Swiss Art Museum Appoints First-Ever Botanical Curator, Backed by Chanel Culture Fund

Swiss art museum appoints first-ever botanical curator, backed by Chanel Culture Fund

The move presents a new model for arts institutions — expanding the idea of curatorial expertise beyond the white walls of a gallery and into the living landscape.

Chanel and Fondation Beyeler Pioneer a New Kind of Curator

The Fondation Beyeler and the Chanel Culture Fund have appointed the first-ever Chanel Botanical Curator, establishing a new model for how museums engage with their natural surroundings and elevating nature to part of the museum’s collection. Rahel Kesselring, a researcher at Humboldt University in Berlin whose work examines regeneration and rewilding practices in contemporary art, will take on the position beginning November 1. The curatorshi…