Lars Nittve (born 17 September 1953) is a Swedish museum director, curator, art critic and writer.
[8] During the same period he has been Senior art critic for the Swedish daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm,[9] and contributed regularly to Artforum, New York City.
[13][14] From 1990 to 1995, he served as the founding Director of Rooseum – Center for Contemporary Art – in Malmö, Sweden,[4] where he organized the whole exhibition program, including surveys of "Susan Rothenberg",[15] "Allan McCollum",[16][17] "Sherrie Levine"[18] and "Andreas Gursky".
[23] Other exhibitions include "Time and Place: Los Angeles 1957–1968" (2008);[24] "Anthony McCall" (2009)[25] and most recently "Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting" (2010).
[26] During his time at the Moderna Museet, Nittve was instrumental in the fundraising effort (70 million USD) that strengthened the collection and oversaw the expansion of the institution – including The Second Museum of Our Wishes, which focuses on bringing more works by women artists into the collection,[27][28] the creation of the innovative Renzo Piano designed Pontus Hultén Study Gallery (opened in May 2008),[29] The American Friends of the Moderna Museet Inc. and the opening of Moderna Museet Malmö in 2009.