Georg Schöllhammer is a writer, curator, founding editor of Springerin, and 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:
The School of Kyiv, Kyiv Biennial, Kiev, 2015;
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 2017]