Hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Dr. Astrid Peterle, curator and author, is the chief curator of Museumsquartier Vienna. From 2022 to September 2025, she was the Head of the Curatorial Department at the Kunsthalle Wien. There, she curated the exhibitions of the Kunsthalle Wien Prize (2022 and 2023), awarded annually to graduating students of the Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. From 2010 to 2022, Peterle worked at the Jewish Museum Vienna, becoming chief curator in 2018. While at the Jewish Museum Vienna, she took over the curatorial direction of the new conception of the permanent exhibition, Our Middle Ages! The First Jewish Community in Vienna at Museum Judenplatz (2018–2021). From 2017 to 2022, she also served as the curator for performance at the Donaufestival Krems. She is a widely published author on contemporary art and Viennese cultural history, with a particular focus on performance art, choreography, film, photography, and feminist art practice.

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