Sabine Breitwieser is an international curator and museum director. From 2013 until August 2018 she held the position of the director of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg. In 2014, in connection with a partnership, she became appointed as artistic director of the Generali Foundation a second time. From 2010 until 2013 she served as chief curator of Media and Performance Art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. From 1988 until 2007 she was the founding director and chief curator of the Generali Foundation in Vienna. From 2004 until 2013 she was on the board of CIMAM, the International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern Art, the last three years as secretary and treasurer. From 2008 until 2010 she was an independent curator at Museu D’Art Contemporani de Barcelona and the Styrian Autumn Festival in Graz, and in 2004 researcher/co-curator of the International 04, Liverpool Biennial. Sabine Breitwieser has organized more than 150 monographic and thematic exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States and has also edited and published about 100 catalogues and books.
From the Modern to the Global Museum: Collecting Interdisciplinary and Non-Object-Based Art
“How have museums presented and acquired works by interdisciplinary artists?” Continuing our series of essays on interdisciplinary practices, curator and art historian Sabine Breitwieser explores the complexities of dance, performance, and non-object based artworks entering the museum space.