Ashley Hans Scheirl: Ob_Scenery

The Salzburger Kunstverein is pleased to announce its autumn program. A series of events complements the exhibitions. See our website for more information.

Main Gallery:
Ashley Hans Scheirl: Ob_Scenery
October 5–November 25, 2018

With an artistic practice spanning over three decades, Ashley Hans Scheirl has worked with various media, including film, performance, sound, drawing and writing. However painting has been her focus most recently. By creating walk-in scenographic installations, she transcends the usual limitations of the painter’s visual and physical space. In doing so, the artist uses the formula “trans-”: transgender, transmedium, transgenre. Anything caught up within binary logic is brought into circulation and multiplied. With an anarchistic humour, symbols of the sexual, anal and of reproduction are interwoven by this Salzburg-born artist with metaphors of the neoliberal economy.

Ashley Hans Scheirl was born as “Angela Scheirl” in Salzburg in 1956 and studied restoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1975 to 1980. In the early 1980s she moved to New York, working for the weekly performance evening “Wednesdays at A’s.” For 16 years, Scheirl lived and worked in London, where she was part of an international scene of queer artists and adopted the transgender identity “Hans.” In 2003 she received her Master of Arts diploma in fine arts from the Central Saint Martins College. Since 2006, Scheirl has been a professor of “contextual painting” at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 2017 she participated in the documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel. She is currently living as a DAAD Fellow in Berlin.
 

Kabinett:
Gunda Gruber: fast forward rewind
October 5–November 25, 2018

Salzburg-based artist Gunda Gruber works between drawing, painting, sculpture, video and installation. Her current work plays with fields of space and shadowy figures and forms within fluctuating spatial and time-based zones, altogether between these different media as an overall installation. Flitting between notions of interior and exterior, real and imaginary, and architectural and model, this installation in the Kabinett offers the exhibited space as a moody and transient “creature” to be encountered by the visitor and to ultimately immerse within.

October Talks
The Salzburger Kunstverein presents October Talks, an exciting series of talks on art and culture by international curators, directors, philosophers, and other specialists.

October 5, 7pm
Atist talk: Daria de Beauvais (Senior Curator, Palais de Tokyo, Paris) in discussion with Ashley Hans Scheirl

October 10, 7pm
Sobey Art Award: European launch of the Sobey Art Award by Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Canada

October 16, 7pm
Book presentation: Materialism by Terry Eagleton

October 17, 7pm
Lecture: Institutional agendas: Solo exhibitions versus group exhibitions by Nicolaus Schafhausen

October 25, 7pm
Lecture: Manifesta 12 Palermo / The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Existence by Mirjam Varadinis

For our first season of talks, Séamus Kealy has invited a variety of exciting speakers whose roles and contexts differ greatly from one to the next. For the first talk, Daria de Beauvais (Curator, Palais de Tokyo, Paris) interviews the Salzburg-born artist Ashley Hans Scheirl on the occasion of her exhibition opening. The second talk sees Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Chief Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada, presenting the European launch of Canada’s prestigious Sobey Art Award. For the third talk, the infamous, influential and controversial thinker Terry Eagleton returns to the Salzburger Kunstverein to present the German version of his book Materialism. The very next evening, Nicolaus Schafhausen, the provocateur Curator and Director of Kunsthalle Wien, who has recently and very publicly resigned, will speak on his practise and praxis. Finally, Swiss Curator Mirjam Varadinis (Kunsthaus Zürich) speaks about her recent curatorial work with Manifesta 2018.

October Talks is supported by Stadt Salzburg and the Blaue Gans Art Hotel.

About Salzburger Kunstverein
The Salzburger Kunstverein is a leading organisation for producing and exhibiting international and Austrian contemporary art. Founded in 1844, the Salzburger Kunstverein owns and is housed in the historic, notoriously-red Künstlerhaus building, which includes several exhibition areas, an outdoor pavilion, and 21 studios for artists and art initiatives. Current trends in contemporary international art are presented here, where artists can meet and be met, and where art, art theory and cultural policies are analysed and discussed. The Director of the Salzburger Kunstverein is Séamus Kealy.

Stay connected:
Please check out our website www.salzburger-kunstverein.at for regular updates on our program. For further information please contact: Michaela Lederer, T +43 (0) 662 842294 15 / lederer [​at​] salzburger-kunstverein.at