Gerald Matt

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Gerald Matt (* 1958 in Hard ) is an Austrian cultural manager . Until March 2012 he was director of the Kunsthalle Wien . Today he works as a consultant for a cultural management company. Since 2015 he has been director of the Vienna Art Institute (Institute for Art and World, Herrengasse 6–8). Matt is also responsible for the television shows "Matt Talks To" and "The Monday Parlor".

Life

Gerald Matt studied law , business administration and art history at the University of Innsbruck . In 1981 he completed his law studies with a doctorate. In 1985 he completed a further course in business administration at the Institute for Strategic Management with a Mag. Rer. soc. oec. and with a social and economic diploma thesis on cultural management. Matt worked in 1986 during the social-liberal coalition (Chancellor Sinowatz SPÖ, Vice Chancellor Nobert Steger, FPÖ) as a secretary in the club of the FPÖ. When Jörg Haider toppled Norbert Steger and became party leader, the non-party member Matt said goodbye by exposing a member of the FPÖ in the National Council to embarrassment with a false speech. From 1991 and 1992 he worked at the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture in the department for international biennials, foreign exhibitions and fundamental issues of cultural policy (today department V / 1). In 1992 he founded the Vorarlberger Kunstverein-Magazin4 in Bregenz together with Thomas Häusle and Wolfgang Fetz . Also in 1992 Matt became personal advisor to the Vienna City Councilor for Culture Ursula Pasterk (SPÖ), who was also President of the Kunsthalle Wien.

Create

In 1994 Matt was appointed general secretary and in 1996 director of the Kunsthalle Wien . Under his leadership, the Kunsthalle Wien moved from its temporary building on Karlsplatz to the new Ortner and Ortner building in the Museum Quarter. During the construction phase, Matt represented the City of Vienna in artistic and infrastructural matters vis-à-vis the Museumsquartierbetriebs- und Errichtungsgesellschaft and was a member of its supervisory board from 1995 to 2000.

In conflict with the MuseumsQuartier line he defended as spokesman for the institutions in the Museum Quarter , the independence of the cultural institutions before centralizing tendencies of the Museum Quarter society.

So he opened the art gallery in the Museumsquartier with the show “A baroque party” a few weeks before the opening of the entire area. In 2000, despite massive political resistance, he succeeded in securing the original Karlsplatz location with a new building designed by the architect Krischanitz as a project space for the Kunsthalle Wien.

Matt was also controversial with his exhibition projects. The flag campaign by the Turkish-German artist Feridun Zaimoglu on the facade of the Kunsthalle Wien met with massive political criticism from the right, as did the exhibition by the Vienna Group or that of the shroud by Teresa Margolles . The sculpture of a naked Muslim woman in public space by the artist Olaf Metzel , which was shown as part of an exhibition on the veil, was destroyed by strangers and heavily discussed in public. Matt also took a clear stand against the ÖVP / FPÖ coalition, which took over government in 2000 and which for the first time enabled Jörg Haider's nationalist, anti-foreign and art-hostile right-wing party to participate in government.

At the beginning of 2001 Matt was considered a candidate for the position of the City Councilor for Culture , and in 2006 as a candidate for the office of Minister of Culture , positions which he categorically rejected. During his tenure, Matt not only expanded the exhibition space and programs at the Kunsthalle Wien, he was also able to significantly increase the number of visitors. It succeeded in attracting a young audience in particular; over 80 percent of the visitors to the Kunsthalle are under 40 years of age.

In 2002, the renowned art magazine Arte ranked the Kunsthalle Wien as one of the six most important exhibition venues in Europe, alongside the Tate Gallery and the Center Pompidou . The New York Times described the Kunsthalle Wien in 2001 as a Mecca for the electronic arts.

In 2007 Matt succeeded in expanding the Kunsthalleholding, which was run by a private association, to include art in public space (KöR), previously managed by the municipal administration, of which he became co-managing director.

In 2007 Matt was appointed curator of the Austrian parliament for three years. In 2007, based on the model of the Kunsthalle Wien, the architect Adolf Krischanitz built the temporary Kunsthalle Berlin on Schlossplatz in Berlin-Mitte. Matt acts as an advisor to the two initiators Coco Kühn and Constanze Kleiner as well as the Stiftung Zukunft Berlin and curated the opening exhibition in 2008 with the South African artist Candice Breitz .

Matt made the Kunsthalle Wien an internationally recognized partner of major international museums such as the Guggenheim Museum or the Center Pompidou, with which the Kunsthalle produced the 2004 exhibition “Dear painter, paint me”. At the same time, the Kunsthalle became a place for the production of exhibitions, some of which, such as Bruce Conner, Viva la muerte, or True Romance, could be shown in foreign institutions.

