Peter Noever


Peter Noever 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 ; 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, 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, 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. 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 in West Hollywood and the Mackey Apartments. In 2010, he also—together with architects Michael Ferguson and Kirby Smith —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, St. Petersburg, Havana, and elsewhere.
The MAK satellite project CAT – Contemporary Art Tower 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 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 of Prince Eugene at the Belvedere, Vienna, 2015.
2014–2016 “Vienna for Art’s Sake!” and “Germany mon amour!” Archives of contemporary art 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)

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, 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

Committees and Memberships