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Mounting and Re-framing a Large-Scale Work on Paper by Bruno Gironcoli Reusing the Original Frame

• Karin Steiner

  Karin Steiner studied paper conservation at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. For her final thesis 2006–2007 she decided to choose an additional specialization in conservation of modern and contemporary art. Since then she has been working as a conservator in both fields for different collections and museums in Vienna and Lower Austria: the Austrian National Library, Vienna; the Austrian Theatre Museum, Vienna; the Art Collection of Lower Austria, St. Pölten and the Albertina, Vienna. Since 2009 she is part of the teaching staff at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna at the Department for Conservation-Restauration of Modern and Contemporary Art. Since 2014 she works part-time as paper conservator at the Albertina, Vienna.

  and Gerda Kaltenbruner

  Gerda Kaltenbruner has been professor of Modern and Contemporary Arts Conservation at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna since 2005. From 1988 to 2004 she was head of conservation at the Kunstmuseum Bonn. Prior to that she served as conservator for different collections in the Rhineland, specializing in both contemporary art conservation and early medieval polychrome sculpture. Between 1974 and 1980 she was conservator at the office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments, North Rhine-Westphalia and researched with the VW-Foundation on nineteenth century church interiors. She received her M.A. in Conservation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and further trained at the Courtauld Institute London, the IRPA, Brussels and the SIK, Zurich. Her research interests are in the field of conservation strategies for ephemeral art forms and multimedia installations and focus on ethical issues in the preservation of contemporary art.