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Megan Rooney
Green, I Want you Green
Main Hall & Ring Gallery
October 2–November 29, 2020
October 2, 2020, 7pm
Artist Talk: Megan Rooney in discussion with Emily LaBarge
8pm Opening of the exhibitions Megan Rooney & Luise Schröder
9pm Performance Everywhere Been There with Temitope Ajose-Cutting, Leah Marojevic & Megan Rooney. Soundtrack by Paolo Thorsen-Nagel.
Megan Rooney (*1985, South Africa) is an enigmatic storyteller whose work expands across painting, performance, sculpture and installation. Born in South Africa, raised in Canada, and now living in London, Megan Rooney blends both her styles of monumental abstract and intimate figurative painting with sculpture, dance and performance in her artistic practise. As artist in residence at the Salzburger Kunstverein in 2020, Megan Rooney has been invited to create a solo exhibition in the Main Gallery as well as an immersive, large-scale mural in the Ring Gallery, which will run for one year. Altogether these two exhibitions will be the largest single presentation for an artist ever presented at the Salzburger Kunstverein.
Curator: Séamus Kealy
Luise Schröder
Erinnerung ist ein Gespenst
Kabinett
October 2–November 29, 2020
The 2020 Spallart Prize Salzburg Award winner will present new work.
In her artistic works (including photographs, videos and publications), Luise Schröder (*1982, Potsdam) deals with the instrumentalization of the past as it pertains to a politics of the present. She examines the perpetuation of historical myths and their significance for various identities and communities. In the context of the 2020 SpallArt Prize Salzburg, the artist is showing photographs of recent work in the Kabinett gallery. This will include an intervention outside the Künstlerhaus: Memory Is a Ghost.
Omer Fast
The Invisible Hand
Ring Gallery
Running since February 2020
This immersive VR film follows a young girl who recounts her family’s uncanny past in the People’s Republic of China.
October Talks
The Salzburger Kunstverein presents October Talks, a lecture series on art and culture by artists, historians, curators, philosophers and other specialists. Each talk is introduced by Séamus Kealy (Director, Salzburger Kunstverein).
October 2, 2020, 7pm
Artist Talk: Megan Rooney in discussion with Emily LaBarge
October 15, 2020, 7pm
Lecture Performance & Book presentation
Past, Present, Present, Past. Lecture Performance by Gernot Wieland.
Followed by a book presentation with Ana Teixeira Pinto.
October 20, 2020, 7pm
Book presentation: Radical Sacrifice (in German Opfer) by Terry Eagleton
October 23, 2020, 7pm
Double Lecture: Bassam El Baroni. Curating the Diffused Site of the Political: Refugee Economies and the Public Sphere
Aziza Harmel. Three Movements & Crossing a Body of Water
October Talks is supported by Stadt Salzburg and the Blaue Gans Art Hotel.
Upcoming Exhibitions:
Lines of Thought
Main Hall
from December 11, 2020
Lines of Thought is an exhibition examining contemporary drawing today. Inspired by the work of the late Romanian artist, Alina Popa (1982–2019), a number of artists have been invited to present drawings that circumnavigate philosophical and scientific ideas in visual form.
Marlies Pöschl
Kabinett
from December 11, 2020
The 2019 Salzburg Emerging Artist Prize Winner Marlies Pöschl (*1982, Salzburg) works on collaborative projects and different forms of exchange and creates multi-perspective films, performances and installations.
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