Curriculum vitae

Dr. Dieter Bogner was born in Vienna in 1942.
From 1968 to 1974, he studied Art History, Philosophy and Classical Archaeology in Vienna and Paris, where he completed a doctoral thesis on Romanesque mural paintings in the Loire region. He then became a university assistant at the Department of Art History at the University of Vienna, a position he held until 1984. During this time, his research focus turned to modern and contemporary art and cultural studies as well as the theory of art history. In addition to teaching at university, he worked as an independent exhibition curator and author.
In 1989/1990, he developed the concept for the art and culture complex MuseumsQuartier in Vienna.
From 1990 to 1994 he was managing director of the MuseumsQuartier Errichtungs- und Betriebsgesellschaft  and responsible for the content development, museum planning and marketing. In 1994, he founded bogner.cc, a private company dedicated to museological specialist planning services, to curating new displays for collections and to the development of cultural and strategic museum concepts worldwide.
In 2005, he completed his habilitation in History of Art and Architecture at the University of Vienna.
From 1990 to 2001, he headed the institut für kulturwissenschaften (institute for cultural studies) in Vienna, which offered postgraduate training and continuing education programmes to museum, exhibition and communication curators.
During the 1990s, he taught courses as a visiting professor in the field of museum and exhibition studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the University of Klagenfurt and the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences.
He is one of the founders and former president of the board of the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation and a member of the Board of Trustees at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.

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