Director
jasper@phileas.art

Jasper Sharp (born 1975) is a curator and art historian, and a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He began his career in 1999 at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, where he worked as head of exhibitions and collections until 2005. After moving to Vienna, he worked in the curatorial department at TBA21 before joining the Kunsthistorisches Museum in 2011 as the first curator of modern and contemporary art in the museum’s history. Tasked with developing a new programme of exhibitions and public events, he curated more than twenty projects over the next ten years with artists including Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Susan Philipsz, Kerry James Marshall, Kathleen Ryan, Mark Rothko, Fiona Tan, Lucian Freud and Joseph Cornell. He also worked closely with Ed Ruscha, Edmund de Waal, Wes Anderson and Juman Malouf on groundbreaking presentations of the museum’s historical collections.

Sharp was curator and commissioner of the Austrian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 and produced the 35mm film Imitation of Life with artist Mathias Poledna, which was subsequently acquired by Tate Modern, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago for their permanent collections. On this occasion he was also the editor of the publication Austria and the Venice Biennale 1895–2013, the first complete illustrated history of Austria’s participation in the Venice Biennale. He was the founding curator of the talks programme at Frieze Masters, London, and has curated exhibitions and contributed catalogue texts for institutions including the Royal Academy, London; Fondazione Prada, Milan; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Kunstmuseum Basel; the National Gallery, London; the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, and many others.

Deputy Director & International Relations
margherita@phileas.art

Margherita Belcredi (born 1987) is an art historian and holds a BA in the History of Art from the University of Vienna, and an MFA Curating from Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has over a decade of experience in the commercial art world in London, Berlin and New York. While at White Cube, she focussed on the gallery’s External Projects and Commissions. During her time as Co-Director at Contemporary Fine Arts, she was responsible for sales and the exhibition programme.

Development & Public Engagement
dorothea@phileas.art

Dorothea Schellhorn (born 1980) is a historian who graduated from the University of Vienna and Sciences Po, Paris. Following her studies, she worked for the art office art:phalanx, where she conceived and produced art awards, exhibitions and projects as an art consultant for various companies. From 2007 to 2009, she worked as a PR manager for departure, the creative agency of the City of Vienna, and from 2009 to 2011 she was curatorial assistant to the director of the Belvedere. In 2012–13 she organized the curated by festival with contemporary art galleries in Vienna, and then spent three years working as a project manager for LABVERT architecture and design. From 2019 to 2022, she was responsible for fundraising and sponsorships at the Leopold Museum in Vienna.

Exhibition Programme
margarita@phileas.art

Margarita Thurn (born 1980) is an art historian and graduate of the University of Vienna. Following her studies, she worked as an assistant to the artist Erwin Wurm, and was employed as a staff member of the sculpture and multimedia class at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Subsequently, she worked for the art office art:phalanx, where she conceived and produced art awards, exhibitions and projects as an art consultant for various companies. From 2017 to 2022 she worked as a curatorial assistant at the Leopold Museum in Vienna.

Visitor Programme
anna@phileas.art

Anna Hugo (born 1991) holds an MA in critical theory and the arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York (2017), an MA in fine art from the University of Applied Arts Vienna (2013), and a diploma in fine art and design from Edinburgh College of Art (2011). She has experience working for the Independent Art Fair, New York; New Museum, New York; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York; Gladstone Gallery, New York; Kunstverein Gartenhaus, Vienna; and as a curator and consultant for international private art collections. She is an editor and contributing author to PW-Magazine.

Art Writing and Programme Coordinator
nell@phileas.art

Nell Hargrove (born 2000) is an art historian and holds a BA (Hons.) in German and History of Art from the University of Exeter, England. Following work experience in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, where she worked to restore historic buildings, she had a six-month internship at Phileas in 2023 and was able to gain experience in all aspects of the organization's activities. Her bachelor’s dissertation considered national representation and spatial enchantment at the 1873 Vienna World’s Fair. During her studies, she interned at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter.

Graduate trainee
flora@phileas.art

Flora Marie Schöntaube (born 1998) has a BA in Literature, Art and Media Studies from the University of Konstanz (2022) and is studying for a master’s degree in Art History at the University of Vienna. Prior to her studies, she completed a voluntary cultural year at the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen in Frankfurt am Main and a year at Trinity College Dublin on a scholarship. In Dublin, she focused on German Studies, Film Studies, and Art History. Schöntaube has gained extensive experience in publishing and project management and worked as a contributing author for Bohema Magazine in Vienna.