Peter Noever

Peter Noever (born 1 May 1941) is an Austrian designer and curator–at–large of art, architecture and media. From 1986 to 2011 he was the artistic director and CEO of MAK— Austrian Museum of Applied Arts and Contemporary Art in Vienna.

Life

Noever was born in Innsbruck. In 1971 he founded a concept store in Vienna, called “Section N”. The building was designed by Hans Hollein.

From 1975 to 1993 Noever worked as a lecturer of design analysis at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. In 1982 he founded an architecture magazine titled ''UMRISS'' (''Outline''); he was From 1989 he was publisher and editor-in-chief of ''UMRISS'', which lasted until 1994.

From 1986 to 2011 Noever was Artistic Director and C.E.O. of the MAK (Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art), based in Vienna.

From 1988 to 1989 he was visiting professor of museology at the Academy of Applied Arts, Vienna. Since 1997 Peter Noever he has belonged to the “Kurie für Kunst und Wissenschaft”, the most prestigious award for science and arts in Austria.

In 1994 Noever founded the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, with its Schindler Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program in West Hollywood (Los Angeles), adding to it the MAK program UFI – Urban Future Initiative in 2010. The activities of the MAK Center in Los Angeles take place at three locations, all buildings designed by the pioneering Austrian-American architect Rudolph M. Schindler (1887–1953). The third Schindler building, the Fitzpatrick-Leland House on Mulholland Drive, was entrusted to Peter Noever in 2008 as a donation of film producer Russ Leland for the MAK Center in Los Angeles. Noever also initiated and artistically oversaw the renovation of the Kings Road House (Schindler House) in West Hollywood and the Mackey Apartments (which are used for the residency program). In 2010, he also—together with architects Michael Ferguson and Kirby Smith (Space International Inc.)—completed the Mackey Apartments’ new garage structure including the “Garage Top.”

2006 Founding of the Josef Hoffmann Museum, Brtnice, a joint branch of the Moravian Gallery in Brno and the MAK Vienna.

As an exhibition creator, Noever has conceived and/or curated over 350 exhibitions in Vienna as well as in Los Angeles, Venice, New York, Moscow, Tokyo, Berlin, Prague, Brtnice, Budapest, Shenzhen (China), St. Petersburg, Havana, and elsewhere.

The MAK satellite project CAT – Contemporary Art Tower (with artistic interventions by Jenny Holzer and James Turrell) for the flak tower at Vienna's Arenberg Park could not be fully realized.

Golden Lion for the Best National Participation at the 2014 Venice Biennale of Architecture for Crow's Eye View: The Korean Peninsula. Peter Noever was part of the curatorial exhibition team of (South) Korea.

Peter Noever has overseen placement of over 20 sculptures in the public space and/or staged temporary public space interventions in Vienna, Los Angeles, and Venice. Most recently: Zaha Hadid, Trompe l’Oeil at the Winter Palace (City Palace) of Prince Eugene at the Belvedere, Vienna, 2015.

2014–2016 “Vienna for Art’s Sake!” and “Germany mon amour!” Archives of contemporary art (Austria and Germany) curated for Luciano Benetton's collection “imago mundi”.

Peter Noever lectures at main universities and art institutions around the world. He lives and works in Vienna together with the jurist and cultural manager Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör. Together they have a daughter, Louisa Vita Noever. His daughter from his first marriage, Ixy Nova Noever, is ethnologist, film maker and university lecturer at the University of applied arts Vienna.

Exhibitions and lectures (selection)

