Sabine Breitwieser is an international curator and museum director, currently based in Vienna, Austria, as independent scholar. She was a 2020/2021 Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Center in Los Angeles, a prestigious research program she continued in 2022. From 2013 until 2018 she was the Director of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Previously, from 2010 until 2013 she served as Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and headed one of the six specialist departments and collections. From 1988 until 2007 she was the Founding Director and Chief Curator of the Generali Foundation in Vienna. She organized and directed more than 150 monographic and thematic exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States and edited and published about 100 catalogues and books. In 2012, she received the Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts in New York.

Photo Maria Ziegelböck

About this Website

During my career as a museum director and curator, I have launched several comprehensive webpages. My first, 1995 in Vienna for the Generali Foundation, coincided with the opening of the museum building, and was perhaps one of the first in the field of art in general, at least in Austria. Among the earlier online projects were also websites for individual exhibitions, which at the time seemed to me to be a more suitable form to represent the project than a printed catalogue. In all these projects, I have always believed in the idea of a freely accessible archive, in sharing the development and status quo of content and themes, with the intention of providing knowledge and experience on the basis of which further research is made possible. I have realized that not only content, but entire webpages are disappearing online.

With this website, I would like to make my collection of knowledge and experience personally available, and as much as possible. At the same time, I would like to point out the usual conditions of use and remind you that the published content is legally protected. More than 30 years of exhibition and publication history can only be reviewed step by step, in addition to the ongoing projects, and I am therefore hoping that you will visit the growing website again and again.

My work could only come about through the collaboration with numerous artists, colleagues, and various partners, to whom I would like to express my collective thanks for their cooperation.