The Groninger Museum has appointed a new two-person board that will start its work in February 2025.
GIC reported that for the first time in history, the Groninger Museum will have a female director. Roos Gortzak, currently the director of the Vleeshal in Middelburg, has been appointed as the director who will take care of the museum’s programming. She will lead the museum together with Jan Geert Vierkant, who will be responsible for the business side.
GIC cited Gortzak saying she is incredibly excited to build on the museum’s idiosyncratic character.
“From a tombstone for a dog from 1758, a flower still life by Odilon Redon, a cat candlestick from the Qing dynasty to dresses by Hussein Chalayan, furniture by the Memphis group and magazines by Hendrik Werkman with the appropriate title The next call. It is an honour for me to do this starting in February, in collaboration with the new business director and the entire team,” Gortzak said.