Matt has curated numerous themed and personal exhibitions for the Kunsthalle Wien over the course of 18 years. With Matthew Barney or Shirin Neshat , you could see early art stars in the Kunsthalle Wien. Last but not least, Matt succeeded with current themed exhibitions such as B. to crime and evil (“Elevator to the Scaffold”, 2010) to war (“Attack”, 2003) or to the phenomenon of superstars (“Superstars”, 2005/2006) to expand the public for contemporary art. Exhibitions dealing with new, emerging art spaces outside the Western world, such as the Capital and Karma exhibition, which very early threw an artistic spotlight on the Indian art world, attracted particular attention.

For the young Viennese art scene, the five-year exhibition “Lives and works in Vienna”, which Matt initiated and is responsible for by changing foreign curators, has become a fixed point. With exhibitions on Edward Hopper and contemporary art, Western Motel or Salvador Dali and their importance for contemporary art, Matt not only brought the house record numbers of visitors, but also the confrontation of modernity with contemporary art.

Matt also regularly curated exhibitions at the invitation of foreign institutions, including his 1989 project, with which the Villa Schöningen in Potsdam- Berlin opened its house in 2009 in the presence of Chancellor Angela Merkel , Henry Kissinger and Michail Gorbatschow , or his exhibition “under pain of death ”, which he conceived together with Abraham Orden for the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York in 2008, attracted strong media attention. In 2008 Matt was on the jury of the Quadriennale d'arte in Rome together with Suzanne Pagé , Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Paris and Vicente Todoli , Director of the Tate Modern in London, which awarded the Quadriennale prizes to Maurizio Cattelan and Adrian Paci .

Matt is also the author or editor of numerous publications on contemporary art for the Kunsthalle Wien, the Ursula Blickle Foundation and independent publishers. In 2001, for example, he published a book on museum management entitled “Art and Money”, which was translated into Polish, Serbo-Croatian and Ukrainian. This was followed in 2003 by the book “Culture Management Made Easy”. In 2006 the Walter König publishing house published the books “Interview” 1 and 2, which contain many conversations between Matt and renowned artists such as Louise Bourgeois , Steve McQueen , Raymond Pettibon and Isaac Julien .

Together with the Ursula Blickle Foundation and the University of Applied Arts, Matt initiated the establishment and operation of a video archive and a video lounge to promote and convey video art. Matt has curated exhibitions such as Vertigo and Hans-Jürgen Syberberg for the Ursula Blickle Foundation since 2001 and has been a member of its board of directors since 2008.

Most recently, Matt curated the exhibition “Parallelworld Circus” at the Kunsthalle Wien with Verena Konrad.

At the beginning of 2012, after long quarrels with the Greens and under political pressure, Matt was suspended from duty by the board of the Kunsthalle Wien, who at the same time expressed his full confidence in Matt. The green culture spokesman Wolfgang Zinggl accused Matt of various sideline activities, authoritarian leadership and financial irregularities.

On March 24, 2012, Matt resigned from his position because he did not want to accept the conversion of the Kunsthalle Wien from an independent private association to a municipal limited liability company, the political replacement of the supervisory board and the separation of the artistic and commercial management. However, all tests carried out up to then did not reveal any misconduct by Matt.

Most recently, at the beginning of December 2012, the public prosecutor closed the preliminary investigation that had been initiated against Matt when the Greens reportedly on the grounds that all allegations against Matt had proven to be false. All previous allegations by the Greens were rejected by the public prosecutor as unfounded. The conflict led to the commissioning of an IT expert to check a possible data theft and thus to a parliamentary request to lift the immunity of the MP of the Greens Wolfgang Zinggl on the part of the MP of the SPÖ Elmar Mayer .

Financial irregularities that represent the offense of infidelity are excluded in the audit report initiated by the City of Vienna. Finally, the use of Kunsthalle employees was agreed in the employment contract. The results of the investigation essentially confirm Matt's statements on the matter at the time.

