DR. GERTRAUD BOGNER

After completing her training, Gertraud Bogner worked as a physiotherapist in Italy and Austria from 1969 to 1972. Then from 1973 to 1982 she worked as a certified tour guide in Vienna and studied ethnology, art history and philosophy at the University of Vienna, including study trips to Paris and the Algerian Sahara. She obtained her doctorate in 1983.

In 1979 she founded the Kunstraum Buchberg, Buchberg Castle on the river Kamp (previously Exakte Tendenzen), together with Dieter Bogner; they have jointly run the space ever since. In this context Gertraud Bogner was and is responsible for organising exhibitions and symposia, supervising publication projects and managing the collection and archive of constructive and conceptual art. Since 1982 she has collaborated on the development and production of thirty permanent spatial installations in the rooms and gardens of Buchberg Castle. Gertraud Bogner was joint editor with her husband Dieter of the book Raumkunst.Kunstraum about Buchberg Castle and its spatial concepts.

From 1994 to 2017 she was a shareholder of the museum planning company bogner.cc. In this role she was in charge of organisation, finances and project coordination.

Starting in 2007 extensive donations are made from the Bogners’ private collection to the mumok − Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, the Landessammlungen Niederösterreich, the Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, the Wien Museum and the Belvedere in Vienna. Gertraud Bogner is joint editor of the collection catalogues that document the Bogners’ gift to the mumok: Leidenschaftlich Exakt, art since 1945 (2012; together with Andrea Hubin) and Perspektiven in Bewegung, art of the interwar period, research collection (2017; together with Andrea Hubin, Manuel Millautz and Dieter Bogner). She has been a member of the mumok Board since 2010. In 2018 Gertraud Bogner organised the exhibition Yesterday, Today, Today (in cooperation with the mumok) with a new production of six permanent spatial installations from the Kunstraum Buchberg.

UNIV.-DOZ. DR. DIETER BOGNER

After being a self-employed entrepreneur in the steel and industrial facility business in Eastern Europe, Dieter Bogner studied art history, philosophy and classical archaeology in Vienna and Paris from 1968 to 1974. While teaching as an assistant in the Department of Art History at the University of Vienna, he was also working as an exhibition curator and author of art historical publications in the 1980s. In 2005 he habilitated in art history at the University of Vienna.

Together with Gertraud Bogner, he founded the Kunstraum Buchberg, Buchberg Castle on the river Kamp in Lower Austria, in 1979. There the couple has built up a collection of constructive and conceptual art; they curate exhibitions, organise symposia and publish catalogues and books. Dieter and Gertraud Bogner donated parts of their collection to the mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien in 2007. Thirty permanent spatial installations have been created in the interiors and exteriors of the castle since 1982.

In 1989 Dieter Bogner developed the concept for the MuseumsQuartier Wien and worked as the director of the Museumsquartier Errichtungs- und BetriebsgesmbH from 1990 to 1994. In 1994 he founded the company bogner.cc (since 2007 bogner.knoll), which operates internationally and focuses on specialist museum planning and exhibition organisation as well as devising cultural development plans. Among other projects, Bogner developed the museum master plans for Kassel and for Salzburg as well as the concept for the Museumsquartier Bern and for the Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kiev. He provided museological support in the planning process and during the construction of a series of new museum buildings, including the Kunsthaus Graz, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Bauhaus Museum Dessau, the Landessammlungen Niederösterreich in Krems and the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne. Bogner curated the new display of various collections at the Universalmuseum Joanneum (Folk Life, Natural History, Hunting, Agriculture), the rehang of the collections at Salzburg Museum and Klosterneuburg Monastery, and, as co-curator, the Kunstkammer at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. He developed feasibility studies for the future Museumsquartier Bern and, together with Katharina Knoll, for the Forum Recht in Karlsruhe. In 2019 he curated the exhibitionStanislav Kolíbal. Former Uncertain Indicated in the Czech and Slovak pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Dieter Bogner is co-founder of the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation in Vienna (1997) and was the chair of its board from 1997 to 2013. Starting with the first comprehensive retrospective at the Museum of the Twentieth Century in Vienna, he has curated numerous monographic exhibitions on Frederick Kiesler. Bogner was a member of the board of trustees at the New Museum of Contemporary Art New York from 1995 to 2018 and at the Museion – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Bolzano from 2006 to 2008. He is an honorary professor at the Danube University Krems.