TBA21 seeks an Assistant Curator
Founded in Vienna in 2002 by Francesca von Habsburg, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary represents the fourth generation of the Thyssen family’s dedication to the arts. After ten years of collecting, commissioning projects and engaged exhibition practice, TBA21 has established a well-respected collection of more than 500 contemporary artworks in the field of new media including film, video, light, sound and mixed media installations, sculpture, painting, photography and performance, and successfully cocommissioned about 50 projects ranging from multi-media installations, to sound compositions and contemporary architecture.
In May 2012, TBA21 opened a new public exhibition venue in the Augarten Park in Vienna. Dedicated to the presentation of one-person shows, at times in dialogical constellations, TBA21 Augarten permits the foundation to further explore its collection through the prism of an exhibition.
Assistant Curator For Exhibitions, Research and Collection development
Main Activities/Responsibilities
Exhibition and displays
Within the framework of the TBA21 exhibition program, you will
• Assist in the curatorial process in preparing exhibitions
• Contribute to the installation of the exhibitions and displays program
• Write accessible gallery wall texts and captions.
• Write informative and scholarly texts for exhibition catalogues; edit exhibition catalogues.
• Work with designers in the preparation of invitations, folders, and publications
• Work with PR department in the preparation of press releases, facebook entries and other social media postings
• Lead tours and presentations of displays and exhibitions.
• Prepare seminars, educational events and other scholarly types of events
• Prepare performances, lectures and music events Administration and management
To assist with the administrative realization of the program, you will:
• Act as project manager for specific projects.
• Supervise interns or volunteers when required.
• Participate in the preparation of budget, keep budget files and updates for projects
• Take on administration-related tasks and projects, when required.
Collection
Within the framework of the acquisition and commissioning strategy endorsed by the Chairperson and the Chief Curator you will:
• Research and develop acquisitions and commissions, and contribute generally to the work of the team of curators/collection manager that focuses on acquisitions and commissions.
• Maintain and develop an appropriate network of contacts among artists, galleries, critics,
scholars
• Write informed and accurate texts about acquisition and commissioning proposals
Research and cataloguing
• Establish correct catalogue information for acquired and commissioned works and
projects
• Research works in the Collection, preparing short texts, board notes and catalogue entries and other types of writings around the Collection as required, writing in a clear, accessible prose and / or with scholarly ambition, if for catalogs and other publications
• Keep up TBA21 collection website and other types of entries related to the collection and its various exhibitions (in Vienna and internationally)
• Contribute to the library acquisition focus based on TBA21’s collection focuses
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Köstlergasse 1/22
1060 Vienna
www.tba21.org