In conclusion, the Supreme Court sentenced the Green MP Wolfgang Zinggl to publicly retract his false and damaging statements against Gerald Matt. The daily newspaper die Presse suggested that Zinggl resign in this context. Zinggl is still allowed to make the following statements: “Matt uses the Kunsthalle Wien as a self-service shop. Under the protective cloak of art, Matt pursues his expensive obsessions by going on trips around the world under the heading of "business trips" and staying in expensive luxury hotels. Parliament had personally commissioned and paid Matt for the exhibition and the book “Austria's Art of the 1960s”, but obviously employees of the Kunsthalle Wien did a large part of the work, which was not allowed. Matt is responsible for misuse of funding because the public authorities have entrusted him with funding, staff and infrastructure from the Kunsthalle Wien, which he used for himself. And Matt take the publicly funded Kunsthalle Wien like a Christmas goose. "

Matt has been working for a management consultancy since summer 2012 and was lecturer at the University of Applied Arts and at the Institute for Art History at the University of Innsbruck for a few semesters . Since July 2014 Matt has been writing event-related columns about the art world for the Austrian daily newspaper "Heute" . He has been director of the Vienna Art Institute since 2015 and organizes a monthly television talk ("Matt speaks with" and "Monday salon") in which he discusses social, political, economic and artistic issues with public figures. Matt also curates exhibitions of contemporary art, most recently in the Flatzmuseum Dornbirn (Boris Mikhaelov, 2016 or Weegee, 2014, VN, in the Museum of Photography and new media (Mary Reid Kelly 2015, Calendar Moscow House of Photography)) and in the NKW (Ellen Cantor, Mc Dermott, Mc Gough, 2016)

In June 2019 it was announced that Gerald Matt Ekkehard Bechtold would succeed as honorary president of the Kunstraum Dornbirn association on July 1, 2019.

Other activities

From 1995 to 1998, Matt was the chairman of the Vienna Film Financing Fund (WFF). He wrote or participated in the drafting of numerous studies on questions of museum management and museum planning (Glacier Museum Vent or House of Cultures, Vienna). From 1999 to 2005 Matt was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano, and - in the same position - from 2001 to 2006 at the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna and from 2007 to 2010 at the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin , where he also curated . Since 2002 Matt has been a lecturer at the Institute for Cultural Management (IKM) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and since 2007 visiting professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and lecturer at the Center for International Art Management Cologne (CIAM).

