PETER NOEVER

1986 to 2011 CEO and Artistic Director of MAK Vienna/Los Angeles. Founder of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles (with three houses by Rudolf M. Schindler), 1994 with the Schindler Artists and Architects in Residence program. In 2010, Noever initiated the MAK UFI – Urban Future Initiative ( “Urban Future. Manifestos,” edited by Peter Noever, Kimberli Meyer, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2010), Los Angeles. 2000 Development of the CAT – Contemporary Art Tower project in Vienna (with artistic interventions by Jenny Holzer and James Turrell). “A radically new programmatic strategy that meets the complex requirements of today’s artistic productions.” In 2006, he founded the Josef Hoffmann Museum, Brtnice, Czech Republic, a branch of the Moravian Gallery in Brno and the MAK. Immediately after his resignation after 25 years as director of the MAK, Eric Owen Moss (director of SCI-Arc) organized the exhibition “The (Secret) Return of … (NO EVER)” at the ACE Museum/Gallery, Los Angeles, together with Douglas Chrismas, Frank O. Gehry, Greg Lynn, Jeffrey Kipnis, Thom Mayne, and Wolf Prix.

In 2000, Noever joined the Franz West Archive at the personal invitation of Franz West, and has been a member of its board since 2012. From 2001 to 2012, he was a member of the board of the Günther Domenig Private Foundation, and its chairman in 2005/2006. In 2016, Peter Noever was nominated as a candidate for the position of Dean of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture in California. Noever has curated over 350 exhibitions, including in Vienna, Los Angeles, Venice, New York, Moscow, Tokyo, Berlin, Prague, Brtnice, Budapest, Shenzhen, St. Petersburg, and Havana. In 2014, he received the Golden Lion at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale for the exhibition “Crow's Eye View: The Korean Peninsula.” Noever was a member of the curatorial team for the South Korean Pavilion. 
He has given guest lectures at leading art and architecture institutions worldwide. 
Peter Noever initiated the transformation of the Austrian museum landscape into modern scenarios through his interpretation of the MAK. At the same time, he opened the MAK in Vienna and Los Angeles to architecture and experimental design. Noever actively participates in art debates and deals intensively with issues of urban planning. Noever's self-assessment: “Chronically obsessive.”

Awards (Selection)
2015 Georg Heindl Culture Award
2010 Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the Province of Vienna
1997 Austrian Decoration of Honour for Science and Art
1996 Museum of the Year Award of the Council of Europe (for the MAK)
1991 PAN-Preis Frankfurt/ Bester Ausstellungsmacher (PAN-Prize / Best curator)

