She succeeds Christian Strasser. The Upper Austrian and former head of the Linz Posthof will move to the top of Sozialbau AG on January 1st.
Leidl’s order was announced on Friday by State Secretary for Art and Culture Andrea Mayer (Greens). 25 applications were received, eight of them from women. Seven people were invited to hearings.
Bettina Leidl, born in 1962, spent the first five years of her life in Schörfling am Attersee before moving to Salzburg with her parents. She was the managing director of KÖR – Art in Public Space GmbH, the Kunsthalle Wien and “departure” and has been the sole managing director of the Kunst Haus Wien since 2014. She is also President of ICOM Austria.
In her application, Leidl placed a special focus on the topic of sustainability, according to a broadcast today. In the long term, the MuseumsQuartier should take on a pioneering role in the ecological transformation. The opening of the area as a place for discourse was another focus of your application.
Source: Nachrichten
