Career Moves

In late August, Mami Kataoka, director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, and Arja Miller, director of the Helsinki Art Museum (HAM) and the Helsinki Biennial, were named the head curators of the 2027 Helsinki Biennial. The event will be held across multiple locations across the city, including HAM and the former military island of Vallisaari.

On September 2, Christie’s announced Rahul Kadakia as its new president in the Asia Pacific, effective January 2026. Kadakia joined Christie’s in 1996, working in London, Geneva, and New York. Currently the international head of jewelry, he will move to Hong Kong and oversee Christie’s Global Luxury and Asian & World Art Groups upon assuming his new role.

In the same month, Lina Ghotmeh was commissioned to design the Jadids’ Legacy Museum in Bukhara, marking the Paris-based Lebanese architect’s first project in Central Asia. Slated to open in 2027, the museum will be transformed from the former residence of Uzbek educator, journalist, and politician Usmon Khodjaev, who was a leading figure of the Jadid reform movement in the early
20th century.