The Curatorial Roundtable: Astrid Peterle (Vienna)

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Astrid Peterle is the Head of the Curatorial Department at Kunsthalle Wien. From 2010 to 2022, Peterle worked at the Jewish Museum Vienna, becoming Chief Curator in 2018. Previously, she served as the curator for performance at Donaufestival Krems. At Kunsthalle Wien, she most recently curated the exhibitions of the Kunsthalle Wien Prize (2022 and 2023), awarded annually to graduating students of the Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. For the Jewish Museum Vienna, she took over the curatorial direction of the new conception of the permanent exhibition Our Middle Ages! The First Jewish Community in Vienna at Museum Judenplatz (2018–2021). Peterle is the curator and author of numerous exhibitions and articles on Viennese cultural history and contemporary art, especially choreography, performance art, photography, and feminist art practice.

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