Hauser & Wirth has announced that curator and scholar Paul Schimmel has been named partner of the gallery, which represents over fifty established and contemporary artists and has locations in Zurich, London, and New York. Formerly the chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and codirector of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, Schimmel in his new role will develop and run the gallery’s new Los Angeles arts space, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, set to open in 2015. “Los Angeles has been an essential part of Hauser & Wirth‘s history from the very beginning,” gallery founding partner Iwan Wirth said. “In 1992, our first year in business, I saw Paul Schimmel’s LA MoCA exhibition 'Helter Skelter: LA Art in the 1990s,’ and for me it was a revelation. We have long dreamt of opening a space in Los Angeles and we are honored and delighted to have Paul Schimmel as our partner in realizing that dream.” Schimmel is a graduate of Syracuse University and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and received an honorary doctorate from the San Francisco Art Institute this past spring.