LONDON.- Vincent Honoré and Cliff Lauson have been appointed Senior Curators of Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre. Cliff Lauson will take up the post in November 2017, having been Curator at Hayward Gallery since 2009. Vincent Honoré will join Hayward Gallery in December 2017 as the Gallery prepares to reopen with Andreas Gursky on 25 January 2018. Andreas Gursky marks the beginning of Hayward Gallery’s 50th anniversary year and is the first exhibition to take place in the Gallery following its two-year refurbishment. For the first time since the gallery’s original opening, the gallery’s pyramid roof lights will allow natural light into the spaces below. Vincent and Cliff will work alongside Ralph Rugoff, Director of Hayward Gallery.

Vincent is a London-based curator who joins us from DRAF (David Roberts Art Foundation) where he has held the post of Chief Curator, since 2007. He played a key role in the creation and development of the Foundation which opened in 2007, and has since been responsible for leading an innovative exhibitions and live art programme. He has curated solo shows with artists such as Fiona Banner, Huma Bhabha and Rosemary Trockel and commissioned works and performances by Sarah Lucas, Laure Prouvost and Goshka Macuga. Before starting at DRAF, Vincent held Assistant Curator roles at both Palais de Tokyo and Tate Modern, where he co-curated their critically acclaimed 2006 Pierre Huyghe exhibition. Vincent Honoré was also recently announced as the Artistic Director for the 13th Baltic Triennial which will take place in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, from May to November 2018.

Since arriving at Hayward Gallery in 2009, Cliff has curated major solo exhibitions of work by Martin Creed, Ernesto Neto, Tracey Emin and David Shrigley as well as critically-acclaimed group exhibitions Light Show and History Is Now: 7 Artists Take On Britain. Cliff has also been responsible for several exhibitions in the Hayward Gallery Project Space and has led on the series of Waterloo Billboard commissions. In addition, Cliff has commissioned numerous artworks and projects for Southbank Centre’s festival programme. Cliff was previously Assistant Curator at Tate Modern, completed his PhD at University College London, and was a 2015-6 Fellow of the Clore Leadership Programme. He currently serves on the British Council Collection Acquisitions Advisory Group.

Ralph Rugoff, Director, Hayward Gallery, said: “Vincent brings with him a wealth of curatorial experience and I am thrilled to welcome him to the Gallery team. I am also delighted that Cliff has now been promoted to Senior Curator after having curated several successful exhibitions at Hayward Gallery, including Light Show which toured internationally. It is a very exciting period in the Gallery’s history and I very much look forward to working closely with them both on the forthcoming programme.”

Vincent Honoré said: “I am thrilled to join Ralph Rugoff and his team at Hayward Gallery, ahead of the reopening of this brutalist masterpiece and its 50th birthday. I look forward to contributing to this unique institution’s history and building on its extraordinary achievements."

Cliff Lauson said: “Curating in the Hayward Gallery and on the Southbank Centre site is both a pleasure and an adventure. I look forward to continuing to develop aspects of the Gallery’s inventive and distinctive programme, and to working closely with its remarkably talented staff.”

The two new Senior Curator posts were created to succeed Stephanie Rosenthal, who will be taking up a new position as Director of the Martin-Gropius-Bau museum in February 2018, after ten years at Southbank Centre as Chief Curator of Hayward Gallery.

Hayward Gallery will be announcing its 50th anniversary programme in the coming weeks.