Exhibitions, projects (Selection)
2024 PEACE NOW!, Trinkhalle Bad Ischl, European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024
2024 PEACE light, Hofkirche / Volkskunstmuseum Innsbruck
2023 “Die Waffen nieder!”, Zenita Komad, artist intervention in “Die Grube / The Pit”
2022 out of the blue, Galerie Raumburgenland Contemporary
2019 “Die Grube” (The Pit) was placed under monument protection. The Land Art project in Breitenbrunn on Lake Neusiedl, which has existed since the early 1970s, is continuously being further developed
2019 Bombay Beach Biennale 2019. Bombay, California
2019 “Obessions In_Focus. Confrontations, Experiences, and Glowing Friendships”, manifestos and video portraits of Raimund Abraham, Vito Acconci, Günther Domenig, Zaha Hadid, Magdalena Jetelová, Eric Owen Moss, Walter Pichler, Wolf D. Prix, Bernard Rudofsky, James Turrell, Franz West, and Lebbeus Woods. SCI-Arc, Los Angeles
2018 Vadim Kosmatschof “Sculpture”. The New Tretyakov Gallery, Moskau with Kirill Svetlyakov and Anna Mapolis
Since 2018 exhibition “declared_”. Peter Noever/Andrea Lenardin, first presented in the Galerie Rauminhalt, Vienna; toured through varies cities and was also shown at NYCxDesign, New York
2017 Light sculpture “Fountain” by Brigitte Kowanz, a new landmark for St. Pölten. Noever has placed over 20 sculptures in public spaces in Vienna, Los Angeles, and Venice. Among others: Zaha Hadid, “Trompe l'Oeil” in Prince Eugene's Winter Palace (City Palace) in the Belvedere, Vienna.
2014–2016 Development of the archive with accompanying exhibitions “Vienna for Art's Sake!” (Archive Austria) and “Germany, mon amour!” (Archive Germany) for Luciano Benetton‘s collection “imago mundi”
2012/2013 Organization of the symposium “never again resistance?” and „Expression“ in collaboration with Mark Mack/UCLA. SteinHaus (Günther Domenig, 1982 to 2008), Carinthia
2011 4th Guangzhou Triennial. Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
2011 54. Venice Biennale. Curator of the exhibition “Koen Vanmechelen, Nato a Venezia/Open University of Diversity” at Palazzo Loredan; presentation of “glasstress” – site-specific work by Erwin Wurm (Narrow House), Kendell Geers, Zaha Hadid, Magdalena Jetelová, Michael Kienzer, Koen Vanmechelen and Kiki Smith at Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti
2010 “Blumen für Kim Il Sung” (Flowers for Kim Il Sung). First comprehensive presentation on the art and architecture of North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) outside the country
1995/96 “The Havana Project” – international conference on architecture in Havanna/Kuba. Participants: Lebbeus Woods, Eric Owen Moss, Thom Mayne, C.P.P.N., Wolf D. Prix, Carme Pinós.

Bibliography (Selection)
2024 Noever, Peter: Peace Now!
2023 Noever, Peter & Haslinger, Regina: live art. prevent war.
2022 Noever, Peter: out of the blue; Schlebrügge.Editor
2021 Noever, Peter & Lenardin, Andrea: Wait a minute; Schlebrügge.Editor
2019 Noever, Peter: Obsessions In_Focus: Confrontations, Confessions and Glowing Friendships. Los Angeles: SCI-Arc
2016 Noever, Peter (publisher): Germany, mon amour! - contemporary in Germany - art, architecture, design. Crocetta del Montello (Treviso): Antiga Edizioni
2012 Noever, Peter (publisher): design now what if …?, Vienna: no/ever art edition
2010 Noever, Peter: Urban Future. Manifestos; Hatje Cantz Verlag
2010 Noever, Peter & dPrix, Wolf: In the abscence of Raimund Abraham; Vienna Architecture Conference 2010
2008 Ramin Schor, Gabriel (publisher); Peter Noever. Chronisch. Obsessiv. Die Gegenwart muss erst erkämpft werden. Schriften und Interviews (Chronic. Obsessive. The present must first be fought for. Writings and interviews). Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst
2004 Noever, Peter (publisher): Referenzen an das Unbestimmte – Die Kunst. Die Künstler. Das Kunstmuseum (References to the Indefinite – Art. Artists. The Art Museum). Vienna: MAK
2003 Noever, Peter: Architectural Resistance; MAK Center for Art and Architecture Los Angeles; Hatje Cantz Verlag
2003 Noever, Peter (publisher): Architectural Resistance. Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag
2001 Noever, Peter (publisher): Museen ohne Zukunft – Künstlerpositionen (Museums without a future – artist positions). Vienna: MAK
1995/1996 Noever, Peter (publisher): The Havana Project. Catalogue accompanying the conference in Havanna with a preface by Fidel Castro.
1994 Noever, Peter: Ein Stein für die Kunst: Das MAK-Terrassenplateau; Hatje Cantz Verlag
1988 Kunst und Revolution / Art and Revolution. Russische und sowjetische Kunst 1910-1932 (Russian and Soviet Art). Published by the Ministry for Culture of the USSR (first presentation of constructivist art outside the country) 
1982-1994, Founder an editor-in-chief Noever, Peter: UMRISS

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