Sabine Breitwieser

After studying law in Linz, Breitwieser obtained her doctorate in law at the University of Vienna. She was initially coordinator and curator in 1988 and from 1991 to 2007 the first artistic director on the board of the Generali Foundation (founding director). In developing the initial plans for a collection of Austrian sculpture, she expanded the Generali Foundation's art collection with a focus on conceptual and critical art. This collection, as well as the exhibitions it has shown, have met with international acclaim. In 2003 and 2004 she was one of the curators of the International Liverpool Biennial and from 2003 to 2008 she was a member of the University Council of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In 2007 Sabine Breitwieser became Secretary and Treasurer of CIMAM (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art). From 2010 to 2013 she was chief curator for media and performance art at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. In the same year she completed the second part of her two-year project Utopia and Monument for the Styrian Autumn, which she had begun the previous year. From 2013 to 2018, she was the director of the Museum of Modern Salzburg (MdMS). In 2014, as part of her work as director, she agreed to a partnership with Generali and the relocation of the collection she had built up from Vienna to the Museum of Modern Salzburg (MdMS). Breitwieser also works as a freelance curator, lecturer and author on contemporary art.

Sabine Breitwieser (born April 6, 1962 in Wels, Austria) is an Austrian curator, art manager and publicist.