Florian Steininger

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Florian Steininger (* 1974 in Vienna ) is an Austrian art historian , exhibition organizer and museum director .

Live and act

Steininger studied art history from 1993 to 1999 at the University of Vienna under Peter Haiko . From 1999 to 2001 he was a member of the art education team at the Essl Collection and the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien . From 2001 he acted as exhibition curator for the latter .

He is the author of numerous essays, supervises curatorial projects on modern and contemporary art and can refer to numerous publications in art magazines (including Parnass , Falter , Vernissage ) and catalogs . From 1999 to 2003 he wrote art reviews for the Austrian daily newspaper Die Presse . He has worked several times as a specialist jury member in awarding art prizes (including the Ö 1 Talent Exchange , Format Jury , Anton Faistauer Prize , Prize for Young Austrian Printmaking, Art Award of the Strabag Art Forum, etc.).

Since July 2016 he has been the artistic director of the Kunsthalle Krems .

Professional background

Curatorial projects / exhibition catalogs in the Bank Austria Kunstforum (selection)

Further curated exhibitions or texts in exhibition catalogs (selection)

  • 2004: Neue Wilde: A Development ( Essl Collection , Klosterneuburg) (curated with Gabriele Bösch; exhib. Cat. With essays)
  • 2013: Museum Angerlehner , Thalheim , Wels (opening exhibition) (curated; exhib. Cat. With text contributions)
  • 2014: Looser Collection . Private Passion - Public Wealth ( Kunsthaus Zürich ) (curated by Philippe Büttner; exhib. Cat. With essays)
  • 2016:
    • Looser Collection - Museum Folkwang (Rothko Scully. Kline de Kooning. Pollock Twombly) a dialogue (curated with Mario von Lüttichau; exhib. Cat. With articles)
    • Bernhard Leitner (Zeitkunst Niederösterreich, St. Pölten) (curated; exhib. Cat. With text contributions)
  • 2017:
    • Collection Looser . Restless Gestures (National Museum Oslo) (curated by Ingvild Krogvig; exhib. Cat. With essays)

Exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Krems

Other published essays (selection)

"Karel Appel", in: Karel Appel. The power will of the planets, exh. Cat.Gallery Ulysses, Vienna 2001.

“ Herbert Brandl , Immediate Immediateness in Process”, in: Herbert Brandl, exhib. Cat.Gallery next St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna , 1999.

Herbert Brandl , “Monotypes at speed and the abstract landscape”, in: Herbert Brandl. Mountains and Landscapes /, Monotypes 2009/20010, Exh . Catalog Albertina , Vienna 2010.

" Günther Förg , Painterly Paint", in: Günther Förg. Back and Forth, exhibition cat. Art of the Present Essl Museum , Vienna / Klosterneuburg 2007.

“ Martha Jungwirth . Painting next to the Schuach ”, in: Realities, Exh. Cat. Museum Liaunig , Suha 2015.

“New Art for Zurich: Abstract Expressionism, Arte Povera and Minimal Art”, in: The Hubert Looser Collection at the Kunsthaus Zürich , exh. Cat. Kunsthaus Zurich 2013.

“ Arnulf Rainer , Picturesque Color Veils”, in: Arnulf Rainer. New pictures 2000-2002, exh. Cat.Gallery Ulysses, Vienna 2003, no p.

Looser Collection : Private Passion - Public Wealth (all text contributions), Fondation Looser 2014

Hubert Scheibl , “Hallucinatory Membrane and Torn Skin”, in: Magic Mushrooms, exhib. Cat. Museum der Moderne , Salzburg 2013

“ Sean Scully : Picturesque Minimalism”, in: Sean Scully, Jon Groom, exh. Cat. Gallery 422, Gmunden 2004.

" Sean Scully - In Painting", in: Sean Scully. Bricklayer of the Soul, Ostfildern 2015

" Günter Umberg : Territory of painting", in: Günter Umberg, exhib. Cat. Galerie Haas, Zurich 2015

"Under the open sky", in: Under the open sky. Sculpture in Ambras Castle Park , exh. Cat. Ambras Castle Park / Galerie Elisabeth and Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Steininger , in: Web presence of the European Forum Alpbach queried on November 3, 2015
  2. ↑ Florian Steininger , in: Web presence of the Lower Austrian State Museum queried on November 3, 2015
  3. ^ Kunsthalle Krems: Team . Retrieved June 19, 2016.
  4. ↑ orf.at - Kunsthalle closes temporarily . Article dated June 19, 2016, accessed June 19, 2016.
  5. ^ Exhibition list of the Bank Austria Art Forum. In: Website of the Bank Austria Art Forum. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  6. ^ Exhibition Neue Wilde. In: Essel Collection - Museum of the Essel Collection. January 21, 2004, accessed June 10, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Previous exhibitions of the Angerlehner Museum. In: Museum Angerlehner. September 13, 2013, accessed June 10, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Hubert Looser, Florian Steininger, Looser Collection: Looser Collection: private passion - public wealth . Ed .: Fondation Hubert Looser. Fondation Hubert Looser, 2014, p. 71 .
  9. ↑ BERNHARD LEITNER. SOUND - SPACE - SCULPTURE. In: http://www.zeitkunstnoe.at . July 31, 2016, accessed June 10, 2018 .
  10. ^ Team of the Kunsthalle Krems. In: Website of the Kunsthalle Krems. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Steininger, Florian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian and exhibition organizer
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna