Sabine Breitwieser

Sabine Breitwieser is an international curator and museum director, currently based in Vienna, Austria, as independent scholar. She was a 2020/2021 Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Center in Los Angeles, a prestigious research program she continued in 2022. From 2013 until 2018 she was 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 and headed one of the six specialist departments and collections. From 1988 until 2007 she was the Founding Director and Chief Curator of the Generali Foundation in Vienna. She organized and directed more than 150 monographic and thematic exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States and edited and published about 100 catalogues and books. In 2012, she received the Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts in New York.