Paalen Life and Work

Andreas Neufert

Andreas Neufert, born in 1961, studied art history, philosophy and Byzantine studies in Munich, Vienna and Paris. He received his PhD in Aesthetics and Art Mediation in 1997 and has since published regularly on modern and contemporary art. In 1993 and 1994 he organized the Paalen retrospective at the Museum Moderner Kunst in Vienna and the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Carrillo Gil in Mexico City (as co-curator). In 2019 he curated the exhibition Wolfgang Paalen - The Austrian Surrealist in Paris and Mexico at the Belvedere, Vienna. He lives in Berlin and Montesardo (Puglia)