Hans-Peter Wipplinger

Hans-Peter Wipplinger ( 12 January 1968 in Schärding) is an Austrian exhibition creator, author and museum director. He serves as the museological director of the Leopold Museum in Vienna. Under his leadership, the museum has hosted numerous significant exhibitions. He has been instrumental in fostering cross-cultural dialogue, particularly between Austrian and German artistic traditions. He has earned multiple accolades, including the viennaARTaward in 2019, and the Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande, in 2020. 
== Career ==
Hans-Peter Wipplinger studied art history, theater and media studies, as well as communication science at Vienna University. He graduated with a diploma thesis on the artist Christian Boltanski entitled “Das Phänomen der Konstruktion von Geschichte. Erinnern und Vergessen – Wissenschaftlicher Geschichtsdiskurs versus künstlerische Annäherung zur Darstellung von Geschichte. Exemplifiziert am Beispiel der künstlerischen Arbeit des Spurensicherers und Gedächtniskünstlers Christian Boltanski”..
Hans-Peter Wipplinger has worked, among other institutions, at the OK. Centrum für Gegenwartskunst in Linz (1992–1994), the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York (2000–2001) as well as for the Viennale|Viennale – Vienna International Film Festival (2001–2003). In 1998 he founded the art and communications agency “art:phalanx – Kunst- und Kommunikationsbüro” (together with Heide Linzer) aimed at conceptualizing, financing, realizing and mediating art and cultural projects in Austria, heading the company as managing partner until the end of 2008. From 2003 to 2007 he acted as Director of the Museum Moderner Kunst in Passau, curating, among others, monographic exhibitions on Anna Jermolaewa (2004), Franz West (2004), Yoko Ono (2005), Jürgen Klauke (2006), Zoran Mušič (2007) and Dan Perjovschi (2007).
From 2009 to 2015 he was the Director of the Kunsthalle Krems, the Factory, the Kunstraum Stein as well as of the AIR – artist-in-residence program in the Lower Austrian city of Krems an der Donau. At the beginning of his directorship, he was tasked with advancing the exhibition program of the Kunstmeile Krems, with re-positioning individual associated exhibition institutions, with devising new strategies in the areas of corporate identity, corporate design and press and public relations, and with establishing stronger networks with international art institutions. At the Kunsthalle Krems he curated acclaimed retrospective exhibitions on Paula Modersohn-Becker (2010) and Francis Picabia (2012), solo exhibitions on Joseph Beuys (2008), Daniel Spoerri (2011) and Gelatin and Sarah Lucas (2011), as well as themed exhibitions, including “Sehnsucht nach dem Abbild. Das Porträt im Wandel der Zeit” (2009), “Nouveau Réalisme” (2011) and “Große Gefühle. Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart” (2013).
Together with Tomas Zierhofer-Kin, the artistic director of the Donaufestival Krems, he developed new presentation formats at the point of intersection between performance, sound art and installation, sounding out pop-cultural and performative limits in a dialogue with visual arts. In the context of these cooperations, he hosted artists including Douglas Gordon (2013), Tino Sehgal (2013), John Bock (2012), Jonathan Meese (2011), Ole Aselmann (2011), Franz Graf & Franz Pomassl, Magnus Arnason (2010) at the Kunsthalle Krems.
Since June 2015 he has held the position of Artistic Director of the Leopold Museum, curating, among others, retrospectives on Wilhelm Lehmbruck (2016), Ferdinand Hodler (2017), Zoran Mušič (2018) and Richard Gerstl (2019), the dialogue exhibition "Carl Spitzweg — Erwin Wurm. Hilarious! Hilarious?" (2017) as well as the new permanent presentation of the museum’s collection "Vienna 1900. Birth of Modernism" (2019). In October 2020 he was appointed Director of the Leopold Museum for a further five years.
He has served and continues to serve as a member of various juries and advisory committees, among others for the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture, Vienna; for juries of the States of Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Salzburg and Tyrol; as a member of the Cultural Senate of Lower Austria; as a jury member of the T-Mobile Art Award, the Boston Consulting Group|Boston Consulting & Belvedere Art Award, the Prague Art Award, the Strabag Art Award and that of the Austrian Post|Austrian Post AG.
As an author and editor he has written numerous scientific essays on modern and contemporary art.
