{"id":141152,"date":"2025-05-29T10:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/141152\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T10:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:27:11","slug":"former-cromwell-place-chief-appointed-director-of-glasgow-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/141152\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Cromwell Place chief appointed director of Glasgow International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">The Scottish curator Helen Nisbet has been appointed director of Glasgow International, Scotland\u2019s biennial contemporary art festival. She will take up the post ahead of the 11th edition next year (5-21 June 2026).<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">Nisbet was previously artistic director of the Art Night contemporary art festival in Dundee and the chief executive of Cromwell Place gallery hub in London. She also served as a jury member for the 2023 Turner Prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">She says in a statement: \u201cGlasgow International is a critical biennial which represents a diversity of contemporary and cultural practice, and it is a privilege to lead it into its next phase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">Art world figures such as Martin Clark, the director of Camden Art Centre, and Polly Staple, former director of collection (British Art) at the Tate, welcomed the appointment on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">The previous festival director was Richard Birkett, who last year presented what The Art Newspaper columnist Louisa Buck <a class=\"transition-all duration-default shadow-internalLink hover:text-red-900\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/2024\/06\/12\/glasgow-international-has-no-titlebut-it-certainly-has-a-point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described<\/a> as \u201cthe strongest and punchiest editions in recent years\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">Projects for the festival are selected through an open call from an invited panel of international and local artists, curators, producers and the Glasgow International Programme team. Both Nisbet and Birkett were on the selection panel for the 2026 Open Call, from which an artist list will be announced in due course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">Glasgow International is supported by Glasgow City Council, Creative Scotland and Glasgow Life,\u00a0the charitable trust responsible for running the city\u2019s cultural offer on behalf of the council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Scottish curator Helen Nisbet has been appointed director of Glasgow International, Scotland\u2019s biennial contemporary art festival. 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