Christa Steinle

Christa Steinle (born Lindner; * 8. September 1951 in Graz ) is an Austrian art historian and author .

Professional background

In 1969 Steinle graduated from the Ursuline High School in Graz. From 1970 she studied art history , Romance philology (French, Italian) and philosophy at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz and at the Università per Stranieri in Perugia. She wrote her dissertation on the early graphic work of the Nazarenes with Wilfried Skreiner (1927–1994) and Heinrich Gerhard Franz. After her doctorate (1977) she worked as a research assistant at the Neue Galerie Graz .

Since 1993 she was deputy director, from 1998 to 2011 director of the Neue Galerie. Since then she has been working in the administrative department of the Universalmuseum Joanneum. Steinle acted as exhibition curator at home and abroad and presented numerous publications on art of the 19th and 20th centuries and contemporary art. She was also the director of the Phantom of Lust exhibition . Visions of masochism in art on the occasion of the Graz Capital of Culture 2003 (with curator Peter Weibel ). In 2003/04 she was Austrian commissioner for the 9th International Cairo Biennale, in 2005 curator of the exhibition Religion, Power, Art in the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (together with Rainer Metzger) and in 2006 curator of the exhibition Postmediale Kondition in the Centro Cultural Conde Duque , Medialab Center Madrid (together with Elisabeth Fiedler). From 2004 to 2006 Steinle was also a member of the Austrian Art Council of the Federal Chancellery.

In April 2016, the Federal Minister for Art and Culture appointed Christa Steinle as commissioner for the Austrian pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017. She selected Brigitte Kowanz and Erwin Wurm to use the pavilion.

literature

Selection:

• Hans Kupelwieser . Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2004, ISBN 3-7757-1462-6 .
• Fritz Panzer. Provincial Library, Weitra 2005, ISBN 3-85252-628-0 .
• Erwin Bohatsch . Gradients. Gradients. Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2006, ISBN 3-7757-1713-7 .
• Schmalix . Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2007, ISBN 978-3-7757-1927-8 .
• Viaggio in Italia. Italian art 1960 to 1990 from the collection of the Neue Galerie and the VAF Foundation , Frankfurt am Main, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86560-489-7 .
• Accent Hungary. Neue Galerie Graz at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz 2009, ISBN 978-3-902241-49-8 .
• Neue Galerie Graz: a film by Norbert Trummer. Weitra: Verl. Bibliothek der Provinz, Graz 2010, ISBN 978-3-902416-65-0 .
• BRUSEUM, a museum for Günter Brus . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-3262-8 .
• Modernism: the suicide of art. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3775732604 .
• The society of unlimited responsibility: art as social strategy. König, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-86335-014-7 .
• Wilhelm Thöny . In the pull of modernity, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3866787964 .
• Fritz Panzer. de Gruyter Verlag, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-85252-628-7 .
• Norbertine Bresslern-Roth - animal painter, Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, exhibition catalog, Graz: Leykam Buchverlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7011-8015-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Christa Steinle in the catalog of the German National Library

Footnotes

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive )