Sophie Goltz

Director
Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg

Sophie Goltz lives and works in Salzburg and Berlin as a curator, art educator and author. In 2020 she was appointed director of the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts. From 2017 to 2020, she taught as an Assistant Professor in the new Museum Studies and Curatorial Practice (MA) programme at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University Singapore and served as Deputy Director of Research and Academic Education at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. From 2013 to 2016, she was Artistic Director of Stadtkuratorin Hamburg. Prior to this, From she worked as a curator at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein from 2008 to 2017, where she also became Head of Communications and Art Education until 2013.

She conceived and organised multiple art education projects including: Documenta 11 and Documenta 12 (Kassel, 2002 and 2007), 3rd Berlin Biennale (2004), Project Migration (Zurich/Cologne, 2004-06). Most recently Goltz published Culture City. Culture Scape. (together with Ute Meta Bauer and Khim Ong, NUS Press, 2021) and Passages. Art in Public Space Hamburg since 1981 (fin Erscheinung, Spector Books). Goltz has held teaching positions at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee and the Akademie für angewandte Kunst Wien, among others. 

Sophie Goltz visited the Netherlands on a research trip as part of the exchange with the Mondriaan Fonds in 2023.

Sophie Goltz. Photo: Courtesy of the curator