Peter Noever
Peter Noever is an Austrian designer and curator-at-large of art, architecture and media. From 1986 to 2011, he was the artistic director and chief executive officer of the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts and Contemporary Art in Vienna.
Career
In 1971, Peter and Katarina Noever co-founded a concept store in Vienna, called "Section N". The building was designed by Hans Hollein. From 1975 to 1993, Noever worked as a lecturer of design analysis at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Starting in the early 1990s, Noever was the editor-in=chief of the architecture magazine titled UMRISS.Between 1986 and 2011, Noever was the CEO and artistic director of the Austrian Museum for Applied Arts/Contemporary Art, Vienna. In 1994, Noever acquired and renovated the Schindler House in West Hollywood. There he founded the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, which hosts artists in residence and serves as a gallery space. The activities of the MAK Center in Los Angeles take place at three locations, all buildings designed by the Austrian-American architect Rudolph M. Schindler.
As a curator and exhibition designer, Noever has organized over 300 exhibitions, in Berlin, Budapest, Havana, Los Angeles, Moscow, New York, Prague, Shenzhen, St. Petersburg, Venice, Vienna, Tokyo, and other international cities.
Art works
Noever designed the land art project, The Pit located on Lake Neusiedl in Breitenbrunn am Neusiedlersee, Austria. The work was built in the early 1970s; in 2019 the Austrian Federal Office BDA placed it under monument protection.In 1994, Noever had a one person show at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, titled Upstairs Down: The Pit, The Tower, The Terrace Plateau by Peter Noever.