In 2024, Trampoline facilitates a research trip exchange program in collaboration with Phileas – Austrian Office for Contemporary Art. A group of curators from France travelled to Austria for five days, while Trampoline hosts a group of curators from Austrian institutions for a similar visit to France.
Selected Austria-based curators :
Nadja Ayoub, Director, Kunstraum Schwaz, Tyrol
Born 1985 in Innsbruck. Studied art history in Innsbruck. Worked as a freelance curator between 2013 and 2021. Organisator of the Art Festival Premierentage in Innsbruck (2012/13). Development of several art educational programs for children and young people, including the ongoing project “Culture as a field of work”. Since 2021 she is the director of the Kunstraum Schwaz in Tyrol.
Ramesch Daha, President, Secession, Vienna
Ramesch Daha, born 1971 in Tehran, has lived in Vienna since 1978. In her multipart pieces, the artist works with a variety of media, including painting, collage, video and drawing, as well as documents from public and personal archives. Based on extensive historical research, Daha connects biographical and historical aspects, collective memories, and historical and political events in new constellations. This involves extensive traveling and study visits to, among other places, Vancouver, New York, London, or Berlin. Daha’s works have been shown in numerous international solo and group exhibitions, including KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin (2020) ; Landesgalerie Niederösterreich, Krems (2020) ; Index Foundation, Stockholm (2020) ; Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (2018) ; NSK State Pavilion of the 57th Venice Biennale (2017) ; 21er Haus Wien, Vienna (2017) ; Austrian Cultural Forum New York ; Kunstpavillon Munich(2014). Her works are in private and public collections, including the Albertina, Vienna ; Joanneum Graz ; Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin and the City of Vienna Collection, Vienna. Currently, Ramesch Daha serves as the president of Secession, Vienna.
Verena Gamper, Curator Collection 20th Century, Belvedere 21, Vienna
Verena Gamper is an art historian and curator with a research focus on the theory and critique of modernism, intermediality and interdisciplinarity, history of reception and exhibition history, forms of appropriation and authorship. She has been curator of the 20th century collection at the Belvedere since 2023, realizing the exhibitions Visionary Spaces. Walter Pichler Meets Frederick Kiesler in a Display by Sonia Leimer and Angelika Loderer. Soil Fictions. Previously, she was curator at Kunsthalle Krems from 2014 to 2017 (Abstract – Spatial. Painting in Space ; Tobias Pils : Untitled ; Remastered : The Art of Appropriation), and at Leopold Museum from 2018 to 2022 (The Body Electric : Erwin Osen – Egon Schiele ; Ludwig Wittgenstein : Photography as Analytical Practice, among others).
Marijana Schneider, Curator Contemporary Art, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg
Marijana Schneider is an art historian and curator (contemporary art) at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Her focus is on feminist engagement with the body, sculpture and space, and artistic approaches characterized by process orientation and performative thinking. She curated and co-curated the exhibitions Begin Suddenly in Splendour. Rose English and Playing Rules ! The Collections (both in 2024) Maria Bartuszová (2023), Jasmina Cibic. Political Decadence (2022), Yinka Shonibare CBE. End of Empire (2021), Fiona Tan. Mit der anderen Hand / With the other Hand (2020), Bodies–Cities (2019), among many others.
Franz Thalmair, Curator, mumok, Vienna
Curator, editor, and writer, based in Vienna, Austria | Studies of Romance Philology (Linguistics) in Salzburg, Paris, and Barcelona | Curator for contemporary art, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (since 2019) | Artistic co-director, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt (since 2018) | Managing curator, Secession, Vienna (2010-2014) | Visiting professor and lecturer, University of Applied Arts Vienna, TransArts – Transdisciplinary Art (since 2013) | Lecturer, University of Klagenfurt, Visual Culture / Cultural Analysis (2018-2021) | Curatorial director of the arts-based research project “originalcopy – Post-digital Strategies of Appropriation”, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Media Theory (2016-2019) | Head of the culture and arts department, derStandard.at (2007-2010) | Since 2007 comprehensive writing for media such as Artforum, Kunstforum International, Springerin – Hefte für Gegenwartskunst, Camera Austria, Eikon, as well as numerous contributions to exhibition catalogues | Freelance curatorial and editorial projects for institutions such as Palacio de la Escuela de Medicina, UNAM (Mexico City), Wiels (Brussels), Greylight Projects (Brussels), Karst (Plymouth, UK), Akbank Art Center (Istanbul), Mala Galerija – Moderna Galerija (Ljubljana), Galerija Galzenica (Velika Gorica) etc.
Bärbel Vischer, Curator Contemporary Art Collection, MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
Bärbel Vischer is curator of contemporary art at the MAK Museum of Applied Art in Vienna. Since 2011, she is also head of the MAK Contemporary Art Collection and has organized solo and group exhibitions with Austrian and international artists from different generations, who often develop new productions and whose works are acquired for the museum collection wherever possible. Her exhibitions have featured works by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Leonor Antunes, Geta Brătescu, Vincent Fecteau, Sonia Gomes, Liam Gillick, Dorota Jurczak, Kapwani Kiwanga, Ciprian Mureşan, Walter Pichler, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Willem de Rooij, Dorothea Tanning, Franz West, among others.
Accompanied by Anna Hugo, Visitor Programme, Phileas.
