Silke Birte Geppert

Silke Geppert began her training as a bookseller in a publishing house. In London she ran an art book publishing company and curated exhibitions. She studied fashion and art history in Vienna and received her doctorate in 2011 on fashion of the 15th century. From 2000 to 2004 she was director of the Museum Schloss Ahrensburg. Since 2017 she has been curator for fashion and custodian for textiles and carpets at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna.

From 2014 to 2017 she worked as a research assistant in the "Fashion Textile Design" department at the University of Paderborn. She was a lecturer in fashion theory and fashion history at the Pforzheim University of Design, a lecturer in vestmental art history at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz and the University of Salzburg, and a research assistant at the Salzburg Cathedral Museum. She has researched and published on subjects such as fashion and stage costume, fashion and film, fashion and religion, as well as Burgundian fashion, textile history and contemporary art and fashion. She organizes courses and workshops on the subject of fashion polemics, fashion and traditional costume, fashion and the Salzburg Festival, fashion and temporality, and fashion and religion.