Mag. Dr. Wolfgang Zinggl
Wehrgasse 22/15
1050 Vienna
Phone: 0043 699 11099103
wzinggl@depot.or.at
Curriculum Vitae
1954 born in Vienna, Primary School in St. Paul Minnesota; Gymnasium in Vienna
MA / University of Applied Arts; PhD Psychology / University Vienna
1974 – 1984 Set designs for film and theater
since 1988 Numerous teaching assignments at various Universities see below
1988 – 1996 Art critic for the magazin “Falter” (about 400 articles, critiques reviews)
since 1993 Founding and managing of the activist artist group WochenKlausur – art as a concrete sociopolitical intervention – with 42 internationally projects so far conducted in US., Germany, Italy, Austria, Ireland, U.K., Italy, Switzerland, Japan, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Netherlands and Macedonia.
1992 – 1993 Assistant Professorship. Department for Design at Technical University Vienna
1995 – 1997 Editor of the art magazine Zur Sache
1995 – 1996 Visiting professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna
1997 – 2000 Austrians Federal Curator for Visual Arts
1997 – 2004 Director of the Depot – Center for Art and Discussion. More than 600 events (lectures, discussions, symposia, seminars, workshops etc.)
1998 – 2002 Member of the UNESCO Culture Committee
1998 Author of the government report “Reform of Austrian Cultural Policy” commissioned by Chancellor Victor Klima
1998 – 2004 “Mission to Order” 200 lectures held on the history of ideas in art
1999 Participation at the Venice Biennial representing Austria
2000 – 2003 Curator for “Artistic Intervention in Cultural Landscape Research” under the commission of the Federal Ministry of Science
2000 – 2004 Member of the public trust council at the ORF (Austrias National Broadcasting Company)
2004 – 2019 Member of the Austrian parliament
2007 – 2013 Chairman of the supervisory board at the MUMOK Museum of Modern Art
2007 – 2013 Member of the foundation board at the Ludwig Foundation
2014 Golden decoration of the Austrian Republic
2018 – 2019 Member of the foundation council at the Margaretha Lupac Foundation
Teaching
1988 – 1995 Contemporary Art (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna)
1988 – 1999 Perceptual Psychology (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna)
1991 – 1992 Perceptual Theories (Art History Department, University of Graz)
1992 – 1993 Assistant Professorship. Department for Design at Technical University, Vienna
1992 – 1993 Perceptual Theories (Art History Department, University of Vienna)
1991 – 1995 Art Psychology (Psychology Department, University of Vienna)
1992 – 1996 Morphology of Visual Art (University of Applied Art, Vienna)
1992 – 1997 Art History of Modernism (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna)
1995 – 1996 Visiting Professor at the University of Applied Art, Vienna
1995 – 1996 Art History of Modernism (Art History Department, University of Vienna)
1998 – 1999 Art Criticism (Art History Department, University of Vienna)
2002 – 2003 Art as Social Intervention (Educational Department, University of Graz)
2002 – 2003 Art and Public Space (Department of Social Sciences, University of Graz)
2020 – 2020 Delocated Art (University of Applied Art, Vienna)
See lots of international lectures at http://www.wochenklausur.at/praesentationen.php?lang=en
Due to 26 years of activity, my theoretical and practical contributions have succeeded in expanding the concept of art far beyond its traditional terrain towards politics, society and science. This has required efforts in the fields of teaching at universities, in the media, as a long-time art critic, with productions in art institutions, publications and the activities as a federal art curator and finally as a cultural politician in the National Council. Creative and formative energies can be used excellently for the further development of our living together. I am constantly making my contribution to this.