Gerda Ridler

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Gerda Ridler (* 1963 in Waldhausen im Strudengau ) is an Austrian art historian and cultural manager. She was u. a. Founding director of the private Museum Ritter in Waldenbuch near Stuttgart and scientific director of the Upper Austrian State Museum .

Professional background

Before her studies, Gerda Ridler worked as a flight attendant at Deutsche Lufthansa AG (1985–1990) and catering manager at Lauda Air (1990–1991). She studied art history and cultural management in Vienna , Linz and Ludwigsburg. In 2012 she did her doctorate on "Success factors of private art collections in comparison with public museums in German-speaking countries". Gerda Ridler was curator at the Lentos Art Museum Linz , formerly Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz (1997–1998) and from 1998 to 1999 head of the events and public support department at Belvedere Vienna . In 1998 she founded the KunstRaumGoethestrasse in Linz, a non-profit project space for contemporary art and social projects. From 2000 to 2004 she was project manager for the visual arts and cultural mediation at the “ Steirischer Herbst ” festival in Graz and subsequently a research assistant for the reopening of the Stuttgart Art Museum . From 2004 to 2010 Gerda Ridler was the founding director responsible for the development and positioning of the privately run Museum Ritter in Waldenbuch, then from 2012 to 2013 she worked as a museological consultant for the private Museum Angerlehner in Thalheim near Wels. From 2013 to 2018 she was appointed scientific director of the Upper Austrian State Museum . In this function, she was a board member of the Austrian Museum Association and deputy president of the Upper Austrian Museums Association. She currently works as an author, curator and consultant for private collections.

As a curator, Gerda Ridler has realized solo exhibitions with contemporary artists and numerous themed exhibitions, as well as published a series of exhibition catalogs and articles on concrete art and private art collections.

Works

  • Collected privately - presented to the public. About the success of a new museum trend in art collections. transcript, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-2227-0 .
  • The myth of beauty. Facets of the beautiful in nature, art and society. Aust. Cat. Upper Austrian State Museum, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2015, ISBN 978-3-7757-3984-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kulturmanagement.ph-ludwigsburg.de , accessed on December 13, 2015
  2. ↑ artinfo-magazin.de (PDF; 1.5 MB), accessed on September 1, 2012
  3. ↑ kurier.at , accessed on February 20, 2013
  4. ↑ nachrichten.at , accessed on October 5, 2013
  5. ↑ A man who would like to become something else. In: The speaker - art and local cultural supply . December 1, 2017 ( servus.at [accessed November 5, 2018]).
  6. ↑ museumsbund.at , accessed on December 13, 2015
  7. ↑ ooemuseumsverbund.at , accessed on December 13, 2015.
  8. ↑ Gerda Ridler: A passionate passion for art. Public private collections in Baden-Württemberg. In: Private Art Collections BW, ed. by Ulrike Geist and Claudia Fenkart-N'jie, Stuttgart 2011
personal data
SURNAME Ridler, Gerda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian and cultural manager
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldhausen im Strudengau