Gerald Matt is an Austrian curator, author and as the director of the Vienna Art Institute, a privately financed cultural and social think tank, he is responsible for a monthly TV talk with interesting personalities from the cultural, social and political field. He is associate professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the CIAM (Center of International Art Management) in Cologne, where he teaches museum and exhibition management. He also lectures art theory at the Institute of Art History at the University of Innsbruck. At the same time he works as a senior consultant at Graf & Partner, a museum and art advising company.
From 1996 to 2012 Gerald Matt was director of Kunsthalle Vienna, an institution for international contemporary and modern Art.
At the Kunsthalle he organized dozens of popular and groundbreaking shows of artists like Edward Hopper, Bruce Nauman, Louise Bourgeois and Matthew Barney, themed shows on Surrealism and stardom. Many shows were collaborations with major international institutions like the Centre Pompidou and the Guggenheim Museum. He could enforce his expertise and experience as a long-term member of several committees of the museums in Bolzano and Bologna and of the temporary Kunsthalle Berlin.
Matt published several books on art and museum management, among them "Artists talk" (2014), "Gespräche, Austrian Art in the 60ies" (2011), "Economia e gestione di musei d'arte" with Alessia Zorloni (2011), "Kultura i pieniadze, Zarzadzanie muzeum" (2005) and "Kommentare zu Kunst, Kultur und Politik" (2006) and "Kunst und Geld, Das Museum, ein Unternehmen" (2001).
CURRICULUM
VITAE
EDUCATION
1978-1982 ⋯ Leopold-Franzens University, Innsbruck, Austria —PhD in Law
1981-1986 ⋯ Leopold-Franzens University, Innsbruck, Austria —Master of Business Economics
1981-1986 ⋯ Leopold-Franzens University, Innsbruck, Austria —Studies of History of Art
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
RECENT ACTIVITIES
since 2015 ⋯ Lecturer (Art Theory) at the Art History Institute, Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck, Austria
since 2012 ⋯ Senior Adviser for the Graf Moser Management GmbH (Feasibility Studies for Art Institutions, Museum Controlling Systems) Vienna, Austria
since 2007 ⋯ Extraordinary Professor at the University of Applied Arts (Museum Management and Theory of the Art System) Vienna, Austria
Since 2014 ⋯ Lecturer at the CIAM at the University of Cologne (Museum and exhibition Management) Cologne, Germany
since 2012 ⋯ Head of the Vienna Art Institute (Lectures, Publications, Curatorial practice, Exhibitions, Artist Curator of several exhibitions (see list of exhibitions below), TV Talks with Erwin Wurm, artist; Michael Haneke, filmmaker; Alfred Gusenbauer, former Prime Minister, a.o.) Vienna, Austria
PAST ACTIVITIES
1996-2012 ⋯ Director of Kunsthalle Wien (artistic and administrative Executive Director), Vienna, Austria
2007-2013 ⋯ Board member of the Ursula Blickle Art Foundation Karlsruhe-Kraichthal, Germany
1999-2002 ⋯ Spokesperson for the Art Institutions of MuseumQuartier Wien, Vienna, Austria
1994-1997 ⋯ Chairman of the board of WFF (Vienna Film Financing Fund), Vienna, Austria
1996-2001 ⋯ Representative of the City of Vienna for the project MuseumsQuartier Wien, board member of the Museumsquartier Construction and Facility Management Company, Vienna, Austria
1994-1996 ⋯ General Secretary of Kunsthalle Wien (Adminstrative Director of Kunsthalle Wien, responsible for the new construction projects of Kunsthalle Wien), Vienna, Austria
1992-1995 ⋯ Cultural Adviser to the Councilwoman for Cultural Affairs of Vienna, Dr. Ursula Pasterk, Vienna, Austria
1992-1994 ⋯ Curator for Magazin 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein Bregenz, Austria
1992 ⋯ Co-Funder of Magazin 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein Bregenz, Austria
1989-1992 ⋯ Department for International Affairs of the Federal Ministry of Culture (International Programs, Biennale Participations), Vienna, Austria
1988 ⋯ Chairman's Assistant (Art Programs, Sponsoring, Lobbying), Austrian Länderbank, Vienna Austria
1987 ⋯ Assistant, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
1986 ⋯ Sotheby's Trainee Programme, London, UK
1986 ⋯ Assistant, Austrian Parliament, Vienna, Austria
1985 ⋯ Judicial Clarkship Year at the Higher Regional Court, Innsbruck, Austria
1982-1984 ⋯ Assistant, Trustee and Accountancy Company Matt-Tschofen Associates, Bregenz, Austria
ACADEMIC ADVISORY COUNCILS
2009 ⋯ member of the Scientific Committee of the Galleria Civica di Trento, Trento, Italy (together with Hans Urlich Obrist)
2007-2009 ⋯ Member of the academic advisory council and curator of Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2001-2006 ⋯ Member of the academic advisory council of the Galleria d'Arte Moderna / Museum of Modern Art Bologna, Italy
1999-2005 ⋯ Member of the academic advisory council for the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano, Italy
2003-2004 ⋯ Jury member at the Dakar Biennal of Contemporary African Art Dakar, Senegal
