Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst

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Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst
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Occupation Art curator
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Parent(s) Mark Dent-Brocklehurst (father)
Elizabeth Chipps (mother)

Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst is a British art curator and former president of London's Pace Gallery. She is the co-founder and chief creative officer of Superblue, a company she founded in 2020. She and members of her family own Sudeley Castle, [1] where she has curated sculpture exhibitions.

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Art career

Dent-Brocklehurst began her career in the mid-1900s at Sotheby’s London and then in New York. It was there that she joined the Gagosian Gallery, becoming a director in 1997. In 1999, Dent-Brocklehurst returned to London to orchestrate the opening of Gagosian’s first London Gallery where she became the first director until 2008. [2] [3] She worked alongside Dasha Zhukova to found The Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture in Moscow that same year. [4] Parallel to this, between 2004 and 2008, Dent-Brocklehurst organized the reconstruction sculpture project at Sudeley Castle, her ancestral home. [2] [5] [6] This project triggered a number of similar exhibitions, such as those at Chatsworth and Blenheim Palace, which brought monumental contemporary sculpture to Grade I listed grounds. [7] [8]

In 2010, she was appointed to set up the first branch of Pace Gallery in London, [3] where she was the president from 2012 to 2017. [9] [10] [11] [12] In 2017, she joined the Founder of FutureCity, Mark Davy, in a two-year project named Future/Pace, which aimed to extend the reach of contemporary art beyond the conventional boundaries of gallery walls, bringing it into the public domain. [13] Future/Pace delivered site-specific contemporary art projects by artists such as Leo Villareal and Studio Drift. [14] [15]

In 2020, she co-founded Superblue with Marc Glimcher and Laurene Powell Jobs. [16] [17] Superblue opened its first space in Miami in 2021 following delays related to the COVID-19 pandemic. [18] [19] Superblue's emphasis on immersive and experimental art, together with its revenue-sharing model with artists, set it apart from other traditional museums and galleries. [20] In September 2023, Dent-Brocklehurst was appointed chief creative officer of Superblue, and Marc Spiegler joined the Superblue board of directors. [21]

Personal life

Dent-Brocklehurst married Duncan Ward in 2002 and they have two children. [2] They divorced in 2012. [2]

Ancestry

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