Angela Stief

The art historian (Art History and Philosophy) and curator Angela Stief, born in Augsburg in 1974, was a curator at Kunsthalle Wien from 2002 to 2013. Since 2018, she has been a curatorial advisor for the Vienna Art Week and has conceptualized outsider exhibitions at the Österreichische Gesellschaft vom Goldenen Kreuze. In 2020, she assumed the guest professorship for curatorial practice at the University of Linz. Since July 2020, she has been the Chief Curator of Albertina modern, and prior to that, she was part of the curator team for the opening exhibition The Beginning: Art in Austria from 1945 to 1980. In October 2021, Stief was appointed as the director of Albertina Modern and Chief Curator for contemporary art at the Albertina. She regularly publishes texts on contemporary art in monographs, exhibition catalogs, art magazines, and periodicals (Artforum, Fair, Kunstforum International, Parnass, Profil, etc.).