Hasta La Ideas

Taking a page from the playbook of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, which a year ago announced that Jeffrey Deitch would be exiting his various projects to come west and lead the institution, London’s financially shaky Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) has appointed veteran art dealer Gregor Muir as executive director. He succeeds Ekow Eshun, who resigned last summer. Muir has spent the past six years as director of Hauser & Wirth London, organizing gallery exhibitions in London, Zurich, and New York with artists such as Francis Picabia and Louise Bourgeois as well as emerging artists including Jakub Julian Ziolkowski, Anj Smith, and Monika Sosnowska. And he is no stranger to the museum world. He spent three years as Kramlich Curator of Contemporary Art at Tate and before that led Lux Gallery, which he founded in 1997. It was around this time that Muir curated a few exhibitions for the ICA, including “Assuming Positions” (1997) and “Liar” (1994). “He brings to the ICA many years of experience from both public and private sectors at a time when knowledge of both is so important,” said Alison Myners, chair of the ICA’s governing board, in a statement announcing the appointment. “Gregor will once again place artists at the heart of the ICA, making it a forum for new ideas and discussion, exciting audiences and restoring the ICA as a destination.” His first day on the job is February 7.

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