May 16–18, 2025
May 16–18, 2025
Fünfzigzwanzig, Salzburger Kunstverein, Initiative Architektur, all in Salzburg; Schloss Linderhof, Ettal in Bavaria
International research festival featuring a symposium, workshops, performances, music sets, excursions, and exhibition openings.
May 17–July 25, 2025
Fünfzigzwanzig, Salzburg
Exhibition and city walks.
May 17–July 13, 2025
Salzburger Kunstverein
Associated programme.
“It takes a lot of courage to accept mediocrity for somebody who is pursuing sublime ideals beyond this world.”
—Durkheim to Ludwig II in Visconti’s Ludwig
The research festival wild thinX opens a speculative space—against the backdrop of current violence and political excess—to approach both built and natural environments anew. Nonconformity in this context is also understood as a resistant practice, positioning itself against permanent renewal and in favor of fluid spatial strategies: What was non-conformist yesterday is already form-conformist or norm-conformist today. The appeal of engaging with making and thinking differently lies in the potential horizons of political imagination as a symbolic form.
festival
Friday, May 16, 2025
Fünfzigzwanzig, Residenzplatz 10, 5020 Salzburg
5–8pm, festival and exhibition opening
6pm, Tangerine, performance by Göksu Kunak (artist, Berlin)
Salzburger Kunstverein, Hellbrunner Straße 3, 5020 Salzburg
8pm–midnight, exhibition openings
9pm, Anti-Fascist Art Manifesto, performance by Mikołaj Sobczak (artist, Warsaw)
10pm, Dose of Pleasure, music-set by Alvin Collantes (artist, Berlin)
Saturday, May 17, 2025
Fünfzigzwanzig, Residenzplatz 10, 5020 Salzburg
10am–1pm, atopia / utopia / dystopia / heterotopia, workshop by Jack Halberstam (Prof. of Gender Studies and English, Columbia University, New York) and Damon R. Young (Assoc Prof of French and Film and Media / Programme in Critical Theory, Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of California, Berkeley)
Fünfzigzwanzig / Salon Rosa Beige, Residenzplatz 10, 5020 Salzburg
10am–1pm, “Transing” Architecture: Gender, Disability and Undesigning Diversity, workshop by Elio Choquette (architect, initiator of Here We Will Be, Tioh’tià:ke / Mooniyang [so-called Montreal])
Initiative Architektur, Sinnhubstraße 3, 5020 Salzburg
2–6pm, symposium with Clare Barlow (Director of Peoples History Museum, Manchester), Elio Choquette, Theo Deutinger (architect, curator, author, Saalfelden / Vienna), S.E. Eisterer (Asst Prof of History and Theory of Architecture, Princeton University), Göksu Kunak, Palace of Un/Learning / Bernadette Krejs (architect and researcher, Technical University Vienna), Wenke Schladitz (architect, movement researcher, Berlin), Mikołaj Sobczak, Sergio Villanueva Preston (Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University), Christoph Wagner (architect, Berlin), Matthias Weiß (Prof of Art History, Paris Lodron University Salzburg), and Damon R. Young
Fünfzigzwanzig, Residenzplatz 10, 5020 Salzburg
7:30pm, “Anarchitecture and the Aesthetics of Nothing,” keynote by Jack Halberstam with a response by Damon R. Young
9:30pm, performance by Bhenji Ra (artist, Gadigal land, Eora Nation)
10:30pm, music-set by Tati au Miel (artist, sound designer, DJ, producer)
Sunday, May 18, 2025
All-day, excursion to Schloss Linderhof with the newly reopened Venusgrotte, Ettal (Bavaria) with a screening of Luchino Visconti’s Ludwig (1973) on the journey
Admission is free (except for the excursion), limited seats.
All events are in English language.
Registration is required for both the workshops and the excursion; please email organisation@5020.info.
Discover full programme and all partners here.
exhibitions
May 17–July 13, 2025
Salzburger Kunstverein
Associated solo exhibitions by Mikołaj Sobczak and Tania Gheerbrant
May 17–July 25, 2025
Fünfzigzwanzig
Group exhibition with Maria Thereza Alves / Chám Krai Kytõm Pandã Grét, Andrea Bowers, Nicolas Cilins, Gordon Matta Clark, Mwangi Hutter, Hiroharu Mori, Prenninger Kreis (Herbert Eichholzer, Axl Leskoschek, Anna Lülja-Praun), Draper Shreeve, Rebecco Ann Tess, and research contributions by all festival’s participants.
city walks together with HOSI Salzburg
An initiative of the working group Queer Spaces formed by Eleonora Cardella Goroll (architect, Salzburg), S.E. Eisterer (architectural historian, Pennsylvania), Sophie Goltz (artistic lead / curator, Vienna/Berlin), Roman Höllbacher (art historian, Salzburg), Niklas Koschel (curator, Salzburg), Karolina Radenkovic (curator, Salzburg), and Nico Weiss (architect, Salzburg).
