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Karin Hindsbo (42) from Denmark is the new director of the national Museum.
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She takes over for Audun Eckhoff, who has been director of the national Museum since 2009.
– hiring a director for a new åremålsperiode is the board’s most important task. A total control agree that Karin Hindsbo will be the best to lead the national Museum into a new era, with co-location of Norway’s largest art collection at Vestbanen, ” says board chairman Linda Bernander Silseth in a press release.
It means that the current director, Audun Eckhoff, who also applied for the job, must give itself.
I would like to thank Audun Eckhoff, for a very important and good job through a pivotal and successful phase for the national Museum. I will especially point out that Eckhoff has established a new organization, has conducted a number of successful exhibition projects and has contributed to the besøksrekord no later than in 2016, ” says Silseth.
READ DN SATURDAY’s PORTRAIT WITH KARIN HINDSBO FROM MAY 2016 (DN+).
– Very humble
Hindsbo has in the last three years been director of the museum of fine arts CODE of Bergen. Åremålsperioden she enters in as the director of the national Museum lasts for six years.
” I am very happy for the confidence the board of directors it gives me and is also very humble. I’m looking forward to a good and close cooperation with a competent board of directors and not least the many incredibly talented employees in the national Museum, says Hindsbo, and continues:
– Nasjonalmuseets central task is to take care of Norway’s cultural heritage. At the same time, we have a responsibility to create enthusiasm around our amazing collection and show clearly the central role art plays in society, says when the director.
Hindsbo has a master’s degree in art history from Aarhus University, and was before she became head of the CODE the chief of Sørlandets Kunstmuseum in two years. Before that, she was director at Kunsthall Aarhus and The free Udstillingsbygning in Copenhagen.
Karin Hindsbo is one of the ablest museumsledere, and will be the right woman to lead the national Museum into a vital era. The board has emphasized her heavy management experience and experience from leadership in transition, artistic and academic background, her strong formidlingsevne and ability to talk up the art in a samfunnsperspektiv, ” says board chairman Linda Bernander Silseth.
– Has done a fabulous job
Hindsbo joins 1. June. She will then be responsible for managing Norway’s largest collection of Norwegian and foreign, historical and contemporary works and at the same time the responsibility for the move to the new art museum at Vestbanen in Oslo, norway in 2020.
In a press release from the CODE, praises the chairman of the board Henning Warloe job Hindsbo made by the museum of fine arts.
– She has done a fabulous job. In the course of three years has Karin Hindsbo completed a comprehensive organization know – and strategy process, given the entire museum a security and forvaltningsløft, created huge attention around the museum and arranged for the besøksrekord for the CODE. She is well liked and respected by both the staff and board of directors. A strong-willed, fearless and fashionable leader, who we wish good luck further, ” says Warloe.
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