Claudia Schmuckli

Join us this Saturday, April 11, at 1 pm in the Koret Theatre at the de Young Museum for a talk by the great Didier William in the context of our annual Bransten lecture on Contemporary Art. Admission is free. See you there! For more information visit: /events/annual-bransten-lecture-didier-william

So excited for our 2919 exhibiting artist/producer couple Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata for being awarded an Oscar tonight for their short film “Two People Exchanging Saliva” . What a ride! So much love! @nmusteata @two_people_exchanging_saliva @legionofhonor #A Gothic Tale

Welcome in the epicenter of the art world! Here: Claudia Schmuckli, Chief Curator at the De Young Museum in talk with Leiko Ikemura to dicover her work at the Lisson Gallery LA for the USA! @lisson_gallery Now open in Los Angeles: Lisson Gallery presents ‚Leiko Ikemura: Riding Horizon.‘ For her first exhibition in Los Angeles, Leiko Ikemura presents a range of works produced over the past decade that explore the relationship between the female body and the natural world; between the heavens and the horizon line, or as she describes it: „the place where two worlds come together“. Through her fantastical treatment of the landscape painting genre, entering into the realms of reflection, dreamtime and even of conflict, the artist conjures up an otherworldly utopia in which humans and nature coexist within the melting vastness between the heavens of the cosmos and the oceanic spaces below. 24 February - 28 March 2026 at 1037 N. Sycamore Ave, Los Angeles Images: Exhibition view of Leiko Ikemura: Riding Horizon at Lisson Gallery Los Angeles, 24 February - 28 March 2026, Photos: PhvM © Leiko Ikemura, Courtesy Lisson Gallery @studioleikoikemura #Leikolkemura #LissonGallery #LissonLosAngeles Thanks for the wonderful tour @cschmuckli Claudia Schmuckli, Chief Curator at the De Young Museum and thanks for visiting: @clairesgilman #UdoKittelmann @tonyoursler @hansulrichobrist from @serpentineuk #art

It arrived! The „little“ book Isaac and I worked on for his show. „I Dream A World“ is entering its second life in print. Excited to hold it after so many months of waiting. So grateful to everyone who made both happen. @isaacjulien

Rose B. Simpson taking over the atrium of the de Young! LEXICON opens August 30. Join us for a daylong celebration on September 12! Big congratulations to @rosebsimpson and Hillary Olcott for persevering and getting those cars into the museum (we did have to take some windows out the facade). And to Maria for giving birth to a cruiser baby just in time for the show and welcoming her sister Bosque into the family. We promise to take good care of them all.

Last chance/week to see Isaac Julien’s epic exhibition “I Dream a World” before it closes after this Sunday, July 13. You will find me in the galleries savoring every minute. Come dream with us. We need artists and spaces to do so now more than ever. @isaacjulien @deyoungmuseum @henrikkamfoto Photography: Henrik Kam

Join us this Saturday, April 26 at 1pm for our Annual Bransten Lecture on Contemporary Art with Rose B. Simpson at the de Young museum. We’re excited to host her in advance of her exhibition LEXICON, opening August 30! @rosebsimpson @deyoungmuseum @legionofhonor @jessicasilvermangallery @native_art_culture

Thank you Veronica for this in depth review and the words you use to describe it: thrilling, sentinent, beautiful, urgent, intricate, capacious and most importantly worth repeating visits.

Who wants to "Dream a World" with Isaac Julien and me? His first US survey opens this Saturday, April 12 @ the de Young with 10 major video installations made since 1999 and 4 early films. Come sit with the work and join us for a conversation at 1 pm if you can tear yourself away. @isaacjulien @deyoungmuseum /exhibitions/isaac-julien

New Year 2025

📣 Are you 25 or under with a climate-focused project you want to take to the next stage? Apply now for @theworldaround ’s Young Climate Prize before our deadline on July 31. The prize is free to enter and attend, and open to individuals and groups of up to three anywhere in the world. Activism-driven curator Claudia Schmuckli (@cschmuckli ) is one of the multi-disciplinary cadre of Design Champions who will support this year’s Young Climate Prize cohort through seminars and mentorship over the course of the program. Claudia is the inaugural curator in charge of contemporary art and programming at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and a co-founder of the San Francisco Bay Area Collective Art+Climate Action (@artandclimateaction ). Since 2020, A+CA has united and supported museums, galleries, and artists in their efforts to understand and address the art sector’s climate impacts, while supporting and producing exhibitions and programs that foreground the climate emergency. At the Fine Arts Museums, Claudia curated several exhibitions on the intersection of environmental and social justice, including Specters of Disruption (2018), Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI (2020), Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are you Listening? (2021), Judy Chicago: A Retrospective (2021), and most recently Lee Mingwei: Rituals of Care (2024). To find out more about the Young Climate Prize and apply to join our second cycle, tap the link in bio 🔗 #YCPCycle02 #YoungClimatePrize #TheWorldAround #climateeducation #climateactivism #climateaction #climatejustice #youthclimateactivists #climateactionnow #sustainability

Chaque Souffle Une Danse by Lee Mingwei is now on view at Minnesota Street Project Foundation through May 5. Don’t miss this magical performance presented in conjunction with Lee’s survey at the de Young. For (free!) tickets visit /lee-mingwei-chaque-souffle-une-danse. Thank you MSPF for this wonderful collaboration. See you there! @mspfoundation @deyoungmuseum Photos courtesy Wendy Norris.