Sabine Breitwieser

After studying law in Linz, Breitwieser obtained her doctorate in law at the University of Vienna. She was initially coordinator and curator in 1988 and from 1991 to 2007 the first artistic director on the board of the Generali Foundation (founding director). In developing the initial plans for a collection of Austrian sculpture, she expanded the Generali Foundation's art collection with a focus on conceptual and critical art. This collection, as well as the exhibitions it has shown, have met with international acclaim.[3]

In 2003 and 2004 she was one of the curators of the International Liverpool Biennial, and from 2003 to 2008 she was a member of the University Council of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In 2007, Breitwieser became Secretary and Treasurer of CIMAM (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art).[4]

She was appointed the chief curator of media and performance art at MoMA in Manhattan in May 2010,[5] holding the role until 2013.[4] In the same year she completed the second part of her two-year project Utopia and Monument for the Styrian Autumn, which she had begun the previous year. From 2013 to 2018, she was the director of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg (MdMS).[6] In 2014, as part of her work as director, she agreed to a partnership with Generali and the relocation of the collection she had built up from Vienna to MdMS. Breitwieser also works as a freelance curator, lecturer and author on contemporary art.[7]

She co-organized a show on German sculptor Isa Genzken in 2013, the first "comprehensive Genzken exhibition in an American museum."[8] In 2015, she organized "Carole Schneemann: Kinetic Painting" for the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, which traveled to MoMA PS1 in 2017 and 2018.[9] In 2019 and 2020, she curated a show at the Muzeum Susch about Carolee Schneeman.[10]

• 2012 Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts[11]

• Marisa Merz. Il cielo è grande spazio / Der Himmel ist ein weiter Raum. Dt. Ausgabe, Salzburg: Museum der Moderne Salzburg, 2018. ISBN 978-3-200-05660-2
• William Kentridge. Thick Time. by Iwona Blazwick and Sabine Breitwieser. London: Whitechapel/Salzburg: Museum der Moderne Salzburg, 2016. ISBN 978-0-85488-250-2
• Anti:modern. Salzburg inmitten von Europa zwischen Tradition und Erneuerung. Dt./Engl., Salzburg: Museum der Moderne Salzburg/München: Hirmer, 2016. ISBN 978-3-7774-2696-9
• Carolee Schneemann. Kinetic Painting. Salzburg: Museum der Moderne Salzburg/München: Prestel, 2015. ISBN 978-3-7913-5508-5
• E.A.T. – Experiments in Art and Technology. Dt./Engl., Salzburg: Museum der Moderne Salzburg/Köln: Walther König, 2015. ISBN 978-3-86335-783-2
• Andrea Fraser. Salzburg: Museum der Moderne Salzburg/Ostfildern: Hatje-Cantz, 2015. ISBN 978-3-7757-4015-9
• Kunst/Geschichten / Art/Histories. Dt./Engl., Salzburg: Museum der Moderne Salzburg/München: Hirmer, 2014. ISBN 978-3-7774-2279-4
• Simone Forti. Thinking with the Body. Salzburg: Museum der Moderne Salzburg/München: Hirmer, 2014. ISBN 978-3-7774-2278-7
• Ana Mendieta. Traces. Dt. und Engl. Ausgabe. Salzburg: Museum der Moderne Salzburg/Ostfildern: Hatje-Cantz, 2014. ISBN 978-3-7757-3764-7
• Isa Genzken. Retrospective. Engl., New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2013. ISBN 978-0-87070-886-2
• Utopia and Monument. Graz: steirischer herbst/Wien-New York: Springer Verlag, 2010. ISBN 978-3-7091-0772-0
• Modernologies. Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism. Barcelona: MACBA/Actar, 2009. ISBN 978-84-92505-13-5
• Ausstellungen. Generali Foundation. Exhibitions 1989–2007. Dt./Engl., Wien: Generali Foundation/Köln: Walther König, 2008. ISBN 978-3-901107-54-2
• Edward Krasinski. Les mises en scène. Dt./Engl., Wien: Generali Foundation/Köln: Walther König, 2006. ISBN 3-901107-49-5
• Gustav Metzger. History History. Wien: Generali Foundation/Ostfildern: Hatje-Cantz, 2005. ISBN 3-901107-47-9
• Occupying Space. Sammlung Generali Foundation Collection. Dt./Engl., Wien: Generali Foundation/Köln: Walther König, 2003. ISBN 3-901107-42-8
• Allan Sekula. Performance under Working Conditions. Dt./Engl., Wien: Generali Foundation/Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2003. ISBN 3-901107-39-8
• Adrian Piper. seit 1965. Metakunst und Kunstkritik. Dt., Wien: Generali Foundation/Köln: Walther König, 2002. ISBN 3-901107-36-3
• Mia san mia. Hans Haacke. Dt./Engl., Wien: Generali Foundation/Dresden: Philo Verlag der Kunst, 2001. ISBN 3-364-00392-0
• double life. Identität und Transformation in der zeitgenössischen Kunst / Identity und Transformation in Contemporary Arts. Dt./Engl., Wien: Generali Foundation/Köln: Walther König, 2001. ISBN 3-901107-28-2
• vivências / Lebenserfahrung / life experience. Dt./Engl., Wien: Generali Foundation/Köln: Walther König, 2000. ISBN 3-901107-28-2
• RE-PLAY. Anfänge internationaler Medienkunst in Österreich / Beginnings of international Media Art in Austria. Dt./Engl., ISBN 3-901107-27-4
• Martha Rosler. Positionen in der Lebenswelt. Dt., Wien: Generali Foundation/Köln: Walther König, 1999. ISBN 3-901107-23-1
• Mary Kelly. Post-Partum Dokument. Dt. Ausgabe, Wien: Generali Foundation/ München: Verlag Silke Schreiber und Wien: Generali Foundation/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999.
• Mary Kelly. Rereading Post-Partum Document. Dt./Engl., Wien: Generali Foundation, 1999. ISBN 3-901107-25-8
• Pichler. Prototypen 1966–69. Dt./Engl., Wien: Generali Foundation/Salzburg: Residenz Verlag, 1998. ISBN 3-7017-1146-1
• Reorganizing Structure by Drawing Through It. Zeichnung bei Gordon Matta-Clark. Dt./Engl., Wien: Generali Foundation/Köln: Walther König, 1997. ISBN 3-901107-18-5
• White Cube/Black Box. Dt./Engl., Wien: Generali Foundation/Köln: Walther König, 1996. ISBN 3-901107-14-2
• Andrea Fraser. Report: EA-Generali Foundation, Wien: Generali Foundation, 1994. ISBN 3-901107-12-6

• Breitwieser on walkerart.org