The museum shows art from the 20th and 21st centuries
The exhibition program of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg 2023 offers a total of twelve new presentations that deal with a wide variety of topics and present a wide variety of artistic media and practices. In the context of the museum’s strategy, it is no coincidence that these are mainly exhibitions with works by female artists. The artistic production of women is given high priority in terms of equal rights and the conscious visualization of female and queer positions and topics.
Gunda Gruber The geometry of non-orders February 25 – June 4, 2023 // Rupertinum
The artist Gunda Gruber (1971 Salzburg, AT – Salzburg, AT) has been working at the interface of video, photography, graphics and architecture for many years. Numerous groups of works consist of multi-layered elements and multimedia installations that challenge the perception of space and time and make ruptures and uncertainties as well as the artistic work process tangible. In Gruber’s oeuvre, levels of reality overlap, the physical space is expanded by the cinematic, and social structures borrowed from nature are questioned. The focus is on the dialogue: that of the artist with the material, that of the forms and layers within a work, and finally the dialogue of the works with the viewer.
mask and face Inge Morath und Saul Steinberg February 25 – June 4, 2023 // Rupertinum
On the occasion of the 100th birthday of the Austrian photographer Inge Morath (1923 Graz, AT – 2002 New York, NY, US), the exhibition presents vintage prints from the “Masks” series. This group of works was created in collaboration with the draftsman Saul Steinberg (1914 Râmnicu Sărat, RO – 1999 New York, NY, US), whom Morath first visited and portrayed in 1959. At this encounter, Steinberg wore a paper mask with a pre-recorded self-portrait. In the exhibition, some of the original masks, which the Museum der Moderne Salzburg received as a gift, can be seen for the first time together with the photographs by Morath, which were taken between 1959 and 1962. This artistic collaboration between Morath and Steinberg is considered one of the most interesting between a draftsman and a photographer; it also marked the beginning of a long-lasting friendship. Steinberg, best known for his cartoons and covers for the American magazine The New Yorker, created other very different characters on paper bags, which became famous through Morath’s photographs.
Queerfem magaZINES Queer and feminist publishing in art and culture February 25 – June 4, 2023 // Rupertinum
The exhibition is dedicated to magazines, zines and comics that offer a platform for feminist and queer perspectives in art and popular culture. It not only sheds light on how important such publication projects are for the dissemination and visibility of feminist and queer art, but also how artistic publishing can be thought of in a queer-feminist manner. The spectrum ranges from magazines from the second wave of the women’s movement, which thought of art and politics together; she goes beyond alternative forms of self-publishing and zine culture, which reach an emancipatory and empowering attitude via the principle of do-it-yourself; and last but not least, it includes publication projects that draw cross-connections to questions of migration, postcolonialism, dis/ability, etc. The exhibition is developed and realized in cooperation with students from the Paris Lodron University Salzburg and the University Mozarteum Salzburg.
Marinella Senatore We Rise by Lifting Others April – Oktober 8, 2023
Marinella Senatore (1977 Cava de’ Tirreni, IT – Rome, IT) is a central figure in contemporary Italian art. With the help of various media, she develops artistic strategies that have the potential to set processes of social change in motion. Her focus is on the question of how the social divisions and polarization of our time can be countered artistically and how forms of community can emerge in which emancipation and empowerment are the main pillars.
Maria Bartuszová July 2023 – January 7, 2024
The Museum der Moderne Salzburg, in cooperation with Tate Modern, presents the first exhibition in Austria of the work of Maria Bartuszová (1936 Prague, CS – 1996 Košice, SK), an artist who defined abstract sculpture in her own way using innovative methods of plaster casting . From raindrops and eggs to the human body, Bartuszová was inspired by organic forms and cycles in nature.
Arch of Hysteria Between madness and ecstasy July 2023 – January 14, 2024
Under the title Arch of Hysteria: Between madness and ecstasy, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg is dedicating a large themed exhibition to the motif of the backward bend, with works including by Auguste Rodin, Gustav Klimt, Alfred Kubin, Max Ernst, Louise Bourgeois, VALIE EXPORT and Robert Longo.
Art in four dimensions Media art reconsidered Oktober 2023 – April 7, 2024
With over 500 works by international artists, the Generali Foundation Collection at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg preserves, researches and presents one of the most important holdings of media art in Austria. Based on selected positions, the collection spans an arc from avant-garde film of the 1960s and early video art of the 1970s to elaborate film, video, slide and sound installations from the 1990s onwards. With media-reflective, socio- and institution-critical, feminist and documentary works, it contains essential milestones of western art history. The exhibition is dedicated to a new reading of the collection. It focuses on aesthetic, psychological, motivic and methodological aspects and shows unexpected cross-connections and correspondences between the artistic thinking of different times. The exhibition thus enables a new perspective on important works of media art.
Anna Jermolaewa Otto Breicha Prize for Photo Art 2021 December 2023 – April 1, 2024
Anna Jermolaewa (1970 Leningrad, USSR – Vienna, AT) is the winner of the 2021 Otto Breicha Prize. She was expatriated in 1989 and came to Austria, where she first studied art history and completed her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 2002. Since 2018 she has been a professor for experimental design at the University of Art and Design Linz. The conceptual artist describes herself as a “realist” and her examination of reality is often critical and profoundly humorous. “Hostile Architecture”, for example, is a photo series begun in 2019 that captures how metal spikes and the like are mounted in public space in such a way that the homeless cannot stay there. At the same time, Jermolaewa documents the painful traces of this inhuman architecture on her own body.
Mediathek+ The Generali Foundation video and film collection December 2023 – April 1, 2024
Since it was founded, the Generali Foundation has built up one of the most important international media art collections from the 1960s, with a focus on experimental, media-reflective film and video art, political film, and feminist and performance-based video works. It includes all films and videos by artists such as Gottfried Bechtold, VALIE EXPORT, Dan Graham, Harun Farocki, Elke Krystufek, Gordon Matta-Clark, Martha Rosler and Heimo Zobernig. The media library in the Generali Foundation Study Center makes a large part of these films and videos accessible to researchers and all interested visitors at any time. In addition, important events that have taken place at the Generali Foundation since the 1990s – lectures, symposia, discussions with artists and performances – can be viewed.
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