Adrian Paci: Broken Words

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

Main Gallery:
Adrian Paci: Broken Words
October 18–December 1, 2019

Adrian Paci (*1969, Shkodër, Albania) presents artworks that oscillate between experiences, history, fiction, poetry, and documentation; capturing the tensions between. His projects focus on what emerges after war, upheaval, flight or forced migration, often exploring themes of loss, displacement, and the struggle of identity to re-assert itself. Paci often works with displaced people, migrants and refugees. Collaborations recently conducted with refugees are combined in this exhibition with other works that examine and depict means of expression beyond language. While chronicling trauma and tragedy, his work altogether exerts a powerful, humanist empathy, exploring the limits of language, to bring about another level of expression and reflection.

A catalogue will be published in collaboration with Kunsthalle Krems.

Kabinett:
Johanna Binder: Fabula Rasa
October 18–December 1, 2019

Johanna Binder (*1985, Salzburg) presents a video installation about masks, (cultural) identities and the human self amongst social circumstances. The artist creates a universe in which autonomy, (de)masking and cultural identity politics are poetically negotiated. Her work creates social entanglements and the vagaries of worldly weather in which we must rediscover/reinvent ourselves.

October Talks
The Salzburger Kunstverein presents October Talks, a lecture series on art and culture by artists, historians, curators, and other specialists. Each talk is introduced by Séamus Kealy (Director, Salzburger Kunstverein).

September 26, 7pm
Artist Talk: Herman Seidl in disscusion with Pierre Descamps / Winner of the SpallArt Prize 2019

October 3, 7pm
Artist Talk: Omer Fast in discussion with Michael Hering (Director, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München)

October 18, 7pm
Artist Talk with Adrian Paci

October 25, 7pm
Lecture & filmscreening:
Lecture by John C. Welchman & filmscreening of Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead videos Going East and Going West

October 30, 7pm
Lecture: OFF-Biennale Budapest. Lecture by Hajnalka Somogyi

For our second season of talks, Séamus Kealy has invited a variety of exciting speakers. For the first talk, Herman Seidl speaks with the artist Pierre Descamps, the inaugural winner of the SpallArt Prize 2019. In the second talk the artist Omer Fast and Michael Hering will talk about exhibtion making. On the occasion of the next exhibition opening at the Salzburger Kunstverein, Séamus Kealy speaks with the artist Adrian Paci. The fourth talk sees British art historian John C. Welchman speak about the work of the late American artist Mike Kelley in the context of a unique film screening. And lastly, the Hungarian curator and writer Hajnalka Somogyi will speak about her experiences founding and running the OFF-Biennale in Budapest, speaking also about the political situation and how it has impacted arts, culture and everyday life in Hungary.

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 programme. For further information please contact: Michaela Lederer, T +43 (0) 662 842294 15 / lederer@salzburger-kunstverein.at