New director for Tate Modern - Artworld

The Tate Modern has selected Vicente Todoli, 43, as its new director. Todoli, who has been the director of the Museu Serralves de Arte Contemporanea in Porto, Portugal, since 1996, assumes his position at the Tate Modern in early 2003. From 1986 to 1996, he was chief curator and then artistic director of IVAM (Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno) in Valencia, Spain. He has also served on advisory committees for the ICA Amsterdam, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the 1995 Carnegie International and the "Future Present Past" exhibition at the 1997 Venice Biennale.

While at IVAM, the Spanish-born curator organized shows on such internationally known artists as John Baldessari, James Rosenquist, Richard Tuttle, Tony Cragg, Juan Munoz and Juliao Sarmento. At the Museu Serralves, he curated shows on James Lee Byars, Franz West, Gary Hill, Lothar Baumgarten, Roni Horn, and Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, among others.

Todoli replaces Lars Nittve, who joined the Tate Modern in 1998 and left in 2001 to become director of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

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