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Nina Ansperger will be the new artistic and scientific director of museum gugging in Klosterneuburg on January 1, 2023. She succeeds museum founder Johann Feilacher, who is retiring following 16 years at the helm of the exhibition house.
According to information from Friday, the 42-year-old previous curator prevailed once morest eight other applicants. In a press release, Ansperger emphasized that he wanted to “expand the museum gugging as a meeting place”. “After 20 years of professional activity in the museum sector and thanks to the long-standing connection with the artists from Gugging, I am looking forward to this wonderful and challenging task,” Ansperger was quoted as saying.
Museum founder Johann Feilacher brought art from Gugging to international recognition. The new director wants to build on this and create a “place of inclusion, participation and open discourse”. In addition to the artists from Gugging, there will be a stronger focus on international Art Brut artists in the future. March 30, 2023 goes with “gugging inspired.! bowie bis roth” Ansperger’s first exhibition as artistic and scientific director of the museum.
Has worked at museum gugging for 13 years
“Her excellent work for the museum gugging over the past 13 years as head of exhibition production, art mediator, catalog author and curator was certainly an essential basis for her very convincing application and her ideas for the museum gugging,” emphasized Matthias Pacher, Managing Director of Lower Austria Museum Betriebs GmbH. “What was decisive in the end, however, was her concept of positioning the museum gugging even more as a lively and modern art museum.”
Ansperger studied art history and folklore at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz as well as image management and image science at the Danube University Krems. Her professional path led her via the Kunsthaus Graz and the children’s museum FRida & freD to the Westlicht gallery and finally 13 years ago to the museum gugging.
Feilacher ends his function as artistic director at the end of the year following 52 exhibitions and 25 publications. According to the broadcast, he will remain in other functions at the Art Brut Center in Maria Gugging.
