The Victorian government and the National Gallery of Victoria have announced four new jurors for the competition to design the NGV Contemporary gallery.
The new jury members, who hail from across the globe, will join NGV director Tony Ellwood, Victorian Government Architect Jill Garner, and NGV trustee, architect and jury chair Corbett Lyon. The new jurors include three architects and an Indigenous artist and curator.
Dutch architect Francine Houben is founding partner of multi-disciplinary practice Mecanoo, which she established in 1984. The practice has an extensive portfolio of award-winning buildings. Houben was named Woman Architect of the Year by the Architects’ Journal in 2014 and in 2015, she received the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Prize from Queen Máxima of the Netherlands for her career achievements.
Xu Tiantian.
Xu Tiantian is founding principal of DnA Architecture in Beijing. She studied architecture and urban design at Harvard University and worked as a senior architect at OMA in Rotterdam. She was awarded the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture in 2019 by The Architects’ Journal and Architectural Review and has also received the Young Architects Award from The Architectural League New York and the WA Award for Chinese Architecture from World Architecture magazine.
Gerard Reinmuth.
Image: courtesy NGV
Australian architect Gerard Reinmuth is the founding director of Terroir, which has studios in Sydney, Hobart and Copenhagen. Reinmuth was a creative director of the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2009 National Architecture Conference as well as creative director of Australia’s exhibition at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. Terroir’s recent projects include the Penguin Parade Visitor Centre, the Puffing Billy Railway Visitor Centre and the Tornhuset Maritime Museum in Malmö, Sweden, designed with Kim Utzon Architecture.
Maree Clarke.
Image: Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre
Finally, Maree Clarke is a a Yorta Yorta/ Wamba Wamba/Mutti Mutti/Boonwurrung woman and an independent multi-disciplinary artist and curator. She has worked in the contemporary and cultural First Nations arts sector for more than three decades. Her work involves possum skin, kangaroo teeth, echidna quills, glass and photography. She is also a curator of the Koorie Heritage Trust and Wyndham Art Gallery.
The announcement of the new jurors also coincides with the opening of expressions of interest for the design competition. Registrations for the competition close on 9 March.
