The Board
Eva Badura-Triska
1979-2019 curator at mumok, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Co-founder of Archiv Franz West and general secretary from 1999
1996 curator of the first retrospective Franz West. Proforma, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Kunsthalle Basel, Kroeller-Mueller Museum Otterlo. The exhibition was ranked among the ten best exhibitions of the year by the American art magazine Artforum.
1996 curator Franz West. Combi, Künstlerhaus Bregenz
2013 curator of the first posthumous retrospective Franz West. Wo ist mein Achter? / Where is my Eight?, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (mumok), Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) Frankfurt, The Hepworth Wakefield (2014)
Author of numerous texts on Franz West’s work
Ludwig Badura
Lawyer. Projectdeveloper / real estate.
1996–now project development at Rhomberg Bau Ltd. and others
Since 2003 vice president of Archiv Franz West
Martina Kandeler-Fritsch
Studied law (not completed), then art history at the University of Vienna, as well as postgraduate training for “Museum and Exhibition Curators in the Art Business” at the Wissenschaftliche Landesakademie Krems, Lower Austria
Deputy Scientific Managing Director, Head of Collection and Exhibitions, MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
Curator of numerous exhibitions in the fields of art, architecture, design and more; texts on art, architecture and design, editor of publications, member of juries etc.
1986/87 worked at Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna
1990 curator Franz West – Heimo Zobernig, Kunstverein Horn and Gallery of the City of Prague (together with Dieter Bogner)
2001 curator Franz West. Gnadenlos, MAK Vienna
2002 curator Franz West. Merciless, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
Since 2025 board member of Archiv Franz West
Edelbert Koeb
1965–1992 artistic activity, sculpture, works on the border of art and design
1966–1974 assistant Vienna University of Technology
1974–2010 chair Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
1985–1995 and 1998–2000 deputy director of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
1983–1991 president Vienna Secession
1990–2000 founding director Kunsthaus Bregenz
2002–2010 director mumok Vienna
Since 2011 freelance curator
Since 2012 president of the Archives Franz West
1987 curator of Franz West. Ansicht at the Vienna Secession, the first institutional solo exhibition in Vienna, with another showing at Kunsthalle Bern (catalog and text)
1990 curator of Franz West in the series Bildhauerfotografien, Vienna Secession, Graphisches Kabinett (print room)
1998 exhibition participation by Franz West at Life Style at Kunsthaus Bregenz
Franz West takes part in projects at the mumok; purchases of works by Franz West for mumok
2010 on the occasion of Koeb’s farewell from mumok West bestows the Koeb Motette composed by Michael Mautner and creates a dish for the farewell party
Benedikt Ledebur
Studied theology in Fribourg, computer science and philosophy in Vienna
Collaborations with Franz West:
2005 and 2006 Der Ficker 1 & 2 (publications: Schlebrügge, Vienna)
2006 THE FORM OF ENJOYMENT – Fragrances Obsessed by Herb, or the Sneeze in Art, in: Franz West. Displacement and Condensation, Gagosian Gallery
2011 Extroversion, a talk / ein Gespräch (publication: Schlebrügge, Vienna)
Further publications include:
2014 Ein Fall für die Philosophie – Über Dichtung, Rhetorik und Mathematik, Klever Verlag, Vienna
2015 Das Paradox des Realen – Essays zur Kunst, Schlebrügge, Vienna
2017 Tamuna Sirbiladze (ed. with Lucas Zwirner), David Zwirner Books, New York
2026 Portraits of Friends, Marburg
Since 2022 board member of Archiv Franz West
Peter Noever
Designer, exhibition creator, curator-at-large art / architecture / media
1986–2011 CEO and artistic director MAK Vienna / Los Angeles
Founder of MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles (based on three houses designed by the pioneering architect rudolf m. schindler) and of the Josef Hoffmann Museum in Brtnice, Czech Republic
Exhibitions and guest lectures worldwide
Since 2012 board member of Archiv Franz West / invited personally by Franz West to join the Archiv Franz West in 2000
Selection of Franz West exhibitions / interventions MAK:
12 Diwans consisting of 24 divans, MAK Vienna, acquisition 1998
Art in the public space – Vier Lemurenköpfe, Wien 2001 (Stubenbrücke)
Gnadenlos, MAK Vienna, 2001/02 with performance/intervention „Par Bleu“
Merciless, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, 2002
Sit on my chair, lay on my bed. MAK Vienna, 2008
Das Spiel der Mächtigen / The Game of the Mighty, MAK Vienna, 2009/10
Austria Davaj!, Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, 2011
Peter Pakesch
1976–1979 consultant for Fine Arts at Forum Stadtpark Graz
1981-1993 runs Galerie Peter Pakesch Vienna
1986-1988 artistic director of the Kunstverein Graz
1993–1995 exhibition projects for the National Gallery in Prague
1996-2003 director Kunsthalle Basel
2003 - 2015 manager and artistic director of the Universalmuseums Joanneum as well as until 2011 director of the associated Kunsthaus Graz.
Since 2015 chairman of the board of Maria Lassnig-Stiftung
Member of various advisory councils, commissions and juries
1985–1993 exclusive representation of Franz West at Galerie Pakesch, exhibitions and exhibition participations in both Viennese gallery locations (Ballgasse and Ungargasse) as well as initiation, conciliation and support of numerous national and international exhibitions and exhibition participations.
1996 adaptation of Franz West. Proforma in Kunsthalle Basel
2009 curator of the exhibition Franz West. Autotheater (Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Kunsthaus Graz 2010) and Museo d’arte contemporanea Donnaregina (MADRE) Naples (2010) with Kasper König and Mario Codognato
Since 2012 board member of Archiv Franz West
© 2022 Archiv Franz West
Impressum: Percept: Peter Noever / Design: Patrick Anthofer
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