Sandra Kobel is an art historian, educational curator and cultural mediator. From 2017 to 2024, she headed the cultural mediation department at the Salzburg Museum and curated a large number of inclusive and interactive exhibitions and mediation spaces. She is particularly interested in the field of community outreach, in the conception of sustainable and participation-oriented mediation strategies and in reflecting on the profession of cultural mediation. She has been on the board of the Austrian Association of Cultural Mediators since 2016.
Sandra Kobel studied art history at the University of Salzburg, was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation and worked at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg and the Salzburg Baroque Museum, among others. From 2017 to June 2024, she headed the Department of Cultural Education at the Salzburg Museum and was thus responsible for the development of the overall strategy of cultural education for the various houses of the Salzburg Museum (Neue Residenz, Panorama Museum, Folklore Museum, Fortress Museum, Cathedral Excavation Museum).
Since 2016, she has been active on the board of the Austrian Association of Cultural Mediators in Museums and Exhibitions. She was also a board member of arbeitskreis neu - Plattform für Kulturvermittlung Salzburg from 2018 to 2024. From 2019 to 2023, she was part of the interdisciplinary research project ‘Spaces of Cultural Democracy’ (inter-university institution Science & Art; Paris Lodron University Salzburg and Mozarteum University Salzburg in cooperation with the Salzburg Museum).
As a cultural mediator, she carries out mediation formats for children, young people and adults, develops interactive exhibitions, mediation formats and projects as well as further education programmes for multipliers, students and cultural mediators.
Since October 2024, she has been working on the project ‘Co-CreART. Co-Creating Change!’ project at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.