Georg Schöllhammer is an Austrian curator, writer and editor, born in 1958 in

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. He is one of the founders and the editor in chief of the influential art magazine '' Springerin'' based in

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and was the initiator, head and editor in chief of the ''

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''. Georg Schoellhammer studied architecture, art history and philosophy. Between 1988 and 1994, he was the editor for fine arts of the newspaper

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. From 1992 on, he was visiting professor for Theory of Contemporary Art at the

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. He published extensively on fine arts, architecture and art theory. He gave lectures and held seminars at various universities and colleges around the world and he was curator for the international cooperative project “translocatione new media_art”; he also co-curated the festival “du bist die welt” of the annual

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in 2001, as well as exhibitions in

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and

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schollhammer, Georg 1958 births Austrian art curators Writers from Linz Academic staff of the University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz Living people