The museum shows art from the 20th and 21st centuries
True Pictures?
Contemporary photography from Canada and the USA
until June 26, 2022
Similar to the North American fine arts of the 1950s and 1960s, North American photography of this period was also regarded as exemplary for many years. However, when artistic photography in Europe went its own way in the 1980s, the orientation towards American photography no longer seemed binding for many younger artists.
The large-scale exhibition True Pictures? reacts to this circumstance by presenting contemporary North American photography with a more open view. Analogous to the artistic emancipation of photography in Europe, the exhibition identifies the late 1970s as the starting point of a fundamental change in the understanding of photography in North America. It was at this time that the large-format tableau was “invented” as a pictorial form, which Jeff Wall used for the first time with his lightboxes. The exhibition focuses on the work of artists born between 1946 and 1989 and on the diverse and far-reaching consequences of a new understanding of photography in North America.
Jasmina Cibic
Most Favoured Nation
until Juni 12, 2022
The works of London-based artist and filmmaker Jasmina Cibic (1979 Ljubljana, SI) critically examine nation building and the mechanisms of soft power. The term soft power describes the indirect exercise of political power by states and actors over other countries and societies. Culture serves as an essential instrument for the self-presentation of national identity and mythology. Jasmina Cibic decodes the forms of political influence in the arts and art producers and translates them into space-filling installations, performances and elaborately staged films.
For her first solo museum exhibition in Austria, the artist is developing an immersive spatial architecture in the tradition of debating salons, supplemented with a selection of her films. The Museum der Moderne Salzburg is thus presenting the work of an internationally renowned representative of the generation of artists who critically examine the legacy of former Yugoslavia.
Richard Kriesche
a solo exhibition : a solo presence
until Oktober 2nd, 2022
The exhibition pays tribute to Richard Kriesche (1940 Vienna, AT) as an international pioneer of media art in Austria. His work offers an artistic view of the media, information and digitization revolutions from the 1960s to the present. The exhibition is based on the artist’s examination of current digitization phenomena and looks back to their roots and origins: to the principles of dematerialization, electronization and computerization. The newly developed interactive installation of a self-space is related to the artist’s central work groups.
Artist books, catalog design and graphic design are a central part of the artistic practice of Heimo Zobernig (1958 Mauthen, AT). The graphic conception and implementation is not limited to the company’s own books and catalogues. It also includes posters, invitation cards, record covers, and the like. They translate Zobernig’s interest in the relationship between form and function. As well as in ways of presenting art and in exhibition displays, in an extended publication context, and reveal an intensive preoccupation with typography, language, classification systems, and color theory. Standardizations in this area (e.g. the DIN A4 format or the CMYK color model) are made artistically productive and applicable design rules are playfully questioned. The exhibition uses examples from the library, archive and collection to show how the Austrian artist dealt with the linguistic and visual conditions of artistic publishing.
