Members: Edelbert Köb im Gespräch mit Thomas Mießgang

Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the former Secession president Edelbert Köb and Dr. Thomas Mießgang. It was recorded on December 2, 2022.

If you want to know more about Edelbert Köb, his presidency at the Secession and his stories on matters such as the renovation of the Secession with the architect Adolf Krischanitz or the founding of the Friends of the Secession with the president of the Friends Sylvia Liska, listen to this episode.

Edelbert Köb (b. 1942 in Bregenz) lives and works in Vienna. He is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the University of Vienna. From 1966 onwards, he devoted himself mainly to sculpture, but ended his artistic activity in 1992. From 1973 to 2002, he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and its vice-chancellor from 1985 to 1995 and 1998 to 2000. From 1982 to 1991 he was president of the Secession and from 1990 to 2000 founding director of the Kunsthaus Bregenz. Between 2002 and 2010 he was director of the Museum of Modern Art (MUMOK). Beyond that, Köb was an active editor, author and member of numerous juries and councils.

Dr. Thomas Mießgang is a journalist, cultural publicist and independent curator. He has worked for magazines such as Falter, profil as well as Die ZEIT and is at present primarily active as part of the radio programme by Ö1 (Diagonal, Radiokolleg). Recent exhibition projects were „Ganz Wien. Eine Pop-Tour“ (2017) at the Wien Museum and „Griaß eich die Madln, servas die Buam! Das Phänomen Heinz Conrads“ (2021/22) at the Wienbibliothek im Rathaus. In the 1980s, Mießgang played in the band of the recently deceased media artist and theorist Peter Weibel.

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Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. Eberhard

Editing Director & Editor: Christian Lübbert

Programmed by the board of the Secession
Produced by Christian Lübbert