{"id":3495,"date":"2016-03-10T10:34:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T15:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2017-04-06T05:16:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T09:16:24","slug":"peter-pakesch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/peter-pakesch\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Pakesch"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7322\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3495-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/peterpakesch.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/peterpakesch.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/peterpakesch.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3499 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_2605.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"IMG_2605\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_2605.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_2605.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_2605.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_2605.jpg?resize=624%2C936&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_2605.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_2605.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Peter Pakesch (July 16, 1955 in Graz, Styria) began studying architecture, but also was active early on as an artist. His first experiences as an exhibition curator were gathered in the Forum\u00a0Stadtpark\u00a0in Vienna from 1976 to 1979 and at the\u00a0<i>steirischerherbst<\/i>. Time spent studying in New York in 1980 yielded important encounters and involvement in activities around Fashion\u00a0Moda\u00a0and the Times Square Show. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After his return to Austria, Pakesch opened his own gallery in Vienna in 1981, in which he presented first exhibitions with the likes of artists such as John\u00a0Baldessari, Herbert\u00a0Brandl,\u00a0IlyaKabakow, Mike Kelley, Martin\u00a0Kippenberger, Sol\u00a0LeWitt, Albert\u00a0Oehlen, Franz West and Heimo\u00a0Zobernig. In 1986 he founded the Graz\u00a0Kunstverein\u00a0together with the Graz-based cultural policy maker Helmut\u00a0Strobl, running it as artistic director up to 1988. As part of this activity he published the inter-disciplinary magazine\u00a0<i>Durch<\/i>. Together with Hubert\u00a0Klocker, he organised the project\u00a0<i>Protect Me\u00a0From\u00a0What I Want<\/i>, a collaboration with Jenny Holzer and Keith Haring. In 1990, jointly with Johannes\u00a0Schlebr\u00fcgge, he founded the magazine\u00a0<i>Fama\u00a0&amp; Fortune Bulletin,\u00a0<\/i>which appears at irregular intervals.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In 1993 Pakesch closed his gallery in Vienna. In his 12 years as a gallery owner, he succeeded in bringing to international prominence such Austrian artists as Herbert\u00a0Brandl, Franz West and Heimo\u00a0Zobernig. In the years that followed he worked as a freelance curator for the National Gallery in Prague, and in 1996 he assumed the post of Director of the\u00a0Kunsthalle\u00a0Basel. There he showed first museum exhibitions by young artists such as\u00a0OlafurEliasson, Michel\u00a0Majerus\u00a0or\u00a0Pawel\u00a0Althamer, pushed forward the restoration of the historical building and reorganised the local annual exhibition into a format called \u2018Regionale\u2019 that still presents an important, major exhibition located between Mulhouse,\u00a0Freibug\u00a0and Basel. From 1996 to 1998 he travelled to the post-Communist countries as a member of the\u00a0<i>Soros International Advisory Board<\/i>. In 1997 he married the actress and film producer Michaela\u00a0Leutzendorff, and in 1998 his daughter Josepha was born.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Since 2003 Pakesch has been Intendant and Artistic Director of the Universalmuseum Joanneum. From the very outset, one central task in this function was the fundamental renewal of the individual locations of this, the oldest public museum in Austria \u2013 above all, the creation of the Joanneum Quarter, opened in 2011 to mark the 200<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0jubilee of the founding of the Joanneum. Pakesch has also been responsible for various\u00a0groundbreakingexhibitions at the Kunsthaus Graz, which was opened in 2003 and which likewise belongs to the group of institutions gathered under the Universalmuseum Joanneum. Examples of exhibitions for the Kunsthaus include the twin-show<i>\u00a0Warhol Wool Newman \u2013 Painting Real<\/i>\u00a0und\u00a0<i>Screening Real \u2013 Conner Lockhart Warhol<\/i>(2009), and the exhibition\u00a0<i>Franz West<\/i>:\u00a0<i>Autotheater, K\u00f6ln \u2013\u00a0Neapel\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Graz,\u00a0<\/i>which he curated in 2010 together with Kasper K\u00f6nig, Katia\u00a0Baudin\u00a0(Museum Ludwig K\u00f6ln) and Mario\u00a0Codognato\u00a0(MADRE\u00a0Neapel) and which he was able to realise in Graz, not least of all due to his long friendship with Franz West. His close contacts with national and international great figures of art enabled him to show exhibitions in Graz with works by Ai\u00a0Weiwei\u00a0(2011, Kunsthaus Graz), Michelangelo\u00a0Pistoletto\u00a0(2012,\u00a0Neue\u00a0Galerie Graz), Heimo\u00a0Zobernig\u00a0(2013, Kunsthaus Graz),\u00a0Ilya\u00a0and Emilia\u00a0Kabakov\u00a0(2014, Kunsthaus Graz), as well as the first solo exhibition of the American film-maker James\u00a0Benning(2014, Kunsthaus Graz).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Peter\u00a0Paksech\u00a0also cultivated close contacts with the Austrian painter Maria\u00a0Lassnig\u00a0until her death in May 2014. The last great\u00a0Lassnig\u00a0solo show during her lifetime was staged in the\u00a0NeueGalerie Graz in 2012 under the auspices of Peter Pakesch and curated by\u00a0G\u00fcnther Holler-Schuster. With this event also began the creation of a catalogue of works by Maria\u00a0Lassnig.