The Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA), the experimental project space of the Stedelijk Museum, is looking for a new location with the help of the non-profit foundation Ammodo and a team of three international curators. Sophie Goltz, the artistic director of Hamburg’s Stadtkuratorin; Eungie Joo, the curator of last year’s Sharjah Biennial; and Emily Pethick, the director of London’s Showroom, will assist in the search and participate in a series of public and private debates to help define how the new space will function. The SMBA, which closed on 1 July, had been located in the city centre since it opened in 1993, but the space was “quite limited”, a spokeswoman says. It had room only for straightforward presentations of work and the aim is for the “future SMBA to be more versatile”. The Stedelijk hopes to open the new outpost in spring 2017.