* 2019: exhibition project „Obsessions in Focus. Confrontations, Experiences, and Glowing Friendships“, April–May, SCI-Arc, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles.
* In 2019 exhibition project „Germany, mon Amour!“ / Imago Mundi/Luciano Benetton, Athens.
* Vadim Kosmatschof „Sculpture“, The New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia, 2018, Peter Noever curated together with Kirill Svetlyakov and Anna Mapolis.
* exhibition „declared_“, Peter Noever / Andrea Lenardin. Design as an interface between cultural diversity and global challenge in a time of dramatic political exclusion. Gallery Rauminhalt Vienna, 2018
* "Vienna For Art's Sake ! Contemporary Art Show", created by Peter Noever; 161 exceptional artists, architects, designers, 13 solo exhibitions / site-specific interventions: Vito + Maria Elena Acconci, Zaha hadid, Magdalena Jetelová, Michael Kienzer, Hans Kupelwieser, Hermann Nitsch, Eva Schlegel, Kiki Smith, the next ENTERprise, Iv Toshain, Atelier Van Lieshout, Koen Vanmechelen, Manfred Wakolbinger; Winter Palace/Belvedere Wien; starting point: Imago Mundi/Luciano Benetton Collection, Archive Austria, curated by Peter Noever, Wien, 2015
* "Crow’s Eye View: The Korean Peninsula", Golden Lion for Korean Pavilion, Peter Noever member of the curatorial team, 14. Architecture Biennale, Venice, 2014
* "Vienna For Art's Sake ! Archiv Austria", curated by Peter Noever; 161 outstanding artworks, collection Luciano Benetton, Vienna, 2014
* key note lecture and workshop at 2nd sunhoo industrial design & creativity festival, hangzhou, zhejiang province, china September 22–24, 2012
* Birgit Jürgenssen Award 2012, jury–member, academy of fine arts, Vienna
* "the (secret)* return of no/ever", exhibition at Ace Museum, exhibition committee: , Frank Gehry, Greg Lynn, Jeffrey Kipnis, Eric Owen Moss, Thom Mayne, Wolf Prix, exhibition designer: Alexis Rochas; Los Angeles, 2011/2012
* "Koen Vanmechelen. Modified Spaces", exhibition curated by Peter Noever, Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, China, 2011
* "Walter Pichler. Sculptures Models Drawings", curated by Peter Noever/Bärbel Fischer, MAK Vienna, 2011/2012
* "artworks on site / glasstress 2011", curated by Peter Noever, artists: Erwin Wurm, Michael Kienzer, Magdalena Jetelova, Koen Vanmechelen, Kendell Geers, Zaha Hadid; 54. Art Biennale Venice, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, 2011
* "Koen Vanmechelen. Nato a Venezia", curated by Peter Noever, 54. Art Biennale Venedig, Palazzo Loredan, 2011
* competition NYC/EDC illuminate lower manhattan, “place making through lighting initiative”, New York
* guest lecture and member of the “2nd SUNHOO International design forum”, Hangzhou, China
* ART curated by ... presentation and video-clip, “the open university of diversity”, Hasselt, Belgium
* disappearance art museum without art, lecture at the international congress “the history and future of art and design museums”, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Germany
* contemporary art territory 21 a radically new strategy for up–to–date art institutions, Los Angeles / Guangzhou / Vienna, SCI Arc, Los Angeles
* mind the gap lecture, Kaneko, Open Art Space, Omaha, Nebraska
* why not? Vienna – Pyongyang, a manifestation of art between worlds, lecture, national gallery, Pyongyang / DPRK
* NOW lecture at Studio Greg Lynn, Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
* Design as Strategy guest lecture at first e.co-design festival in Hangzhou, China
* Cosmos of Art lecture at NCCA – National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
* Architecture meets Art. Manifestation for the here and now. Lecture together with Koen Vanmechelen, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
* Out of the Blue. A radically new strategy for up-to-date art institutions Los Angeles / Guangzhou / Vienna. Lecture at the Forum of the 4th Guangzhou Triennial, China
* For the 5th Biennale di Architettura in Venezia, 1996 Peter Noever's land art project "The Pit" was selected by Günther Feuerstein (commissioner of the Austrian Pavilion). At the 7th Biennale di Architettura, 2000 in Venice he was Juror together with Dejan Sudjic, Charles Correa et al.; 2010 at the 12th Biennale di Architettura work of his was selected for the Austrian Pavilion and together with Hernan Diaz Alonso, Wolf D. Prix and Eric Owen Moss he joined the Panel Discussion upon the opening of the Austrian Pavilion.

Guest lecturer at various international universities in Europe, the US and Asia (selection)

In 2016 Peter Noever has been nominated as a possible candidate for the position of dean of the School of the Arts and Architecture of the University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles.

Muncie, Indiana / Havana, Cuba / Cheboksary, Chuvashia, Russia / Kanazawa, Japan / Moscow, Russia / Kiev, Ukraine / Zurich, Switzerland / Prague, Czech Republic / Budapest, Hungary / Belgrade, Serbia / Nicosia, Cyprus / New York and Los Angeles
Editor and author of numerous books, magazines and other publications on art, media, design and architecture.

Publications

* "Germany, mon amour ! Contemporary in Germany. Archive Art Architecture Design. Curated by Peter Noever. Publication featuring more than 200 outstanding artists, architects, designers.", 520 pages, Publisher: imago mundi, Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy, 2016.
* "Reflections on Zaha Hadid" with a contribution by Peter Noever; published by Serpentine Galleries / Hans Ulrich Obrist, London, 2016
* "Representing Force", Eliyahu Keller, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, May, 2016; featuring The Havana Project / Lebbeus Woods; published 2016
* "Vienna For Art's Sake ! Archive Austria / Contemporary Art. curated by Peter Noever", 161 artists, architects, designers. edited by FABRICA, imago mundi, Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy, 2014. 381 pages.
* Peter Noever, "chronisch obsessiv. Die Gegenwart muss erst erkämpft werden". edited by Gabriel Ramin Schor, introduction by Herbert Lachmayer; Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2008. 780 pages. .
*"design now © - what if...?", edited by Peter Noever, Vienna, no/ever–design art edition, 2012.
*"nato a venezia - Koen Vanmechelen / open university of diversity", 54. Biennale di Venezia, edited by Peter Noever, 2011
*"the ecretreturn of no/ever", exhibition catalog, ACE Museum, Los Angeles, SCI-Arc, 2011
*"Austria Dawaj!", edited by Martina Kandeler-Fritsch / Percept Peter Noever, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2011.
*"Dawaj! Russian Art Now. Aus dem Laboratorium der freien Künste in Russland", edited by Peter Noever and Joachim Sartorius, Hatje Cantz

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