The new director Tate Modern was appointed

The director of the London Museum Tate Modern for the first time in his history will become a woman. The curator Francis Morris, who has been working in Tate since the late 1980s, has been appointed to this position.

According to The Guardian , Morris will also become the first British at the head of Tate Modern: the former directors of the museum formed in 2000 were citizens of Sweden, Spain and Belgium.

The last of them, the Belgian art critic and curator Chris Derkon, heading Tate Modern since 2011, lasted the invitation of the German Culture Minister Monica Gutters to take the position of an quartermaster of the Berlin Theater of Volksbune AM Rosa-Luxembourg Plaz.

Derkon will remain in London until the summer of 2017, when a new room worth 260 million pounds will open in Tate Modern, which will increase the museum exhibition areas by 60%.

Francis Morris studied the history of art at the University of Cambridge and the Kurto Institute of Art. Since 1987, she worked in Tate - first the curator of the collection of contemporary art, then - the curator of the design program, from 2000 to 2006 he was the director of the Tate Modern exhibition department, notes The Art Newspaper Russia . Among the exhibitions organized by Morris, “post -war Paris. Art and existentialism. 1945–1955 ”(1993),“ From zero to infinity. Arte Povera. 1962–1972 ”(2001),“ Henri Russo. Jungle in Paris ”(2005), exhibitions of the Louise Bourgeois (2007) and Yayoi Kusama (2012).