Max Hollein

Max Hollein has been the director of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt since 2001, and director of the Städel Museum as well as the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung since January 2006.

During 1995 and 2000 he worked at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, from 1998 onward, as Chief of Staff and Manager of European Relations. Max Hollein was general commissioner and curator of the American pavilion at the Seventh Venice Architecture Biennale in 2000, general commissioner and curator of the Austrian pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale in 2005 and 2006 curator of the avant-garde festival "kontra.com" in Salzburg.

He is a member of various supervisory and advisory boards of cultural institutions worldwide, including the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Istanbul Modern Museum, the Neue Galerie in New York. He has curated numerous shows and published a large number of exhibition catalogues and a wide spectrum of other writings on contemporary art, modern art and museum management.