Stella Rollig

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Stella Rollig (* 1960 in Vienna ) is an Austrian art and culture manager , author and journalist . Since January 2017 she has been General Director and Scientific Managing Director of Belvederes in Vienna. Before that, she was artistic director of the Lentos Art Museum Linz for twelve years and, since 2011, of the Nordico City Museum .

Life

Rollig grew up in Vienna, studied German language and literature and art history at the University of Vienna from 1978 to 1985 and worked as a journalist after graduation ; first in the ORF - radio and from 1990 to 1994 freelance journalist for the daily newspaper " Der Standard ". As an art critic, she published numerous articles in domestic and foreign art magazines.

From 1992 onwards she has repeatedly worked as a curator, e. B. in Austria, in the USA, in Canada and in Russia. In 1994 she was appointed Federal Curator for Fine Arts at the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts by Minister Rudolf Scholten ( SPÖ ) . She also founded the depot in 1994 . Art and discussion in the MuseumsQuartier and headed it until 1996.

Since 1996 she has been teaching, e.g. B. at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , in The Banff Center for the Arts in Banff ( Canada ), at the University of Artistic and Industrial Design Linz , at the FH Joanneum in Graz and at the Zurich University of the Arts . As a jury member, she was regularly represented at various prizes and festivals (including the Split Film Festival, Stuttgarter Filmwinter , Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto, Diagonale , Festival of Austrian Films, Otto Mauer Prize , Austrian Graphics Prize , Crossing Europe Film Festival , Friedrich Kiesler Prize ).

From 2004 to 2016 she was artistic director of the Lentos Art Museum Linz and the Nordico City Museum . There she realized more than 120 exhibitions and projects a. a. with Gilbert & George , VALIE Export , Kutluğ Ataman , Olafur Eliasson and Cathy Wilkes . Themed exhibitions were u. a. "See this Sound" (2009), "Der nackte Mann" (2012) and "Rabenmütter" (2015).

In addition, she was a member of the following tax bodies:

Since January 2017 she has been General Director and Scientific Director of the Austrian Gallery Belvedere in Vienna , appointed by Culture Minister Thomas Drozda ( SPÖ ) . She succeeded Agnes Husslein-Arco , whose contract was not renewed after ten years at the helm of the Belvedere due to compliance violations. According to media reports, Rollig is close to the SPÖ; the daily Die Presse spoke of "a solid career on the SP ticket". Rollig's predecessor Husslein, on the other hand , is attributed to the ÖVP .

In 2013, Rollig publicly stood up for Sonja Ablinger, who was MP at the time, and praised Ablinger as a “clever, critical, left-wing, feminist MP [...] The SPÖ needs them. We need them".

On October 9, 2017, Mayor Klaus Luger presented Stella Rollig with the Great Medal of Honor of the City of Linz for her services to culture.

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Minister of Culture Drozda on the new Belvedere management: Stella Rollig and Wolfgang Bergmann are a highly committed team . In: ots.at . ( ots.at [accessed on January 30, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Belvedere: The Austrian Solution Die Presse , October 17, 2016
  3. ↑ Agnes Husslein-Arco: Macherin stumbles on the smooth parquet of power Salzburger Nachrichten , July 27, 2016
  4. ^ SPÖ: Solidarity Initiative for Sonja Ablinger Kurier, July 19, 2013
  5. ↑ BELVEDERE: Professor title to Stella Rollig. December 3, 2019, accessed December 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rolly, Stella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cultural manager, author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna