Hildegard Fraueneder

Senior Lecturer in Art History / First Vice-Chair of the Senate⋅Department of Fine Arts & Design⋅Institute for Open Arts

Hildegard Fraueneder is an art historian, curator and cultural organiser whose work explores post-war art and culture, public space, gender and visual representation. Through her research, teaching and curatorial practice, she has played a significant role in shaping artistic and scholarly discourse in Salzburg and beyond.

Hildegard Fraueneder studied art history, history and philosophy in Salzburg and Vienna. Her research focuses on post-war Austria, housing and everyday life after 1945, as well as questions of femininity and heroism within the interdisciplinary field of gender and visual culture. She has led the research group Art and Public Spheres and contributed to numerous gender studies lecture series at the University of Salzburg.

Since 1995, she has taught art and cultural studies at Mozarteum University Salzburg. She has also held teaching appointments in art history at the University of Salzburg, in MultiMediaArt at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, and at the University of Art and Design Linz. From 2001 to 2016, she directed Gallery 5020, and since 2017 has chaired the Advisory Board for Art in Buildings and Art in Public Spaces of the Province of Salzburg. She is also Programme Area Director of Figurations of Transition at the Cooperation Centre for Art & Academia (Wissenschaft & Kunst).

Fraueneder has conceived and directed numerous congresses, symposia, conferences and lecture series, and regularly lectures internationally. She is a member of the Senate Working Group at the University of Salzburg, serves as Equal Opportunities Officer, sits on several curriculum and appointment committees, and has been Deputy Head of the Senate at Mozarteum University Salzburg since 2019.

dating.21 – discourses on love and forms of dating, Bielefeld: transcript 2007 Amadeus is upside down. Art and Public, Salzburg 2007 (urban potentials). concepts and actions. Rotterdam, Salzburg, Wroclaw, Budapest, Dresden, Berlin: Jovis 2007 What to do. Figures of protest - tactics of resistance, Salzburg: Müry Salzmann Verlag 2010 Before and after - Ruedi Arnold. Texts about making pictures, Weitra: Verlag der Provinz, 2013 Essays in anthologies, exhibition catalogs and magazines (selection) How the word brings movement with bodies in connection, in: VALIE EXPORT. a work show, ed. from the Edition Essl Collection 2005 Silent old places? Stages and Scenes in Salzburg's Old Town, and The Denied Autonomy. Festival or the dance of the arts in: Art in Salzburg, Salzburg: Pustet Verlag 2008, pp. 14-39, 126-147 What is given. Aesthetic actions as new configurations of the sensual, in: Cornelius Kolig, exhibition catalogue, ed. from the Edition Collection Essl 2009 Discarded? Notes on dealing with works of art from the time of National Socialism in the city of Salzburg, in: italics - yearbook 2011, pp. 62-73, revised: What can art do?, in: Josef Thorak. An artistic re-vision by Bernhard Gwiggner, Vienna: Edition Tandem 2016, pp. 63-80. Female artists in Salzburg: From the tolerated exception to a new self-understanding, in: Women in Salzburg. Between exclusion and participation, ed. by Christa Gürtler and Sabine Veits-Falk, publication series of the Salzburg City Archives 34, Salzburg 2012, pp. 76-105. Flashy outfits, extravagant poses, in: Dress Questions. Fashion and cultural studies, ed. by Christa Gürtler and Eva Hausbacher, Bielefeld: transcript 2015, pp. 157–176. Feminism as a challenge? Artists in Salzburg, in: Tell me about Salzburg. Companion volume to the Salzburg State Exhibition, annual publication of the Salzburg Museum, vol. 58/2, 2016, pp. 225-231. REMAKE Romanzo Criminale, in: Re-en-act. Annja Krautgasser, Vienna: ABO Verlag 2017 Lying, sitting, standing - erotic sensuality in the park, and: Un/desired works of art, controversial locations and opaque/transparent influence - conflicts over free sculptures, in: Salzburg - art in urban space 1945 to 1975 .A handbook, ed. by Gabi Wagner, publication of the Salzburg Museum, 2019, pp. 68 - 95.