Speaker
MA Visual Arts Administration, 2009
Artistic Director, Vienna Art Week and Founder ART&IDEA
Robert Punkenhofer is founding director of ART&IDEA, CEO/ Chief Curator of Vienna Art Week and co-owner of Carl Suchy & Söhne. In his work he crosses the limits of art, architecture, design and fashion as well as international business and diplomacy. He is responsible for more than 100 exhibitions and special projects on 3 continents, amongst others the visionary Mur Island with Vito Acconci for Graz European Capital of Culture, Vienna Art Week, Austria´s participation at the World Fairs in Aichi, Japan, Zaragossa, Spain and Shanghai, China as well as Flow Festival, the first open space for science and culture in the Danube region. He worked as Director of the Austrian Design Foundation, the Creative Industry Office at Austria´s Foreign Trade Organization as well as guest curator at Apex Art in New York and Goethe Institut Barcelona. He served as a member of the International Advisory Council at Princeton University/ PLAS and was visiting professor at New York University.