Barbara Wally

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Barbara Wally (born October 20, 1947 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian art historian and cultural mediator.

Life

Barbara Wally studied in Paris, Florence and Salzburg. Her father was Leopold Wally, a member of the Salzburg state parliament and member of the Federal Council (1966–1978). From 1974 to 1978 she was a lecturer at the universities of Linz and Salzburg. In 1976 she received her doctorate from the University of Salzburg . From 1978 to 1981 she was curator and deputy director of the Kunsthalle Nürnberg . In 1981 she became managing director of the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts in Salzburg . From 2000 to 2008 she was its director, where she was replaced by Hildegund Amanshauser in March 2009 after 28 years of work .

It shaped the international primacy of this institution through the appointment of recognized artists, the opening up to non-Western art tendencies and artists, a top-class art-theoretical accompanying program and the networking with partner institutions in Shanghai , Irkutsk , Rome , Fayoum / Egypt , Adjman and Chicago .

Barbara Wally has lived mainly in Sanaa , Yemen , since 2008 . There she is running a media academy for women.

Research priorities

Her research interests are women artists in the 20th century, art of the interwar period , feminist art , media art , current art, art and the public, female artist careers, artistic teaching, art and religion, the history of the summer academy, as well as contemporary architecture and the architecture of Yemen .

She gave lectures on these topics at universities and art schools in Austria, Germany, Denmark, Italy, the Czech Republic, Romania, Russia, China, USA, VAR. She edited several catalogs and books and published over 200 essays in books, catalogs and journals. She is a member of juries and committees for contemporary art and architecture and their teaching.

Books (selection)

  • Chemnitz art collections and East German gallery Regensburg 2006/7. ISBN 3-86678-041-9 . Text "About chapels, caves and erotic misery" (German / English)
  • Zhou Brothers - 10 years Salzburg 1998 - 2007. ISBK Salzburg 2007. ISBN 978-3-901369-29-2 . Interview with the artists (German / English)
  • Rivka Rinn. ISBK and Edition Fotohof No. 87, Salzburg, 2007. ISBN 978-3-901369-30-8 . Text “Transitory. From traveling, seeing and photographing "(d / e)
  • Rona Pondick. Works 1986 - 2008 ISBK Salzburg, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac , Paris-Salzburg and Galerie Sonnabend, New York, 2008. ISBN 978-3-901369-32-2 . Interview with the artist (German / English)
  • Gil Shachar. Museum Schwäbisch Gmünd, No. 36 and Tel Aviv Museum 7/08. ISBN 978-3-936988-13-0 . Text contribution “Head or Scarf. About the sculptures by Gil Shachar "(German / E / Heb.)
  • Hosted. A village as a performance space - as a walk-in installation. Regional 08. Bucher Verlag, Hohenems 2008. ISBN 978-3-902612-86-1 . Text contribution “Mathbachi fi Sanaa. My kitchen in Sanaa "(d)

Filmography and videos

  • “Oskar Kokoschka: the school of seeing”, documentary film, ISBK, Salzburg 2003. 15:30 min., Book and co-editing
  • "The Power of Language". Video collage with excerpts from works, interviews and speeches by and with Elfriede Jelinek , VALIE EXPORT and Olga Neuwirth. (Design: Carmen Kordas), New York 2005; 50 min., Book and co-editing
  • “Nancy Spero”, documentary film on the occasion of the presentation of the Herbert Boeckl Prize 2009. (Camera / design: Carmen Kordas; sound: Milica Paranosic ); New York 2009, 25 min., Interview with the artist, editor.

Movies

  • Arab Attraction. Documentary by Andreas Horvath. 2010, 90 min.
  • Barbara Wally - cross-border commuter, foreign commuter. Feature by Katrin Mackowski. ORF “Kreuz und Quer”, 2009, 45 min.

Awards

Participation in specialist committees

  • Jury member for the Shanghai Design Biennial
  • Member of the Comitato Scientifico, Accademia Primavera, Rome
  • Advisory Committee, Fayoum Winter Academy
  • Jury member 2000 and 2002 Culture Prize of the Greens (Culture Prize for "Human Rights and Integration")

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brenner at the opening of the International Summer Academy / Great Merit of the State for Prof. Barbara Wally . Salzburg state correspondence of July 20, 2009, accessed on March 23, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Wally, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg