Difficult perhaps – probably – to succeed Chantal Prod’Hom, whose local roots and international ties were strong. Beatrice Leanza, with a long experience in China, then more recently from 2019 to 2020 in Lisbon, at the direction of MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology – may have found herself a little out of ground in Lausanne. French was thus not his language of choice – a fact that is of little consequence in the fields of contemporary art and design dominated by English, but perhaps matters more when it comes to manage an establishment in French-speaking lands.
The deputy director, Marco Costantini, in the interim
Simple suppositions since the Platform 10 Foundation announced yesterday in the press release, signed by its general manager, Patrick Gyger, that the decision not to continue its collaboration with Beatrice Leanza, director of Mudac, Cantonal Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts , at the end of its probationary period”, was due to “differences of a strategic nature” noted by the said foundation.
At Platform 10, we did not wish, for the time being, to comment on the news. “Marco Costantini will take the interim, nevertheless explained Patrick Gyger on the phone. The goal is to ensure the smooth running of current projects and future programming.” Marco Costantini is the current assistant director, and the former assistant of Chantal Prod’Hom. He knows the teams and the projects in progress, most of which were programmed before the arrival of Beatrice Leanza.
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