Jérôme Sans appointed creative director of Lago/Algo cultural centre in Mexico City

Jérôme Sans, co-founder of Paris's Palais de Tokyo, will lead Lago/Algo, a new cultural centre in Mexico City's Chapultepec Park. The modernist pavilion, originally built in 1964 and long used as a restaurant, will operate under a hybrid commercial and non-commercial model without public funding. Sans previously directed Beijing's Ullens Center for Contemporary Art from 2008 to 2012 and curated biennials in Taipei (2000) and Lyon (2005). His most recent curatorial project featured Erwin Wurm at Belgrade's Museum of Contemporary Art in 2022. Gallery OMR, which announced the appointment, describes the venue as a laboratory for innovative social and cultural models informed by radical contemporary practices. Sans co-founded Palais de Tokyo in 2002 with Nicolas Bourriaud, co-directing the Paris institution for its first six years. Lago/Algo is not part of the broader Bosque de Chapultepec Naturaleza y Cultura masterplan for the park.