, came together under a single roof. The subterranean exhibition spaces in the extension were planned by JKMM Architects, and the museum opened in 2018.
The roof of the gallery bubbles up through the ground, creating a playful outdoor landscape, which is now a landmark in Helsinki. Through the skylights you can spot charming details such as Amos Rex’s chimney or stairs that seem to lead nowhere.
Press images: https://media.amosrex.fi/l/xVpfPfVj8LW
Inquiries:
Iia Palovaara, Head of Communications, Amos Rex
+358 50 544 3331, iia.palovaara@amosrex.fi
Mary Gestrin, Director of Communications, Föreningen Konstsamfundet
+358 40 070 3861, mary.gestrin@konstsamfundet.fi
Amos Rex is an art museum where the past, present and future meet. Located within the functionalist landmark of Lasipalatsi, the newly built domed exhibition spaces lie under the distinctively undulating Lasipalatsi square. Amos Rex presents site-sensitive, experiential, and often technologically experimental exhibitions by contemporary artists and their Modernist predecessors. Amos Rex is owned by Föreningen Konstsamfundet.
Mannerheimintie 22–24, 00100 Helsinki
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