Kathrin Rhomberg | Head of Kontakt Collection – Erste Foundation

Kathrin Rhomberg, studied art history and classical archaeology and worked as curator and head of the exhibition office at the Secession, Vienna, from 1990 to 2001. From 2002 to 2007 director of the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne. Curated, among others, Manifesta 3, Ljubljana, 2000 (with Francesco Bonami, Ole Bouman and Maria Hlavajova); Projekt Migration, Cologne, 2002–2006 (with Marion von Osten); Former West, Utrecht, Berlin, Istanbul, Vienna, 2008–2013 (with Charles Esche and Maria Hlavajova); Sanja Iveković. General Alert. Works 1974–2007 (with Nataša Ilić), Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, 2007; Ion Grigorescu In the Body of the Victim 1969–2008, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 2009; Roman Ondák – Loop, Slowakischer und Tschechischer Pavilion, 53. Venice Biennale, 2009; 6. Berlin Biennale, 2010; Christoph Schlingensief. Fear of the Core of Things, BAK, basis voor aktuele kunst, Utrecht, 2012; Former West – Documents, Constellations, Prospects, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin 2012 (with Maria Hlavajova); Petrit Halilaj, Pavilion der Republik Kosovo, 55. Venice Biennale, 2013; Retrospective Július Koller, Museum of Modern Art in Warschau und mumok, Vienna, 2015-2016 (with Daniel Grúň and Georg Schöllhammer); Retrospective Edi Hila. Painter of Transformation, Museum of Modern Art in Warschau und National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, 2018 (with Joanna Mytkowska and Erzen Shkololli). Rhomberg directs the Kontakt Collection and is a visiting professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. She lives in Vienna.