FEASIBILITY STUDIES (Selection)
2012 ⋯ Locational Study Vienna-Berlin, Greek Private Collection, Vienna, Austria
2005 ⋯ Feasibility Study for the Glacier Museum, Vent, Tyrol, Austria
2003 ⋯ Feasibility Study concerning the Construction of a cultural center at the Vienna International Center, Vienna, Austria
2002 ⋯ Study for the reorganisation of the City Museum of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
1994 ⋯ Member of the Facility Study Team on the Guggenheim Museum Vienna, Vienna, Austria
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2015 ⋯ Lecturer at Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck, Austria
2014 ⋯ Lecturer at CIAM Center of International Art Management, Cologne, Germany
since 2007 ⋯ Extraordinary Professor at the University of Applied Arts (Museum Management and Theory of the Art System) Vienna, Austria
2007-2011 ⋯ Lecturer at CIAM Center of International Art Management, Cologne, Germany
2002-2011 ⋯ Lecturer at the Institute for Cultural Management (IKM), University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2002-2007 ⋯ Lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2007 ⋯ Lecturer at the Leopold-Franzens University, Innsbruck, Institute for Strategic Management, Innsbruck, Austria
PUBLICATIONS
2001 ⋯ Kultur und Geld. Das Museum — ein Unternehmen (Ein praxisorientierter Führer), Vienna
2002 ⋯ Publication in Serbo-Croatian of Kultur und Geld (Menadzment Muzeja), Belgrad
2003 ⋯ Künstler im Gespräch, 10 Jahre Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
2003 ⋯ Kulturmanagement leicht gemacht, Vienna
2005 ⋯ Pbblication in Polish of Kultur und Geld, das Museum ein Unternehmen (Kultura i pieniadze, Zarzadzanie muzeum), Warsaw
2006 ⋯ Kommentare zu Kunst, Kultur und Politik, Vienna
2006 ⋯ Interviews 1, (Gespräche mit 40 Künstlern von Shirin Neshat bis Anri Sala), Walter Koenig, Cologne
2007 ⋯ Interviews 2, (Gespräche mit 42 Künstlern von Matthew Barney bis Louise Bourgeois), Walter Koenig, Cologne
2008 ⋯ Publication in Ukrainian Kultur und Geld, das Museum als Unternehmen, Kiev
2011 ⋯ Economia e gestione die Musei, with Alessia Zorloni, Milano
2011 ⋯ Gespräche, Österreichische Kunst der 60er Jahre, Vienna
2014 ⋯ Artist talks, (Gespräche mit 46 Künstlern von Peter Blake bis Not Vital), Nuremberg
2014 ⋯ Museumsmanagement, von der Strategie bis zur Evaluierung, Vienna (in prep.)
2015 ⋯ Museums management from Strategy to Evaluation, Vienna (in prep.)
EXHIBITIONS AND ACCOMPANYING PUBLICATIONS (selected)
1992 ⋯ Assolutismo ed Eccentricità (mit Wolfgang Fetz), Vicenza, Bari
1993 ⋯ Seymour Likely, (mit Marion Damiani), Amsterdam
1994 ⋯ Frontiera (Austrian participation mit Wolfgang Fetz), Bolzano
1994 ⋯ Magazin im Magazin (mit Wolfgang Fetz), Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna
1997 ⋯ Matthew Barney, KH Wien, Vienna
1998 ⋯ Tracey Moffatt, KH, Vienna
1999 ⋯ Cuba, (mit Eugenio Figueroa), KH Wien, Vienna
1999 ⋯ Get together! (mit Marion Damiani, Wolfgang Fetz and Paolo Bianchi), KH Wien, Vienna
1999 ⋯ Cai Guo-Qiang, KH Wien, Vienna
2000 ⋯ Shirin Neshat, KH Wien, Vienna
2001 ⋯ Vanessa Beecroft, VB 45, KH Wien, Vienna
2001 ⋯ Vertigo, Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal/Karlsruhe
2001 ⋯ Steve McQueen, (mit Doris Krystof), KH Wien, Vienna
2001 ⋯ Gefesselt — Entfesselt (Spetani — Wyzwoleni), Österreichische Kunst im 20 Jhdt, (mit Hanna Wroblewska) Zacheta Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw
2002 ⋯ Kim Sooja, KH Wien, Vienna
2002 ⋯ Ugo Rondinone, KH Wien, Vienna
2003 ⋯ Anri Sala, KH Wien, Vienna
2003 ⋯ Heiliger Sebastian, (mit Wolfgang Fetz) KH Wien, Vienna
2004 ⋯ Artavazd Peleschjan, KH Wien, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichthal, Karlsruhe
2004 ⋯ Some Stories, Vienna 2005, (mit Roza El-Hassan), KH Wien, Vienna
2006 ⋯ Don Juan, KH Wien, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal/Karlsruhe
2007 ⋯ Die Toten, KH Wien, Vienna
2007 ⋯ True Romance (mit Belinda Grace Gardner, ua), KH Wien, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Museum Villa Stuck, München, Munich
2008 ⋯ Matthew Barney, Drawing Restraint, KH Wien, Vienna
2008 ⋯ Under Pain of death, ACF, New York
2009 ⋯ "1989", KH Wien, (mit Catherine Huck),Villa Schöningen, Berlin-Potsdam
2010 ⋯ McDermott & McGough, 26 Sandymount Avenue, KH Wien, Vienna
2011 ⋯ Bruce Conner, (mit Barbara Steffen), KH Wien, Vienna
2011 ⋯ Le Surèalisme c’est moi, KH Wien, Vienna
2011 ⋯ Carlo Mollino, KH Wien, Vienna
2012 ⋯ Urs Fischer, KH Wien, Vienna
2012 ⋯ Parallelwelt Zirkus (mit Verena Konrad), KH Wien, Vienna
2013 ⋯ Weegee, Flatz Museum, Dornbirn
2013 ⋯ A tribute to Joe Goode, Brot-Kunsthalle, Wien, Vienna
2014 ⋯ Araki-Teller, Teller-Araki, Ostlicht, Wien, Vienna
2014 ⋯ Mary Reid Kelley, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna
2015 ⋯ Mary Reid Kelley, Museum of New Media, Moscow
2015 ⋯ Jan Svankmajer, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Dornbirn, Austria, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam-Berlin, Germany