Christoph Thun-Hohenstein is cultural manager, curator, and author. He studied law, political science, and history of art in Vienna. He was Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York from 1999 to 2007. From 2022 to 2025, he was Director General for International Cultural Relations at the Austrian Foreign Ministry.
From 2007 to 2011, he served as Managing Director of departure, the Creative Agency of the City of Vienna. From 2011 to 2021, Thun-Hohenstein was General Director and Artistic Director of the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna. He initiated the Vienna Biennale for Change, which he directed from 2014 until 2022. He also initiated the Vienna Climate Biennale.
Thun-Hohenstein’s current work focuses on the dignity of nature and of intelligent “machine beings”, and on holistic regeneration and regenerative arts at the dawn of artificial superintelligence.