Rome’s MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art has named curator and writer Francesco Stocchi to be its next director. Stocchi will take over from Hou Hanrou, who has served the position since 2013. A large portion of Stocchi’s role consists of a considerable restructuring of the museum’s exhibition programming, which according to Il Foglio has been under much local and administrative influence.
Born in Rome in 1975, Francesco Stocchi founded the magazine AGMA in 2010. In 2011, he was named curator of modern and contemporary art at Rotterdam’s Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. He has recently curated Giuseppe Penone: Gestures at Rome’s Galleria Borghese, Over the threshold: Leandro Erlich at Milan’s Palazzo Reale and the Swiss national pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022).
