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. It is no coincidence that most of these are exhibitions with works by female artists in the context of the museum’s strategy. The artistic production of women is given a high priority in the sense of equal rights as well as the conscious visualization of female and queer positions and topics.
Come & See! The Generali Foundation’s film and video collection
01.12. 2023 — 15.09. 2024 // Generali Foundation study centre, Rupertinum
Since its inception, the Generali Foundation has built up one of the most important collections of media art from the 1960s onwards, encompassing many important Austrian and international positions. The focus is on media-reflexive film and video art, political film as well as feminist and performative video works. The media library at the Generali Foundation Study Center makes a large part of these films and videos accessible to all interested visitors on site at any time. In this way, the museum underlines the importance of free access to artistic film and video archives as part of the cultural memory of recent times. The exhibition Come & See! provides an in-depth and commented insight into the range of this film and video collection on the basis of selected topics. In addition, Gottfried Bechtold, Sanja Iveković, VALIE EXPORT and Harun Farocki, four artists whose works have a special media art and social relevance will be examined in more detail in a changing focus programme.
Ilit Azoulay. QUEENDOM. Navigating Future Codes
26.01. — 16.06. 2024 // Mönchsberg
The struggle of women and artists for their freedom and their narratives are the focus of Ilit Azoulay’s first solo exhibition in Austria, which the Museum der Moderne Salzburg is dedicating to the artist. Azoulay was born in Israel, has Moroccan roots, lives and works in Berlin. In her interdisciplinary art practice, she breaks with the traditional single-lens perspective of the photo camera and reassembles images based on extensive research data. She asks questions about the mechanisms of historiography, cultural appropriation, and practices of empathy. Overcoming the limitations of national and male representations, her works offer pathways to a networked Middle East, where identities are fluid and complexity is valued.
series of exhibitions anniversary year 2024
Open up rooms! The Collections
02.02. — 09.10. 2024 // Mönchsberg
Playing means changing!
15.03. – 01.09. 2024 // Mönchsberg
The space in our heads.
10.10. – 02.02. 2025 // Mönchsberg
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10.10. – 02.02. 2025 // Mönchsberg
The year 2024 is marked by great anniversaries for the Museum der Moderne Salzburg: Twenty years ago, the extraordinary location on the Mönchsberg was opened and became a new landmark for the state and the city of Salzburg. Ten years ago, the Generali Foundation Collection, one of Austria’s most important private art collections with an international focus, came to Salzburg on permanent loan and has been a productive player at the museum ever since. On the occasion of these anniversaries, the museum is presenting a series of exhibitions that bring together the outstanding art collections that are preserved and researched at the museum: its own holdings, the Generali Foundation Collection, as well as the Federal Photo Collection and the Collection of the State of Salzburg / Art Promotion. Two levels on the Mönchsberg are used for four collection exhibitions almost all year round. The 2024 collection exhibitions are presented by the Museum der Moderne Salzburg in cooperation with the Generali Foundation.
Elfriede Mejchar 19.04. – 15.09. 2024 // Rupertinum
In 2024, exhibitions of works by the Austrian photographer Elfriede Mejchar (1924–2020 Vienna, AT) will take place at three museums. The Museum der Moderne Salzburg is part of a cooperation with the Landesgalerie Niederösterreich and the Wien Museum, which is honoring the artist’s work at three different locations, each with a different focus, on the occasion of the artist’s 100th birthday. The holdings of photographs by Mejchar in the photo collections at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg comprise a total of 665 works. Otto Breicha, the first director of the predecessor institution, was a long-time companion of Mejchar’s, who recognized and promoted the artistic value of her photographic work. As early as 1982, one year before the official opening of the Rupertinum, a comprehensive collection was added to the photographic collection, which grew through further acquisitions and donations and is a focal point of the holdings.
Rose English Memory Theatre
05.06. 2024 – 02.02. 2025 // Mönchsberg
The Museum der Moderne Salzburg presents the first comprehensive retrospective of the work of the British artist Rose English in the German-speaking world. In the midst of conceptual art, the dance scene and the feminist scene, English (b. 1950 Hereford, GB) in the 1970s in Great Britain. Today, she is one of the most influential performance artists. In her extraordinary interdisciplinary work, she combines elements of theatre, circus and opera to explore the themes of gender politics and the presence of performers. A commissioned performance program accompanies the exhibition with four performances by younger international artists whose work is related to the artistic practice of English.
Rose English Studio Archive, Foto: Hugo Glendinning
Sophie Thun
4.10. 2024 – 23.02. 2025 // Rupertinum
The photographic work of Sophie Thun (b. 1985 Frankfurt am Main, DE) resembles a stream of images of places and spaces in which the artist has worked and exhibited. At the same time, she is always present in the picture as the author of her analogue photographs: sometimes she looks confidently into the camera with the shutter release in her hand, sometimes she is represented by her photographic apparatus. Thun always uses her body as an instrument to question established representations of (female) representation. Through methods such as cutting, splitting and multiplying, she represents identity in a processual and changeable way. Her impressive installations play with our perception of reality and image. The exhibition at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg is Thun’s first solo museum exhibition.
Artistic Research / Experimenting with Collections 4.10. 2024 – 23.02. 2025 //Generali Foundation study centre, Rupertinum
The project Artistic Research – Experimenting with Collections deals with the collection and archive of the Generali Foundation as a place for artistic forms of knowledge. In a series of experimental proposals, artists – candidates of the PhD in the Arts, the artistic doctoral program of the Mozarteum University Salzburg – how this knowledge can be made accessible in the present. The focus is on artistic processes that see themselves as research. They pursue a current, critical approach to avant-garde, question categories such as value and conservation, and deal with questions of exhibition conception and presentation. The project uses experimental artistic research methods to develop possibilities for a new reading of the collection.
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