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Topic of the diploma thesis: Management methods of the Tyrolean and Vorarlberg gallery owners.
  2. ^ Wiener Zeitung (Ed.): Leuchtstifte . Vienna March 11, 2006, p. 118-121 .
  3. ↑ Man with qualities. (PDF; 202 kB) (No longer available online.) In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten. May 15, 2010, archived from the original on March 10, 2016 ; Retrieved December 28, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.boehler-pointner.at
  4. ↑ New construction of the Kunsthalle Wien in the Museum Quarter by the architects Ortner and Ortner
  5. ↑ Make programs popular. (No longer available online.) In: kunstforum.de. 1999, archived from the original on April 1, 2013 ; Retrieved December 21, 2012 (Volume 148). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstforum.de
  6. ↑ Now comes the "hard reality". In: Kurier, December 30, 1996.
  7. ↑ Neue Kunsthalle Wien - A contemporary vitamin injection. In: Wiener Zeitung. April 8, 2005, accessed December 28, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Critic's Notebook: Digestion as Art? In Vienna ?; Kunsthalle Quickly Gets Attention in the New Museums Quarter. In: nytimes.com. May 31, 2001, accessed December 21, 2012 .
  9. ↑ Ask where the hare is . In: Tiroler Tageszeitung, April 26, 2005.
  10. ↑ Eternal threat to Turkey ... In: derstandard.at. March 8, 2005, accessed December 21, 2012 .
  11. ^ Act of vandalism on the sculpture "Turkish Delight". In: derstandard.at. December 11, 2007, accessed December 21, 2012 .
  12. ^ Rise of Haider's Party Brings Out Large Protest in Vienna. In: nytimes.com. February 20, 2000, accessed December 21, 2012 .
  13. ↑ City Hall government: Who works with you? (No longer available online.) In: kurier.at. March 28, 2001, archived from the original on February 1, 2016 ; Retrieved December 21, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kurier.at
  14. ↑ Make programs popular. (No longer available online.) In: kunstforum.de. 1999, archived from the original on May 1, 2013 ; Retrieved December 21, 2012 (Volume 148). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstforum-online.net
  15. ↑ Kunsthalle Wien with audience growth. In: wienholding.at. January 15, 2007, accessed December 21, 2012 .
  16. ↑ Anyone who has ever been there wants more. (No longer available online.) In: ten.de. Archived from the original on January 17, 2014 ; Retrieved December 21, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zehn.de
  17. ^ In Vienna, Art Opens A Window. In: nytimes.com. March 11, 2001, accessed December 21, 2012 .
  18. ^ Out of the Cube. (No longer available online.) In: kunstforum.de. 2008, archived from the original on April 1, 2013 ; Retrieved December 21, 2012 (Volume 191). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstforum.de
  19. ↑ "Cultureless Brain Tiny" in Parliament. In: derstandard.at. February 26, 2008, accessed December 21, 2012 .
  20. ^ Architecture: Wiener Kunsthalle for Berlin. In: diepresse.de. April 6, 2007, accessed December 21, 2012 .
  21. ↑ Picabia and the Consequences. In: derstandard.at. September 24, 2002, accessed December 21, 2012 .
  22. ↑ ILEJD. (No longer available online.) In: nzz.ch. April 10, 2011, archived from the original on February 3, 2014 ; Retrieved December 21, 2012 .
  23. ↑ ¡Viva la Muerte! (No longer available online.) In: kunsthallewien.at. October 2007, archived from the original on October 31, 2007 ; Retrieved December 21, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunsthallewien.at
  24. ^ Exhibition "True Romance". In: spiegel.de. October 5, 2007, accessed December 21, 2012 .
  25. ↑ Globalized Exhibition Practices . In: artmagazine.cc. June 3, 2002, accessed December 21, 2012 .
  26. ↑ 15 years Kunsthalle Wien, In: Spike, December 2007.
  27. ↑ melancholy? We don't have time for that. In: diezeit.de. November 14, 2008, accessed December 21, 2012 .
  28. ^ Dalí in the Kunsthalle Wien. In: oe1.orf.at. June 21, 2011, accessed December 28, 2012 .
  29. ↑ Everything is commercial, everything is political. In: welt.de. November 8, 2009, accessed December 21, 2012 .
  30. ^ Sanctioned Killings, and the Very Many That Aren't. In: nytimes.com. February 1, 2008, accessed December 21, 2012 .
  31. ↑ Quadrennial, trionfa la video arte. Premio a Cattelan assente Quadriennale. In: repubblica.it. September 13, 2008, accessed December 21, 2012 .
  32. ↑ The Cardinal's nephew. In: welt.de. August 21, 2001. Retrieved December 21, 2012 .
  33. ^ Ratgeber für Kulturberiebler, In: Kleine Zeitung, February 3, 2004.
  34. ^ New publications: The interviewer as a collaborator of the artist. In: welt.de. December 30, 2007, accessed December 21, 2012 .
  35. ↑ The Ursula Blickle Foundation. In: Kulturkalender-online.de. Retrieved December 21, 2012 .
  36. ↑ Vertigo. In: ursula-blickle-stiftung.de. 2001, accessed December 21, 2012 .
  37. ↑ Parallel world circus. In: diepresse.com. Retrieved December 28, 2012 .
  38. ↑ Where elephants are in the wall. In: welt.de. May 4, 2012, accessed December 21, 2012 .
  39. ↑ Gerald Matt - The green robber barons are coming. In: diepresse.com. December 22, 2011, accessed December 28, 2012 .
  40. ↑ Dieter Schrage: An executioner is not yet a cultural politician. In: derstandard.at. May 1, 2011, accessed December 28, 2012 .
  41. ↑ Gerald Matt resigns as director of the Kunsthalle. In: diepresse.com. March 23, 2012. Retrieved December 28, 2012 .
  42. ↑ Kunsthallen boss Gerald Matt relieved of examiners. In: diepresse.com. February 15, 2012, accessed December 28, 2012 .
  43. ^ Proceedings against Matt closed: Honor lost. In: derstandard.at. December 9, 2012, accessed December 28, 2012 .
  44. ↑ But now you are ashamed, you Greens! In: diepresse.com. December 14, 2012, accessed December 28, 2012 .
  45. ↑ Examination of the facts by netvance as the responsible IT support. In: www.netvance.at. December 2, 2013, accessed December 19, 2014 .
  46. ↑ Parliamentary question: Is there a motion to waive immunity? (PDF) In: www.parlament.gv.at. November 16, 2011, accessed November 24, 2014 .
  47. ^ ORF Radio Ö1 Nachrichten, December 7, 2012, 3 p.m.
  48. ^ ORF online culture
  49. ↑ Thomas Trenkler: A clear points win for Zinggl against Matt . ( kurier.at [accessed on January 16, 2017]).
  50. ↑ Gerald Matt visiting professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. In: ots.at. May 4, 2012, accessed December 21, 2012 .
  51. ↑ Ex-Kunsthalle director Gerald Matt is "Today" columnist. In: derstandard.at. July 21, 2014, accessed July 21, 2014 .
  52. ↑ Matt takes over Kunstraum Dornbirn. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
  53. ↑ City Hall correspondence of May 4, 2018 . Retrieved May 14, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Matt, Gerald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian, director of the Kunsthalle Wien
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Hard