== Curated exhibitions ==
* 2001: Hiroshi Sugimoto. Movie Theaters/Drive Ins. Viennale – Vienna International Film Festival, Vienna
* 2002: Yoko Ono. From My Window, Viennale – Vienna International Film Festival, Vienna
* 2004: Gabriele Münter – Paula Modersohn-Becker – Margret Bilger. Den Blick als Frau gerichtet [The Female Gaze], Museum Moderner Kunst Passau
* 2004: Das Wunder Mensch. Internationale Fotokunst aus der Sammlung Gundlach [The Miracle of Man. International Photographic Art from the Gundlach Collection], Museum Moderner Kunst Passau
* 2004: Franz West. Lost Eight, Museum Moderner Kunst Passau
* 2005: Die Ordnung der Natur [The Order of Nature], Museum Moderner Kunst Passau
* 2005: Pablo Picasso – Max Beckmann. Druckgrafik und Zeichnung [Printed Graphic Works and Drawings], Museum Moderner Kunst Passau
* 2005: Yoko Ono. Retrospective, Museum Moderner Kunst Passau
* 2005: Dietmar Brehm. Blickzwang [Forced Gaze], Museum Moderner Kunst Passau 
* 2006: Erwin Bohatsch. Verläufe – Gradients, Museum Moderner Kunst Passau 
* 2006: Jürgen Klauke. Hoffnungsträger. Aspekte des desaströsen Ich [The Bearer of Hope. Aspects of the Disastrous Self], Museum Moderner Kunst Passau 
* 2006: Yves Klein. Der Sprung ins Leere. Pretiosen des Nouveau Réalisme [The Leap into Nothing. Precious Items of Nouveau Réalisme], Museum Moderner Kunst Passau 
* 2006: Jso Maeder. Vom Glück auf Erden [Of the Joy on Earth], Museum Moderner Kunst Passau 
* 2007: Miroslav Tichý; Artists for Tichý – Tichý for Artists, Museum Moderner Kunst Passau 
* 2007: Zoran Music. Retrospective, Museum Moderner Kunst Passau 
* 2007: Dan Perjovschi. Hotel Europa, Museum Moderner Kunst Passau 
* 2008: Gelitin, Constantin Luser, Ursula Mayer, Misha Stroj. Augarten Contemporary Belvedere Vienna 
* 2008: Joseph Beuys. Schamane [Shaman], Kunsthalle Krems 
* 2009: Sehnsucht nach dem Abbild. Das Porträt im Wandel der Zeit [The Longing for the Likeness. The Portrait Through the Ages], Kunsthalle Krems 
* 2009: Siggi Hofer. Heilige Freiheit [Sacred Freedom], Kunsthalle Krems 
* 2009: Bazon Brock. Zeig dein Liebstes gut, zeig dein liebstes Gut [Show What You Love Well], Kunstraum Stein 
* 2010: Thomas Palme. Rotten Home, Factory 
* 2010: Paula Modersohn-Becker. Retrospective, Kunsthalle Krems 
* 2010: Franz Graf. Retrospective, Kunsthalle Krems 
* 2010: Lebenslust & Totentanz. Olbricht Collection [Zest for Life & Dance of Death], Kunsthalle Krems 
* 2011: Nouveau Réalisme, Kunsthalle Krems 
* 2011: Daniel Spoerri. Ein Augenblick für eine Ewigkeit. Das Frühwerk [A Moment for Eternity. The Early Oeuvre], Kunsthalle Krems 
* 2011: Von Engeln & Bengeln. 400 Jahre Kinder im Porträt [Of Angels and Rascals. Portraits of Children Throughout 400 Years], Kunsthalle Krems 
* 2011: Sarah Lucas – Hieronymus Bosch – Gelatin, Kunsthalle Krems 
* 2012: John Bock, Kunsthalle Krems 
* 2012: Francis Picabia. Retrospective, Kunsthalle Krems 
* 2012: Anna Jermolaewa, Kunsthalle Krems 
* 2012: Thomas Feuerstein. Candylab, Kunsthalle Krems 
* 2013: Große Gefühle. Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart [Grand Emotions. From Antiquity to the Present], Kunsthalle Krems 
* 2013: Elfie Semotan, Personale [Solo Exhibition], Kunsthalle Krems 
* 2013: Kiki Kogelnik. Retrospective, Kunsthalle Krems 
* 2013: Yoko Ono. Half-A-Wind-Show, Kunsthalle Krems 
* 2014: William Kentridge. Ten Drawings for Protection, Kunsthalle Krems 
* 2014: Constantin Luser 
* 2014: Martha Jungwirth. Retrospective, Kunsthalle Krems 
* 2014: Dominik Steiger. Retrospective, Kunsthalle Krems 
* 2015: Pipilotti Rist. Komm Schatz, wir stellen die Medien um & fangen nochmals von vorne an [Come, Darling, Let Us Change the Media and Start Afresh], Kunsthalle Krems (curated together with Stephanie Damianitsch) 
* 2015: Ernesto Neto, Kunsthalle Krems 
* 2016: Wilhelm Lehmbruck. Retrospective, Leopold Museum
* 2017: Carl Spitzweg — Erwin Wurm. Hilarious! Hilarious?, Leopold Museum
* 2017: Ferdinand Hodler. Elective Affinities from Klimt to Schiele, Leopold Museum
* 2018: Zoran Mušič. The Poetry of Silence (curated together with Ivan Ristić), Leopold Museum
* 2019: Vienna 1900. Birth of Modernism (new presentation of the Leopold Collection), Leopold Museum
* 2019: Richard Gerstl. Inspiration – Legacy (curated together with Diethard Leopold), Leopold Museum
* 2021: Josef Pillhofer. In a dialogue with Cézanne, Giacometti, Picasso, Rodin ..., Leopold Museum
* 2022: Alfred Kubin: Confessions of a Tormented Soul, curated in collaboration with August Ruhs.
