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Schöllhammer, Georg
Georg Schöllhammer, born in 1958, is an editor, author, and curator who lives and works in Vienna. He was the co-founder of “springerin - Hefte für Gegenwartskunst”, a quarterly magazine dedicated to the theory and critique of contemporary art and culture, and since 1995 has been its editor-in-chief. From 1988–1994 he was the editor for visual arts at the daily “Der Standard”. From 1992–1998 he was a visiting professor for theory of contemporary art at the University of Art and Industrial Design, Linz. Outside of his numerous publications, exhibitions, and projects on contemporary art and architecture, he directs tranzit.at, an initiative to support contemporary art projects in Central Europe. Recently, he curated the exhibition “Play Sofia” (Kunsthalle Wien, 2005) as well as the projects “Inventur: zeitgenössischer Tanz und Performance” (Inventory: Contemporary Dance and Performance, Tanzquartier Wien, 2005) and “Lokale Modernen: Architektur an den Rändern der Sowjetunion” (Local Modernities: Architecture at the Margins of the Soviet Union; Frankfurt on the Main and Berlin). Currently, he is also the head of publications for the documenta 12. (www.springerin.at)
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Georg Schöllhammer, born in 1958, is an editor, author, and curator who lives and works in Vienna. He was the co-founder of “springerin - Hefte für Gegenwartskunst”, a quarterly magazine dedicated to the theory and critique of contemporary art and culture, and since 1995 has been its editor-in-chief. From 1988–1994 he was the editor for visual arts at the daily “Der Standard”. From 1992–1998 he was a visiting professor for theory of contemporary art at the University of Art and Industrial Design, Linz. Outside of his numerous publications, exhibitions, and projects on contemporary art and architecture, he directs tranzit.at, an initiative to support contemporary art projects in Central Europe. Recently, he curated the exhibition “Play Sofia” (Kunsthalle Wien, 2005) as well as the projects “Inventur: zeitgenössischer Tanz und Performance” (Inventory: Contemporary Dance and Performance, Tanzquartier Wien, 2005) and “Lokale Modernen: Architektur an den Rändern der Sowjetunion” (Local Modernities: Architecture at the Margins of the Soviet Union; Frankfurt on the Main and Berlin). Currently, he is also the head of publications for the documenta 12. (www.springerin.at)
beteiligt an › Mobile Academy in Warsaw: “Ghosts, Spectres, Phantoms, and the Places Where They Live”