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Fall 2015 Peter Pakesch finished his work on the lead of the Universalmuseum Joanneum to devote his full time in building up the Maria Lassnig Foundation in Vienna. This foundation was founded at the will of the artist in order to advance the understanding and the distribution of her work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For the Universalmuseum Joanneum he is still responsible for two shows: Terry Winters, The Painter&#8217;s Cabinet and Kneaded Knowledge &#8211;\u00a0The Language of Ceramics with Ai Weiwei and Edmund de Waal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Learn more about the following exhibtions through these links &#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schlebruegge.com\/en\/buchkategorien\/fama-fortune-bulletin\" target=\"_blank\">Fama Fortune Bulletin<\/a>: <\/span><span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.museum-joanneum.at\/\" target=\"_blank\">Universalmuseum Joanneum<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kunsthausgraz.at\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kunsthaus Graz<\/a>:,<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.museum-joanneum.at\/en\/kunsthaus-graz\/exhibitions\/exhibitions\/events\/event\/26.09.2009-10.01.2010\/warhol-wool-newman\" target=\"_blank\">Warhol-Wool-Newman<\/a>:<\/span> <span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.museum-joanneum.at\/en\/kunsthaus-graz\/exhibitions\/exhibitions\/events\/event\/26.09.2009-10.01.2010\/screening-real\" target=\"_blank\">Screening Real<\/a>:,<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.museum-joanneum.at\/en\/kunsthaus-graz\/exhibitions\/exhibitions\/events\/event\/25.09.2010-09.01.2011\/franz-west-1\" target=\"_blank\">Franz West: Autotheater, K\u00f6ln \u2013 Neapel \u2013 Graz<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.museum-joanneum.at\/en\/kunsthaus-graz\/exhibitions\/exhibitions\/events\/event\/29.09.2012-20.01.2013\/cittadellarte-3\" target=\"_blank\">Cittadellarte<\/a>:,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neuegaleriegraz.at\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neue Galerie Graz<\/a>:,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.museum-joanneum.at\/en\/kunsthaus-graz\/exhibitions\/exhibitions\/events\/event\/17.09.2011-05.02.2012\/ai-weiwei-1\" target=\"_blank\">Ai Weiwei<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.museum-joanneum.at\/en\/kunsthaus-graz\/exhibitions\/exhibitions\/events\/event\/07.06.-01.09.2013\/heimo-zobernig-2\" target=\"_blank\">Heimo Zobernig<\/a>:,<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.museum-joanneum.at\/en\/neue-galerie-graz\/exhibitions\/exhibitions\/events\/event\/02.06.-14.10.2012\/michelangelo-pistoletto-2\" target=\"_blank\">Michelangelo Pistoletto<\/a>: <\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.museum-joanneum.at\/en\/neue-galerie-graz\/exhibitions\/exhibitions\/events\/event\/17.11.2012-28.04.2013\/maria-lassnig-2\" target=\"_blank\">Maria Lassnig<\/a>: <\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.museum-joanneum.at\/en\/kunsthaus-graz\/exhibitions\/exhibitions\/events\/event\/07.02.-11.05.2014\/el-lissitzky-ilya-und-emilia-kabakov-2\" target=\"_blank\">Ilya and Emilia Kabakov<\/a>:,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.museum-joanneum.at\/en\/kunsthaus-graz\/exhibitions\/exhibitions\/events\/event\/07.03.-01.06.2014\/james-benning-2\" target=\"_blank\">James Benning<\/a>:,<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.museum-joanneum.at\/en\/kunsthaus-graz\/exhibitions\/exhibitions\/events\/event\/11.03.-21.08.2016\/das-kabinett-des-malers-1\" target=\"_blank\">Terry Winters, The Painter\u2019s Cabinet<\/a>: \u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.museum-joanneum.at\/en\/kunsthaus-graz\/exhibitions\/exhibitions\/events\/event\/24.09.2016-19.02.2017\/geknetetes-wissen-1\" target=\"_blank\">Kneaded Knowledge \u2013 The Language of Ceramics<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3500\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3500\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3500 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/a_DSC3678.jpg?resize=625%2C416&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"a_DSC3678\" width=\"625\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/a_DSC3678.jpg?resize=1024%2C681&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/a_DSC3678.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/a_DSC3678.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/a_DSC3678.jpg?resize=624%2C415&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/a_DSC3678.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/a_DSC3678.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cCittadellarte. Sharing Transformation\u201d, 2012 Kunsthaus Graz, Photo: N. Lackner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3501\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3501\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3501 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/TerryWinters-Kunsthaus-01.jpg?resize=625%2C416&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"TerryWinters-Kunsthaus-01\" width=\"625\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/TerryWinters-Kunsthaus-01.jpg?resize=1024%2C681&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/TerryWinters-Kunsthaus-01.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/TerryWinters-Kunsthaus-01.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/TerryWinters-Kunsthaus-01.jpg?resize=624%2C415&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/TerryWinters-Kunsthaus-01.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/TerryWinters-Kunsthaus-01.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThe Painter&#8217;s Cabinet. Terry Winters\u2019 Dialogue with Nature\u201d, (runs until August, 21) Photo: N. Lackner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/peterpakesch.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listPeter Pakesch (July 16, 1955 in Graz, Styria) began studying architecture, but also was active early on as an artist. His first experiences as an exhibition curator were gathered in the Forum\u00a0Stadtpark\u00a0in Vienna from 1976 to 1979 and at the\u00a0steirischerherbst. 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