Culture

Working with artistic strategies creates an experimental playing field for utopias and for proposals beyond the feasibility of everyday politics as well as for exploring the possibilities of various artistic approaches.

We particularly promote independent projects and those engaged in the cultural sector by providing them with resources and cross-border contacts that are not embedded within state institutions. Most of our projects are transnational, involving research activities that focus on the visual arts from the 1960s to the present day.

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  Christine Böhler
  Director of Programme Culture
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  Christine Böhler

  

  Director of Programme Culture
  T:+43 (0)50100 - 19604
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  Christine is Deputy Managing Director of ERSTE Foundation and Director of Programme Culture. She is also Chairwomen of 'Kontakt. The Art Collection of Erste Group'. She has worked as a journalist as well as curator and was director of the reading and exhibition programme in the Literaturhaus Vienna. She directed various international festivals focusing on Literature, Arts and New Media. She developed the concept of the Lichtzeile - an LED billboard and a ticker in the Web as a form of literary publication. In 2001, she published the book 'Literatur im Netz. Projekte, Hintergründe, Strukturen und Verlage im Netz' (Literature on the web. Projects, backgrounds, structures and publishing companies on the web.) (Triton Verlag). Christine studied Comparative Literature and Spanish in Vienna and Madrid and lectured at the University of Innsbruck on cross-cultural topics.
  

   
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  Maria Derntl
  Programme Culture
  T: +43 (0)50100 - 15484
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  Maria Derntl

  

  Programme Culture
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  Since joining ERSTE Foundation in 2008, Maria has lead and executed projects as well as guided project partners through various application and development processes. Previously, she worked at documenta 12 and Tanzquartier Wien.
  

   
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  Christiane Erharter
  Programme Culture
  T: +43 (0)50100 - 15402
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  Christiane Erharter

  

  Programme Culture
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  Having worked as a curator of contemporary art in Innsbruck and Oslo has not only lead Christiane to working as a curator and project manager at ERSTE Foundation, but also to a membership in the Vienna based queer-feminist DJ collective 'Quote'! For Christiane, having studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and at Lund University in Sweden as well as writing a column for an.schläge - a feminist monthly magazine - has certainly contributed to her multifaceted life!
  

   
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  Barbora Orlíková
  Programme Assistant
  T: +43(0)50100-15495
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  Heide Wihrheim
  Programme Culture
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  Heide Wihrheim

  

  Programme Culture
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  Born in Fargo (USA), a place made famous by a Coen brothers' film, Heide spent most of her life in Austria. After finishing university programmes in journalism and theatre, film and media studies in Vienna and San Francisco, cornerstones in Heide's career were heading the press department at Tanzquartier Wien and working as production manager at Wiener Festwochen. After that, she worked with the sponsoring department of Erste Bank 'Kontakt. The Arts and Civil Society Programme of Erste Group'. All these vocational challenges have equipped her well for her latest challenge: the Culture Programme of ERSTE Foundation, where she started in 2009.