Curators

SYLVIA ECKERMANN

Eckermann is an artist commited to a discursive engagement with form and media that culminates in critical artistic reflections about our entanglement as individuals in current socio-economic situations. Eckermann works with various media including digital and physical environments, installations, videos, objects, and sculptures. Eckermann is the first recipient of the City of Vienna Award for Media Art (2014).

GERALD NESTLER

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Nestler is an artist, curator and writer who combines theory and text with video, installation, performance and speech to interrogate finance-based social models, methodologies and narratives. He graduated from the Academy of fine arts Vienna (1992) and conducted artistic fieldwork as broker and trader (1994-97). His most recent publication is Making of Finance (with Armen Avanessian, Merve Berlin, 2015). Nestler is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London.

MAXIMILIAN THOMAN

Thoman studies philosophy at the University of Innsbruck. Born in 1991, he belongs to the youngest generation of curators. He heads the media arts association medien.kunst.tirol and is a member of the managing committee of p.m.kplatform mobile cultural initiatives.

CO-Curators

BETTINA KOGLER

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Kogler has been following the development of the international, Austrian and Viennese performance scene for over 15 years and has engaged actively as a curator and programmer for 10 years. Conceptually, her understanding of performance is multi-disciplinary. It includes choreography, theater, music and the visual arts and emphasizes the critical role of art in society.

GERALD STRAUB

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Straub is an applied cultural theorist, artist and curator. His work interconnects spatial settings and site-specific behaviors examining how certain situations relate to one another under various socio-political conditions. Applying performative investigations, interventions and visual methods he explores the overlaps of art and in/formal knowledge production.

GEORG WECKWERTH

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Weckwerth is a Vienna and Berlin based independent curator and artist. Initiator of festivals, such as SoundArt and sonambiente, and of exhibitions focusing on sound, including The Potential Meanings of Sound, Vom Klang der Kunst, The Loudspeaker, Membra Disjecta for John Cage, Listen to Your City--Listening To Art, Connecting Sound Etc. Founder and chairman of TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien and artistic director of the ongoing sound project TONSPUR für einen öffentlichen raum, permanently located in the public space of MuseumsQuartier Wien, Austria, and temporarily located in other cities, including Berlin, Prague, Copenhagen and Karlsruhe. Recently he installed the permament exhibition Raum für Cage – Room for Cage at the widely known John Cage Organ Project in Halberstadt, Germany.