Angela Stief | Art historian and curator, Director Albertina Modern

The art historian (study of Art History and Philosophy) and curator Angela Stief, born in Augsburg in 1974, was a curator at Kunsthalle Wien from 2002 to 2013. Since 2018, she has been a curatorial advisor for the Vienna Art Week and has conceptualized outsider exhibitions at the Österreichische Gesellschaft vom Goldenen Kreuze. In 2020, she assumed the guest professorship for curatorial practice at the University of Linz. Since July 2020, she has been the Chief Curator of Albertina modern, and prior to that, she was part of the curator team for the opening exhibition The Beginning: Art in Austria from 1945 to 1980. In October 2021, Stief was appointed as the director of Albertina Modern and Chief Curator for contemporary art at the Albertina. She regularly publishes texts on contemporary art in monographs, exhibition catalogs, art magazines, and periodicals (Artforum, Fair, Kunstforum International, Parnass, Profil, etc.).

Selected projects: Ways of Freedom. Pollock. Rothko. Mitchell (2022), The 80s (2021), Suzanne Treister (2020), The Beginning (2020), Anna Zemánková (2019), Betty Tompkins (2019), Evelyne Axell (2018), Rupprecht Geiger (2017), OFF IS (a scene hybrid of museum, gallery, and bar in interim-use spaces, 2016), California Dreaming I/II (Editor, Kunstforum International, 2016), KINESIS – Eine Studie zur Bewegung im Bild (2015), Serendipität. Kunst zwischen Zufall und Programm (2015), Obsessionen I/II (Editor, Kunstforum International, 2014), Leigh Bowery (2013), Julian Rosefeldt (2012), POWER UP – Female Pop Art (2010), Lebt und arbeitet in Wien (2010), Videorama (2009), Wangechi Mutu (2008), Traum und Trauma. Werke aus der Sammlung Dakis Joannou (2007).