* 2022: Hagenbund: From Moderate to Radical Modernism, curated with Dominik Papst and Stefan Üner.
* 2023: Egon Schiele from the Collection of the Leopold Museum – Young Genius in Vienna 1900, curated alongside Diethard Leopold at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.
== Editorship and publications ==
* Jürgen Klauke. Hoffnungsträger. Aspekte des desaströsen Ich. Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2006, ISBN 3-938821-87-6.
* Joseph Beuys. Heilkräfte der Kunst. Edited by Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Volker Rattemeyer and Axel H. Murken. Verlag Murken-Altrogge, Herzogenrath 2006, ISBN 978-3-935791-23-6.
* Jso Maeder. Vom Glück auf Erden. Edited by Hans-Peter Wipplinger and Simon Maurer. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-86560-373-9.
* Joseph Beuys. Schamane. Edited by Hans-Peter Wipplinger and Dieter Buchhart. Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-940748-91-1.
* Adolf Frohner. Monographie. Edited by Hans-Peter Wipplinger and Dieter Ronte. Verlag Christian Brandstätter, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85033-280-4.
* Paula Modersohn-Becker. Pionierin der Moderne. Edited by Hans-Peter Wipplinger and Rainer Stamm. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7774-2631-0.
* Siggi Hofer. Heilige Freiheit, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-941185-75-3.
* Franz Graf. Schwarz heute jetzt… Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86984-025-3.
* Daniel Spoerri. Ein Augenblick für eine Ewigkeit, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2010. ISBN 978-3-86984-166-3.
* Lebenslust und Totentanz. Olbricht Collection, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86560-852-9.
* Sarah Lucas – Hieronymus Bosch – Gelatin, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-86335-053-6.
* Padhi Frieberger. Glanz und Elend der Moderne, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86984-345-2.
* Francis Picabia. Retrospektive, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-901261-50-3.
* Große Gefühle. Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86984-427-5.
* Martha Jungwirth. Retrospektive, Kerber Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-901261-56-5
* Dominik Steiger. Retrospektive, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-901261-59-6
* Pipilotti Rist. Komm Schatz, wir stellen die Medien um & fangen nochmals von vorne an, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-901261-61-9
* Ernesto Neto, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-86335-786-3
* Wilhelm Lehmbruck. Retrospektive, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-9503018-8-5 [bilingual edition (German and English)]
* Carl Spitzweg — Erwin Wurm. Köstlich! Köstlich? Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-9504025-7-5 [bilingual edition (German and English)]
* Ferdinand Hodler. Wahlverwandtschaften von Klimt bis Schiele, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-9504455-6-5 [bilingual edition (German and English)]
* Zoran Mušič. Poesie der Stille, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-9504518-1-8
* Leopold Museum and Kunsthaus Zug, Hans-Peter Wipplinger and Matthias Haldemann (eds.): Richard Gerstl|RICHARD GERSTL. Inspiration – Vermächtnis, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, ISBN 978-3-9504592-6-5 [bilingual edition (German and English)]
* Ivan Ristić and Hans-Peter Wipplinger (eds.): German expressions in English|Deutscher Expressionismus. Die Sammlungen Braglia und Johenning, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, ISBN 978-3-9504592-7-2 [bilingual edition (German and English)]
* Hans-Peter Wipplinger (ed.): Hundertwasser – Schiele. Imagine Tomorrow, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, ISBN 978-3-96098-765-9 [bilingual edition (German and English)]
* Hans-Peter Wipplinger (ed.): Josef Pillhofer. In a dialogue with Cézanne, Giacometti, Picasso, Rodin ..., Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln, ISBN 978-3-9504888-5-2 [bilingual edition (German and English)]
* The Schedlmayer Collection: A Discovery! (with Ivan Ristić, 2020).
* Ludwig Wittgenstein: Photography as Analytical Practice (with Verena Gamper, 2020).
* Alfred Kubin: Confessions of a Tormented Soul (2020).
* The View from the Frame: Donation of the Klewan Collection (with Stefan Kutzenberger, 2021).
* Franz Hagenauer (with Ivan Ristić, 2021).
* Hagenbund: From Moderate to Radical Modernity (2022).
* Tilla Durieux: A Witness of the Century and Her Roles (with Daniela Gregori, 2022).
== Awards==
In 2019 Hans-Peter Wipplinger received the viennaARTaward, one of the most prestigious art prizes in Austria, and in 2020 was honored with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his outstanding services to German-Austrian cultural relations
 
Category:1968 births
Category:Austrian artists
Category:Austrian directors