Herwig Poeschl is founder and driving force of cultinstitute
20 years ago he founded the International Centre for Arts & Management (ICCM) and established one of the most prestigious MA / MBA programmes in international arts management. He developed also education programmes in film-scoring, curatorial studies and cultural urban design to explore new interfaces between to the arts. With ICCM's Salzburg Summer Academy he built up the most well-known professional training programme for Eastern and South-Eastern Europe as well as Central Asia. His large teaching experience includes a position as Guest professor at the Academy for Applied Arts And Design Budapest (Hungary) from 1995 to 1999.
He left ICCM when the new shareholders of ICCM were definitely not interested in his future plans of a change of paradigm for ICCM.
Up to now he worked in academic education and professional trainings with about thousand young professionals in sixty countries worldwide.
Between 1997 and 2001 he was president of the European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres (ENCATC) http://www.encatc.org/pages/index.php. He is founding member of Fondazione Fitzcarraldo in Torino, Italy, http://www.fitzcarraldo.it/, which is to date one of his professional homes and member at the editorial board of the International Journal of Arts Management, Toronto, Canada. http://www.gestiondesarts.com/index.php?id=724
Beside his teaching and managing activities he is working as a consultant for cultural projects. Among others he consulted Forum Stadtpark/Graz, Festival der Regionen/Oberösterreich, Museum der Wahrnehmung/Graz, OK Offenes Kulturhaus/Linz, the Austrian Ministry for Education, Culture and Arts, UNESCO and Council of Europe etc.
He does comprehensive research on creativity and ethics and values of arts management.
Before establishing ICCM as a leading cultural project & research institute he designed and implemented the Cultural Development Plan for the City of Salzburg from 1986 to 1990. In 1979 he founded a centre for cultural studies ( Institut für Alltagskultur )and realised many projects in cultural and economic development unti 1985. By order of the Federal Chancellery he was responsible for the regional cultural planning and community action in the industrial and mining areas Eisenerz and Mühlbach / Hochkönig. Since that time one of his passions is the culture of miners, which is also rooted in the history of his paternal family.
He attendet psychology and psychoanalysis with Igor Caruso at the Paris Lodron University in Salzburg and music analysis and composition at the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt and Cologne Courses for New Music with Mauricio Kagel and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He started his career in the arts as composer and percussionist for the New Music Ensemble "Schallmomente" after touring with various free jazz groups.