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Curator. Museum Director. Strategist for Cultural Transformation.

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Sophie-Charlotte Bombeck M.A. (*1991 in Bochum) lives and works in Munich and Augsburg. She is an internationally active curator, museum director, and strategist for cultural transformation. She is currently studying Art History and Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, writing her master’s thesis on the Louvre Abu Dhabi – with a focus on exhibition design and collection policy. Her projects span Germany, South Korea, China, Greece, Turkey, Austria, and Switzerland. She works at the intersection of contemporary art, social transformation, and institutional innovation – with a focus on memory culture, feminist perspectives, collective processes, and the potential of art in public space.

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As museum director and authorized officer (Prokuristin) of the WOW Museum Munich, she is responsible for both the artistic and operational leadership of an international team based in Munich and Zurich. Her responsibilities include HR, communications, budgeting, and fundraising, as well as the strategic development and institutional restructuring of the museum. Her leadership style is marked by clarity, collaboration, and a forward-thinking vision of museum practice. In parallel, she has worked internationally as an independent curator for over a decade. Her curatorial practice is shaped by long-term partnerships, interdisciplinary approaches, and institutional development.

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In 2025, she curates the exhibition “Memory in Transition – Artists in Exchange” as part of the Augsburg Peace Festival. The exhibition brings together artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Germany to reflect on artistic forms of memory, belonging, and visions of peace – 30 years after the Bosnian War.

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In 2024, she is responsible for initiating and curating the first German Pavilion at the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, in collaboration with PLATFORM Munich. In addition to negotiating and establishing the institutional framework, she developed the curatorial concept, selected the artists, wrote and produced the multi-voice audio guide, and represented the project on site. The pavilion combines artistic perspectives with curatorial reflection and sociopolitical discourse.

That same year, she co-curates the exhibition “FAILING SYSTEM – The End of Patriarchy” at Kunstverein Augsburg together with Janina Totzauer, Radmila Krstajić, and Magdalena Jooss – a multiperspective engagement with structural power, powerlessness, and feminist futures. She also supports the strategic development of the WOW Museum Munich during its formative phase.

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In 2023, she curates “Vehikel” during the Open Studios at PLATFORM Munich and also takes responsibility for the annual Open Day exhibition. She mentors volunteers and assists the executive management team in strategic preparations for the Biennale. Additionally, she curates a retrospective on the artist collective RHYTHM SECTION at Kunstverein Augsburg.

Also in 2023, she joins the team of the “Collective Space of Experience” on invitation from Dr. Isabel Zintl at the German Study Center in Venice, located on the terrace of Palazzo Barbarigo. Together with the Mangiare Collective and Katharina Voigt, she co-develops a sensuous, performative format exploring embodied knowledge, inner architecture, and collective cooking as epistemological practice.

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In 2022, she founds and leads the first edition of the Lindau Biennale, titled “in situ paradise”. She assumes full responsibility for its strategy, fundraising, curatorial programming, communications, and personnel – in close collaboration with local politics and administration. The Biennale brings international contemporary art into the public space around Lake Constance and is accompanied by an AR-based app, a publication, and a documentary short film by director Leonie Stade.

That same year, she leads the Public Art section of the Poolbar Festival in Feldkirch (Austria), developing site-specific artistic interventions in public space.

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From 2018 to 2025, she directs the independent art space super+Centercourt in Munich, which she has shaped programmatically and structurally – with over 60 exhibitions, performances, collaborations, and discursive formats. She is responsible for budgeting, public funding, communications, and an artist residency program between Munich and Gwangju (2018–2025), in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut and the Gwangju Museum of Art.

As an independent curator, she also realizes international exhibitions, including: Des Stijl and the Future at United Art Museum Wuhan and OCT Boxes Museum Shenzhen (China),
Ambiguous/Unambiguous at Platforms Project Athens (Greece),
painting vs. image at Karşı Sanat Istanbul (Turkey),
as well as numerous projects across the German-speaking region.

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Bombeck is also active as a moderator, lecturer, and editor. Her texts, panels, and collaborative formats address questions of responsibility, institutional critique, care, cultural transformation, and international artistic practice. As a cultural leader, she maintains an ongoing dialogue with political and administrative stakeholders and is engaged in network- and committee-based work on both local and international levels. Her curatorial practice is long-term, discursive, and interdisciplinary. Alongside her conceptual work, she develops sustainable structures and future-oriented formats – ranging from exhibitions and mediation to film, technology, and social engagement. She deliberately integrates digital tools and hybrid forms to create new pathways of experiencing art.

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Sophie-Charlotte Bombeck represents a new generation of cultural leadership – networked, collaborative, and future-driven.

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Selected Collaborations (Excerpt)
In her curatorial, strategic, and institutional work, Sophie-Charlotte Bombeck has collaborated with numerous renowned partners in the fields of art, academia, diplomacy, media, and cultural development – on both local and international levels.

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International Institutions & Networks
Gwangju Biennale (KR) · Gwangju Museum of Art (KR) · Seoul National University (KR) · Goethe-Institut · ifa – Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations · German Federal Foreign Office · Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands · XR HUB Bavaria · Humboldt Forum · The Artist and the Others · OFFICE IMPART

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Academies & Research Institutions
Academy of Fine Arts Munich · University of Television and Film Munich · Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich · Academy of Fine Arts Bologna (IT) · Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect (LMU Munich)

Art & Cultural Institutions
Karşı Sanat (Istanbul, TR) · Patty Morgan Showroom (Amsterdam, NL) · De Meldkamer (Maastricht, NL) · Atopos (Venice, IT) · Officina 15 (Castiglione di Pepoli, IT) · PLATFORM Munich · super+Centercourt (direction) · Kunstverein Augsburg · Akademieverein München · Villa Waldberta · Istituto Italiano di Cultura – Munich · German Study Center in Venice · KloHäuschen Biennale · GEDOK Munich · Zur Fischerin · Mangiare Collective · Alm Residency

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Festivals, Media & Project Contexts
Lindau Biennale · Poolbar Festival (AT) · SchöneFelder e.V. · Studio F / family & franz · Amuse & Amore podcast · · Mirna Funk · Steve Coleman

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Public & Municipal Partners
Department of Arts and Culture, City of Munich · Department of Culture, City of Lindau · City of Lindau · Theater Lindau · Steiner Foundation · Augsburg Peace Festival (Peace Office of the City of Augsburg)