Georg Schöllhammer is an editor, author, curator and editor-in-chief of the magazine springerin – Hefte für Gegenwartskunst (Vienna), which he co-founded in 1995. From 2005 to 2007, he was editor-in-chief of Documenta 12 magazines, an international cooperation project of more than hundred magazines worldwide. From 1988 to 1994, he worked as a visual arts editor for the newspaper Der Standard. In addition, Schöllhammer is the head of tranzit.at, he leads the research group Parallel Modernities – Architecture at the Margins of the Soviet Empire (Frankfurt/Berlin), he is the project director of Sweet Sixties (a joint research initiative on Late Modernism and Neo-Avant Guardes in Central and West Asia, the Caucasus, the Middle East and North Africa based in Istanbul and Vienna), and has co-founded the international research group Postwar Avant Gardes (Ljubljana, Barcelona, Vienna). Besides these initiatives, he currently is preparing a catalog and a retrospective of the Polish Artists KwieKulik (for the BWA Wroclaw and the Museum of Modern Art Warsawa) and a monographic exhibition on the oeuvre of Július Koller (Bratislava, Eindhoven). He collaborates with the research, publishing and exhibition project Former West (Utrecht, Eindhoven, Madrid and Warszawa) as a researcher. Schöllhammer is a member of the board of Kontakt. He has published widely on contemporary art, architecture, and theory, mainly around topics and on issues of urban and cultural transformation focusing on Central and Eastern Europe, Western and Central Asia and the Caucasus. He has given talks and lectures in major and minor arts institutions, academies, universities and self organized-spaces. Schöllhammer lives and works in Vienna.
