In the winter of 1989 MK leaves the Lucerne Museum and moves to New York where he plans to open a European-style Kunsthalle, a type of exhibition space that he finds lacking in the city's vital art scene. He had to build up the institution with help of European Art Philantropists from scratch. The building which was selected was still in use as a well known, but run down film studio near Cooper Union, the “Mother’s Film stages”, set up an non-for-profit organisation “The New York Kunsthalle”. To be invoved with planning the architectural trasformation of the 45’00 sqtt 3-story building into a institutional the Art Gallery was most fascinating, The first cosen was Frank Gehry who liked to do a type of Temporary Contemporary like in LA , but with a historic building In this phase MK had to manage and supervise also his last project for Lucerne: an extensive William Wegman retrospective, which after its first stop in Lucerne travels to four additional museums in Europe and subsequently to five institutions in the United States, the Whitney Museum among them.