Victor Wang has been appointed as the director of Artspace in Sydney. He joins from M Woods Museum, where he has been the executive and artistic director since 2019, overseeing both the Beijing and Chengdu locations. He will take up his new role in autumn 2025, replacing interim executive director Michelle Newton.
Artspace was established in 1983 as an artist-run gallery for emerging and early-career artists. In 1992 the institution moved to its current permanent home in The Gunnery in Woolloomooloo.
At M Woods Wang curated and co-curated exhibitions by artists including Ann Veronica Janssens, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Salman Toor. He also led the development of international collaborations with Tate Modern and The British Museum.
Wang will oversee Artspace’s curatorial and public programmes, exhibitions, studio programme, international curators programme, international partnerships and co-commissioning projects. His appointment follows the $19.2 million transformation of Artspace in The Gunnery, a heritage-listed building, recently secured with a new 35-year sublease from the New South Wales government.
‘Now is the time to reconfigure cartographies, reconnect with the shared histories, waterways and deep cultural ties of the Asia-Pacific and the Global South,’ Wang said in a statement. ‘Artspace is preparing to be more than just a platform; it will become a laboratory for bold ideas, a home for radical imagination, and a space without borders or shores.’
