Lilli Hollein

Lilli Hollein (* 21st July 1972 in Vienna as Karoline Hollein) is an Austrian curator, cultural manager and design expert. She is the director of the design festival Vienna Design Week , which she co-founded and which has taken place every autumn in Vienna since 2007.

Life

Lilli Hollein was born in 1972 in Vienna as the daughter of the architect Hans Hollein and the fashion illustrator Helene Hollein. Her brother is Max Hollein (* 1969), director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York . Lilli Hollein initially studied psychology at the University of Vienna (1991 to 1993) and from 1993 to 1999 studied industrial design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. In 1999 she wrote her master's thesis (Mag. Art.) On the subject of "Exhibition system". From 1996 to 2000 Hollein wrote for the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard on the subjects of architecture and design, from 2000 to 2004 she shot TV features on these subjects for ORF . From 1992 to 1995 Hollein was a project manager at the Maculan Architecture Gallery in Vienna. Between 1995 and 2006 she worked on exhibition projects as a project manager, coordinator and curator. Exhibitions curated by her have been shown at the Aedes Gallery in Berlin, the Looshaus Vienna and the Kunsthalle Krems , among others , and dealt with the Memphis design movement and the younger Austrian architecture scene. In 2007 Lilli Hollein was commissioner for the Austrian contribution to the São Paulo Architecture Biennale. In 2007 Lilli Hollein founded the Vienna Design Week, Austria's largest design event, together with Tulga Beyerle and Thomas Geisler as the "Design inclination group". Hollein has been running the Vienna Design Week alone since November 2013. Lilli Hollein is married and has a daughter (* 2008).

Act

Among other things, Lilli Hollein was the jury chairman for the Austrian participation in the Expos in Milan (2014) and Kazakhstan (2015). From 2010 to 2013 she was the jury president of “KÖR - Art in Public Space”, Vienna. Since 2005 she has been a member of the jury at the Vienna Business Agency. She is a member of the board of trustees of the Museum of Modern Art Vienna Mumok. Lilli Hollein has been President of ADN - Austria Design Net, an association of museums and institutions for design in Austria, since 2015. The Viennese design festival Vienna Design Week, co-founded and curated by Lilli Hollein in 2007, with almost 200 events and 40,000 visitors annually, promotes a new awareness of design in the form of exhibitions, workshops, participatory projects, talks, collaborations and guided tours throughout Vienna. It wants to show development and production processes and also initiate experimental work by national and international designers on site. Since 2013, Hollein has been solely responsible for the Vienna Design Week as festival director.

literature

• Lilli Hollein: Memphis - Art / Kitsch / Cult - A design movement changes the world, Vienna: Verlag Der Apfel, Vienna 2002, ISBN 978-3-85450-715-4
• Lilli Hollein and Ian Chambers (eds.): Urbanism - for sale. feld72, Vienna: Verlag Springer, Vienna, 2007, ISBN 978-3211757833
• Lilli Hollein and Tina Thiel (eds.): Stadtarbeit: Ten Years of Design Featuring the City, Vienna: Verlag Umstaetter, Vienna 2017 ISBN 978-3950426601

Web links

• Interview with Lilli Hollein on Baunetz.de on February 10, 2016
• Lilli Hollein portrait of Friends of Friends in Zeit Magazin Online from 10 December 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://derstandard.at/2000056275663/Weisse-Waende-finde-ich-wohltuend
2. ↑ http://www.viennadesignweek.at
3. ↑ Back to the future. In: DiePresse.com. September 30, 2016, accessed August 11, 2019 . 
4. ↑ https://derstandard.at/2970899/Aufgabe-fuer-Lilli-Hollein-bei-Architektur-Biennale
5. ↑ http://www.koer.or.at/ueber-uns/koer-jury/jury-2010-2013/
6. ↑ Austrian talent for communication. In: sueddeutsche.de. September 29, 2017. Retrieved August 3, 2018 . 
7. ↑ https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/de/interviews/lilli-hollein/