Georg Schöllhammer

curator, writer, and editor, Vienna

Georg Schöllhammer is an editor, writer, and curator based in Vienna. He is founding editor of Springerin and the head of tranzit.at. Schöllhammer has worked internationally on cultural projects including: Documenta, Manifesta, L’internationale, FORMER WEST, Sweet Sixties, and the Vienna Festival, and he is chairman of The Július Koller Society in Bratislava. From 2004 to 2007 Schöllhammer was editor-in-chief of Documenta 12, where he conceived and directed Documenta 12 magazines. He was artistic director of VIENNAFAIR 2011 with Hedwig Saxenhuber. Schöllhammer has curated a number of exhibitions including: Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Model, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 2014; Changing the Image, Mumok, Vienna 2013; Trespassing Modernities, SALT, Istanbul 2013; and Sweet Sixties, Galeria Nova, Zagreb 2013. Selected publications include: KwieKlik (2013); Moments – A history of performance in 10 acts (2013); and Sweet Sixties – Avant-Gardes in the Shadows of the Cold War (2013). Schöllhammer lives and works in Vienna. [Last updated 2016]