The Guggenheim museum announces the appointment of Suzanne Cotter, Curator of Exhibitions, Abu Dhabi Project, and Reem Fadda, Associate Curator for Middle Eastern Art, Abu Dhabi Project.
Ms. Cotter and Ms. Fadda will join members of the Abu Dhabi Project team to develop future exhibition programming for the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and to advise on the creation of its art collection focused on international postwar art.
They will report to Juan Ignacio Vidarte, Deputy Director and Chief Officer of Global Strategies, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and work in close association with the Guggenheim Museum’s senior curatorial staff under the direction of Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
Suzanne Cotter, Curator of Exhibitions, Abu Dhabi Project
Since 2002 and up until her appointment as Curator of Exhibitions, Abu Dhabi Project, Ms. Cotter held several succeeding positions at Modern Art Oxford, including Senior Curator, Deputy Director, and Curator at Large. She also served as Acting Director during the institution’s search for new leadership. From 1998 to 2002, she served as Exhibitions Curator at the Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, London. She has extensive curatorial experience, having organized more than thirty exhibitions of contemporary art, including the group exhibitions Out of Beirut and Transmission Interrupted with Gilane Tawadros and solo exhibitions with leading international artists. She received the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Ministry of Culture and Communication in 2005.As Curator of Exhibitions, Ms. Cotter will conceive and organize special exhibitions, oversee exhibition installations, develop public programs with education staff to accompany exhibitions, and oversee exhibition catalogues and related published materials in coordination with Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum staff. Ms. Cotter received a postgraduate diploma in cultural leadership from City University, London; an MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London; and a Diplôme du Premier Cycle from the Ecole du Louvre, Paris.
Reem Fadda, Associate Curator for Middle Eastern Art, Abu Dhabi Project
Ms. Fadda is an active curator and cultural practitioner, focusing on contemporary cultural and aesthetic theory and practice in the Middle East. She was Director of the Palestinian Association for Contemporary Art from 2005 to 2007 and worked as Academic Director to the International Academy of Art Palestine, which she helped found in 2006. She received an MA in curating from Goldsmiths College, London, and is currently a Fulbright Scholar pursuing a PhD in the history of art and visual studies at Cornell University. Ms. Fadda has extensive curatorial experience, having curated and coorganized several art projects and exhibitions, most recently Tarjama/Translation at the Queens Museum of Art in 2009 and, with Charles Esche, the Third Riwaq Biennale in Ramallah. As Associate Curator for Middle Eastern Art for the Abu Dhabi Project, she will conceive and organize special exhibitions of modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art, advise on the Middle Eastern collection, and directly participate in regional cultural activities.
