Ute Meta Bauer

Workshop: Teil 2
19. - 23. September 2006    

More information on Ute Meta Bauer’s contribution to the workshop will follow soon

Biografie
Ute Meta Bauer, internationally known as a freelance curator and artistic director –as well as as a teacher, lecturer and editor – has been appointed director of the Visual Arts Program in the Department of Architecture.
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From 1990-1994 she was Artistic Director of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, where she edited the international art magazine META and conceived and realized exhibitions, symposia, workshops and lectures by artists and theorists.
From 1996 to the present, she has held an appointment at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna as Professor of Theory, Practice and Transfer of Contemporary Art. During that time she has also served as head of the Institute of Contemporary Art (1996-2001) and as head of the Institute for Art and Cultural Science (2003-2004). In 2002-2003 she held the position of the vice rector and has been in charge of the international affairs of the academy.
Since 2002, she has also been founding director of the Norwegian Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo, a private foundation founded by the Ministry of Culture and Church and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to develop collaborations in contemporary art between Norway and the international art scene.
In recent years, she has curated several events and exhibitions, including Architectures of Discourse (Barcelona, 2001), First Story—Women Building/New Narratives for the 21st Century for the European Cultural Capital Porto 2001, and the Artist-in-Residence Program at ArtPace in San Antonio, Texas (2004).
Between 1999 and 2002, with Artistic Director Okwui Enwezor, she was co-curator of Documenta 11 [...] In the spring of 2004, Bauer was also artistic director of the 3rd berlin biennial for contemporary art, a broad international spectrum of visual, urban, cinematic, performative and sonic stagings that took place over the course of two months [...]

Source/more information: http://web.mit.edu/vap/people/faculty/faculty_bauer.html