Heike Eipeldauer | Deputy Director General and Curator, mumok

Heike Eipeldauer studied Art History and Law with a focus on Cultural Law in Vienna and Dijon. She is the Deputy Director General and Curator at mumok, Vienna, where she has overseen exhibitions such as Huang Po-Chih. Blue Elephant (2021) and Collaborations (2022, together with Franz Thalmair). She is currently working on Medardo Rosso. The Invention of Modern Sculpture for 2024/25, which will also be shown at the Kunstmuseum Basel. From 2004 to 2017, she was a curator at the Kunstforum Vienna, where she organized exhibitions in collaboration with institutions such as Tate Modern, London; AGO, Toronto; Kunsthaus Zürich; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; and S.M.A.K., Ghent. These exhibitions included Anna Jermolaewa (2006), Georges Braque (2008), Dan Pejovschi & Nedko Solakov (2008), Birgit Jürgenssen (2010/11, together with Gabriele Schor), Sofie Thorsen (2013), Meret Oppenheim (2013/14), Georgia O’Keeffe (2016/17, together with Tanya Barson and Georgiana Uhlyarik), James Welling (2017, together with Martin Germann), and Gerhard Rühm (2017), as well as thematic exhibitions on topics such as collaborative working methods in the Russian avant-garde (2015/16 and 2017). From 2018 to 2020, she was Head of Collections at the Leopold Museum, where she co-curated Oskar Kokoschka: Expressionist, Migrant, European (together with Cathérine Hug), among others. Heike Eipeldauer has lectured at the University of Vienna, regularly participates in international juries, and is an editor and author of publications on modern and contemporary art.