As part of the cooperation with Wien Modern, a public conversation between Bernhard Leitner and Stefan Kraus, art historian and former director of the KOLUMBA in Cologne, takes place on Thursday, 19 November at 18:00 in the exhibition SOUNDSPACESCULPTURE.
Bernhard Leitner was born in 1938 in Feldkirch, Austria, and lives and works in Vienna and Gaindorf, Austria. The artist, university professor and author is one of the defining figures of international sound art. After studying architecture at the Vienna University of Technology, he worked in the Paris studios AUA (Atelier d'urbanisme et d'architecture) and Paul Bossard from 1963 to 1966. From 1969 to 1971 he was an urban designer in the Department of City Planning of the City of New York, before being appointed in 1972 as Associate Professor and Co-Director of the study programme Urban Design – Humanistic Perspectives at New York University. In 1969 he began his sound-space investigations.