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 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), which is 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.
Peterle will present insights into how her curatorial practice was shaped by a rather unusual curatorial biography, moving from a cultural-historical institution with a collection to contemporary performance art in a festival context, as well as from a contemporary art production house to commissioning public art in the MuseumsQuartier Vienna, which is one of the largest districts for contemporary art and culture in the world. She will reflect on how the breadth of her education and professional experience informs her understanding of curating in different institutional contexts, as well as the challenges of enabling while operating inside these frameworks, constantly working toward the openness that we all talk about in the art world, but which is still a long way off.
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