Fanny Hauser has been appointed the new director of Kunsthalle Zürich. She replaces Daniel Baumann, who departs to become an independent curator after ten years at the Kunsthalle.
Born in Vienna, Hauser joins from the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen, where she has been assistant director since May 2022. In 2016, she cofounded the Vienna-based art association Kevin Space, and that year also worked as a curatorial assistant at Documenta 14. She was also a lecturer at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna from 2021 to 2022.
“She knows Switzerland and its peculiarities through her work at the Gebert Foundation in Rapperswil and is very familiar with the programme at Kunsthalle Zürich thanks to countless visits to Zürich,” the Kunsthalle’s selection committee president Michael Ringier said.
Hauser will begin in January 2025.
