Women within institutions

Tulga Beyerle (b. 1964, Vienna) has been director of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG) since 1 December 2018. In keeping with the goal of museums of applied and decorative arts everywhere to provide inspiration for the best in design both in the present and future, Beyerle strives to position MKG as a place of myriad possibilities and a platform for discourse and negotiation at the highest level and yet without excluding any members of society. 

Lilli Hollein is the newly appointed general director of the MAK-Museum of Applied Arts Vienna. She was until May 2021 director and one of three co-founders of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Austria's largest design festival. She completed her industrial design studies at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

Alexandra Cunningham Cameron is a writer, curator and critical thinker on contemporary design. She currently sits as curator of contemporary design and Hintz Secretarial Scholar at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. 

Tony Chambers is a Creative Director, Design Consultant and Editor. He is the founder of creative agency TC & Friends and co-founder, with artist Ryan Gander, of OTOMOTO – the design, art and ideas platform.