Spring 2022 exhibition programme

This year our programme engages with topics of migration, the related nostalgia for an abandoned homeland, and the movement of objects and song carrying traces of past time and place. We will also encounter politicized representations of femininity as a sounding board for greater topics of societal behaviour, taboo, sexuality and gender imbalance.

After a 2021 website overhaul, we have launched Digital Catalogue. This platform is an online version of an exhibition catalogue, with the exhibition text and documentary images accompanied by online videos of the exhibition, some of the artwork, and interviews with the curators and artists. Available here

We have three year-long projects. In our Red Room an audio version of James Joyce’s Ulysses is presented in full to mark the Centenary of the book’s 1922 publishing. In the Ring Gallery we present Omer Fast’s VR-film The Invisible Hand, available for viewing anytime. Also an astonishing mural by Megan Rooney fills the corridors and ceilings of the Ring Gallery.

Exhibitions: April 1–May 15
Openings: Friday, April 1, 8pm

Café Heaven (Great Hall)
Invited by Séamus Kealy, artists and curators Bruno Mokross and Edin Zenun will curate the exhibition Café Heaven. Mokross and Zenun are the co-directors of Pina, an artist-run exhibition space in Vienna. Their exhibition will take the format of a Viennese Café as the framework for presenting a number of young artists’ work. The exhibition space will thus be designed as a place to hang out and have a coffee and engage with the artworks on display in a more collective manner.

Artists: Kea Bolenz, Kerstin von Gabain, James Lewis, Irina Lotarevich, Thea Möller, Johanna Odersky, Micah Schippa, Helena Tan

On the Quiet (Kabinett)
Curators: Benjamin Appel & Carolina Perez Pallares

This group exhibition travels in a 32-kilogram package from several German venues on to the Salzburger Kunstverein, and then to the Museo de Arte Conteporaneo de Chile.

Artists: Jamika Ajalon, Benjamin Appel, ART N MORE (Paul Bowler & Georg Weißbach), Silvia Bächli, Ernst Caramelle, Eric Hattan, Schirin Kretschmann, Carolina Pérez Pallares, Marion Porten, Thomas Rentmeister, Manuela Ribadeneira, Tilo Schulz, Maya Schweizer

Exhibitions: May 27–July 17
Openings: Friday, May 27, 8pm

Khalil Rabah (Great Hall & Kabinett)
Palestinian artist Khalil Rabah is best known for rewriting and inventing forms of history. Born in Jerusalem in 1961 and living in Ramallah today, the artist employs a sense of forward thinking and wit to his work that is rooted in issues of identity, displacement and politics. Emerging from his background in architecture, his art practice aims to create an alternative vision that challenges public perception and expectations. With a long history of producing artwork that also explores topics of migration, Khalil Rabah will produce a major installation in the Great Hall, along with a presentation of video work in the Kabinett.

Preview: summer programme (July–October)
Camille Henrot (Great Hall)
Tina Hainschwang (Kabinett)
Sunset Kino: Austria’s only outdoor, avant-garde cinema.

Preview: autumn programme (October–December)
Bani Abidi (Great Hall)
Jonas Geise (Kabinett)
Annual Members Exhibition (Great Hall)
Salzburg Emerging Art Award Winners Exhibition (Kabinett)

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 exhibition areas (in total 500 square metres) and 22 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 our website for regular updates on our programme.

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