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Sabine Breitwieser | Author and curator

Sabine Breitwieser is mentor to Katharina Hölzl

Sabine Breitwieser is a curator and author based in Vienna. She is a 2020/21 Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. From 2013 until 2018 she held the position of the Director of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Previously, from 2010 until 2013 she served as Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. From 1988 until 2007 she was the Founding Director and Chief Curator of the Generali Foundation in Vienna. She has organized and directed more than 150 monographic and thematic exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States and has also edited and published about 100 catalogs and books as well as numerous essays. In 2012 Sabine Breitwieser received the Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts in New York.