New leadership at Kunstverein Baden

Over the past 16 years, Cornelia König has implemented a multifaced programme at Kunstverein Baden and initiated sustainable collaborations. I feel deeply honoured to succeed her in this role and to take over as artistic director from 2024. Following this path, my aim is to create a varied exhibition programme including local and international artists in the upcoming years, foster networking opportunities for current and new members, continue existing collaborations and start new, subregional partnerships, strengthen the visibility of the Kunstverein, and above all, (un)learn from and with each other through consistent exchange.

Katja Stecher

As an art educator and curator, Katja Stecher works at the interface of these two practices and is interested in the structural conditions of the art world, starting with her critical examination of the Open Call. From 2015 to 2023 she was in charge of the program of studio das weisse haus and currently works in the art mediation department at Belvedere. As an independent curator, Katja Stecher regularly writes exhibition and artist texts and has realized exhibitions such as nonstop (Kunstverein Schattendorf) and playing string figures (Kunstverein Baden). In 2022, she received the federal government's scholarship for a curatorial residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris and was a lecturer in the Department of Site-Specific Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.