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The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation announced this Thursday that António Filipe Pimentel, who has been on the board of directors of the World Monuments Fund Portugal since 2020 but already holds the positions of director of the National Museum of Ancient Art and the Grão Vasco Museum, will be the main responsible for the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. In the same press release the name of Benjamin Weil, current artistic director of the Botín Center, while director of the Modern Art Center.
António Filipe Pimentel declared himself honored by “challenge, naturally irresistible ”, and for being able to place “at the service of the study, preservation and dissemination of an international reference collection whose safeguarding was created one of the most prestigious institutions of its kind in the world ”. Also Benjamim Weil, critic and curator who has already acted at the London Institute of Contemporary Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art “Delighted to be able to integrate the generous mission of the Gulbenkian Foundation through the Center for Modern Art.”
The Modern Art Center will recently enter renovation works, for which it has a project designed by the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, capable of opening “a new cycle of life” in an institution recognized for the importance of its collection of modern Portuguese art. Regarding this remodeling of the CAM, Weil affirmed that these works “offer an opportunity for the institution to reinvent itself and build a dynamic future, create and strengthen ties of collaboration with other areas of the Foundation, and explore new ways of making itself known and attract new audiences ”.
Both directors were selected after completing a selection process. led by an international company specialized in cultural institutions.
