Bernadette Reinhold has been director of the Oskar Kokoschka Center and Senior Scientist at Collection and Archive, University of Applied Arts Vienna, since 2008. She studied art history, history, and philosophy at the University of Vienna.
Researcher at the Federal Monuments Authority Austria, the Commission for Provenance Research, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (FWF project on the Vienna
Hofburg). Board member of the Austrian Society for Architecture (ÖGfA) and the Oskar Kokoschka Documentation Pöchlarn.
Publications, research projects, exhibitions, and teaching activities on architectural history, modern art, Austrian cultural policy, gender studies, and biographical research.
Recent books.- “Sonderfall” Angewandte: Die Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien im Austrofaschismus, Nationalsozialismus und in der Nachkriegszeit,she co-authored Finding Ella Briggs: The Life and Work of an Unconventional Architect (2025).
