Sabine Breitwieser is an international curator and museum director and became the Director of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg in September 2013. She previously served as Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and as Founding Director and Chief Curator of the Generali Foundation in Vienna. For many years she was a board member and served as the Secretary and Treasurer of CIMAM, the International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern Art. In 2012 Sabine Breitwieser was a recipient of the Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award. Breitwieser has curated retrospective and solo exhibitions with artists including Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, VALIE EXPORT, Harun Farocki, Simone Forti, Andrea Fraser, Isa Genzken, Isaac Julien, Mary Kelly, Christian Marclay, Edward Krasiński, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gustav Metzger, Adrian Piper, Martha Rosler, Carolee Schneemann, and Allan Sekula.

May 12, 2016

Born in Switzerland in 1959, Caroline Bourgeois graduated in Psychoanalysis at Paris University in 1984. She was director of the Eric Franck Gallery in Switzerland from 1988 to 1993 and co-director of the Jennifer Flay Gallery from 1995 to 1997. From 1998 to 2001, she worked on contemporary art installations in tube stations in Paris with a number of artists, including Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. In 1998 she was appointed to be in charge of the video section of François Pinault’s collection. In this context she gave the collection broad horizons that enable to trace the history of the moving image through art installations. In 2001, with the Pinault Collection, she worked on the production team of Pierre Huyghe’s artworks for the Biennale’s French pavilion. She has also worked on a number of independent projects, among which: the video program “Plus qu’une image” for the first edition of the Nuit Blanche in Paris (2002); the exhibition “Survivre à l’Apartheid” at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie during the Paris photography month on the theme Emergences Résistances Résurgences (2002); the production of the video collection “Point of view: an Anthology of the Moving image”, in collaboration with the New Museum of Contemporary Art (2003) and “Valie Export – an Overview”, a travelling exhibition co-organized with the Centre National de la Photographie (CNP) of Paris (2003-2004). From 2004 to 2008 she was Artistic Director of the Plateau, a contemporary art centre in Paris, where she curated several exhibitions: “Ralentir Vite”, “Joan Jonas”, “Loris Gréaud”, “Diaz & Riedweg”, “Jean-Michel Sannejouand”, “Archipeinture”, “En Voyage”, “Adel Abdessemed”, “Société Anonyme”, “Nicole Eisenman”, “Dr Curlet reçoit Jos de Gruyter et Harald Thys”, “l’Argent”, “Cao Fei”, “Melik Ohanian”. She has been curating exhibitions of the Pinault Collection since 2007: “Passage du temps” (2007) at Lille’s Tripostal, “Un certain état du monde” (2009) at the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow, “Qui a peur des artistes?” (2009) in Dinard, “À triple tour” (2013) at the Concier¬gerie in Paris. In Venice she has curated “In Praise of Doubt” (2011-2013), “Prima Materia” (2013-2014) with Mi¬chael Govan, and “Slip of the Tongue” (2015) in collaboration with Danh Vo, at Punta della Dogana, and “The World Belongs to You” (2011), “Madame Fisscher” (2012), “Voice of Images” (2012-2013), “The Illusion of Light” (2014-2015) and “Martial Raysse” (2015) at Palazzo Grassi.

May 12, 2016

Gloria Moure is an Editor and Independent Curator. She has curated exhbitions on some of the most acclaimed contemporary artists. Besides the retrospective dedicated to Marcel Duchamp that she curated at the Miró Foundation in 1984, among her projects are worth mentioning those that she developed when leading the Foundation Espai Poblenou in Barcelona (1989-1995) and the Galician centre for Contemporary Art in Santiago de Compostela (1994-1998). Among the exhbition that she curated are Gordon Matta-Clark (MNCARS, Madrid, 2006), Marcel Broodthaers (MAMBO, Bologna, 2012), On the Road (Santiago de Compostela, 2014), Michael Snow (La Virreina, Barcelona, 2015. ACCA award for the best exhibition of the year). She has written extensively and published numerous artists monographies, such as those of Marcel Duchamp,Sigmar Polke, Gordon Matta Clark, Marcel Broodthaers, among others.

Last update April 29th, 2016.