Suhanya Raffel, Director of M+, has been appointed President of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM) for 2023–2025.
Raffel has led the M+, a visual art museum in Hong Kong, since 2019. She is also a founding Committee Member of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka (MMCA Sri Lanka).
Raffel said, “To serve as the next President of CIMAM is an honour, and I am excited to work together with my fellow board members to contribute to our modern and contemporary art museum community as we face a complex and challenging world.”
She said, “The past three years have been much tumultuous, with the Covid-19 pandemic adding a further degree of separation within our societies. In this context, the roles our museums play in bringing people together, with the work of artists providing insight, vision, and perspective has become ever more urgent.”