20 Propositions

20 Propositions is a series of 20 exhibitions, performances and screenings taking place over the summertime in the Salzburger Kunstverein. Each project phase has its own opening event. The Sunset Kino, Austria’s only outdoor avant-garde cinema, includes seven screenings of contemporary video and film.

Programme:

Friday, July 20, 2018, 8pm
Exhibitions: Jakob Kolding, Christiane Peschek, Emeka Okereke, Maria Legat, Nikola Röthemeyer & Annika Sailer*
Performance: Sam Keogh*
9pm Sunset Kino: Glue by Oisin Byrne & Gary Farrelly*
11pm DJ Set: Emeka Okereke

Wednesday, July 25, 2018, 9pm
Sunset Kino: Dreams Rewired by Manu Luksch, Co-Directors: Martin Reinhart, Thomas Tode**

Wednesday, August 1, 2018, 8pm
Exhibitions: Carl Johan Högberg, Ulrike Königshofer, Iva Lulashi*
Performance: Ei Arakawa with Christian Naujoks & Class*
9pm Sunset Kino: Gravity Matters by Bjørn Melhus**

Wednesday, August 8, 2018, 8pm
Talk: Séamus Kealy & Hildegund Amanshauser
9pm Sunset Kino: Rheingold by Jan Bonny & Alex Wissel***

Wednesday, August 15, 2018, 8pm
Exhibitions: Mark Van Yetter, Mehraneh Atashi, Markus Wilfling*
9pm Sunset Kino: Corpus Callosum by Michael Snow**

Thursday, August 16, 2018, 6pm
Artist Talk: Markus Wilfling

Wednesday, August 22, 2018, 9pm
Sunset Kino: In the Beginning was the Eye and Mappamundi by Bady Minck**

Wednesday, August 29, 2018, 9pm
Sunset Kino: Donna Haraway: Storytelling for Earthly Survival by Fabrizio Terranova**

*Curated and introduction by Séamus Kealy
**Part of Earthly Mutations, curated and introduction by Vanina Saracino
***Curated and introduction by Erika Hock

Curated by Séamus Kealy, 20 Propositions is produced in homage to the exhibition 40 Days 20 Exhibitions, held 20 years ago in the Salzburger Kunstverein, and curated by the director then, Hildegund Amanshauser. This new version takes a different format but arises out a spirit of flux and engagement as the earlier exhibition had. 20 Propositions is also in collaboration with the Salzburg International Summer Academy, which Hildegund Amanshauser currently directs. 20 Propositions includes solo presentations, screenings and performances by local, national and international artists, including four Summer Academy artists, and guest-curated screenings.

The Central Proposition
In order to survive, and to adjust to the speed of change and political shifts around us, we must propose and form new models of thinking, living and believing. 20 Propositions, as several parts to one whole, is considered as an unfinished series of experiments, speculations and encounters strung together. Notions of the temporary and the ephemeral are prioritised in this collaborative project. At its root 20 Propositions questions notions of producing, staging and mounting exhibitions. What binds everything together is a sense of incompletion, where processes of production are deliberately paused or thwarted. The project as a whole places emphasis on a promethean model of art production as actively coming to being. Everything comes out of a greater nothingness, and is thus again spirited away.

Artists

Exhibitions
Jakob Kolding (DK/DE) / Christiane Peschek (AT) / Emeka Okereke (NG) / Maria Legat (AT) / Nikola Röthemeyer & Annika Sailer (DE) / Carl Johan Högberg (SE/NL) / Ulrike Königshofer (AT) / Iva Lulashi (AL/IT) / Mark Van Yetter (US) / Mehraneh Atashi (IR/NL) / Markus Wilfling (AT)

Screenings
Oisin Byrne & Gary Farrelly (IE) / Manu Luksch (AT), Co-Directors: Martin Reinhart (AT), Thomas Tode (DE) / Bjørn Melhus (DE) / Jan Bonny & Alex Wissel (DE) / Michael Snow (CA) / Bady Minck (LU/AT) / Fabrizio Terranova (BE)

Performances & Talks
Sam Keogh (IE) / Ei Arakawa (JP/US) with Christian Naujoks (DE) & Class

Sunset Kino
Sunset Kino is a programme of film screenings in the outdoor cinema pavilion adjacent to the Salzburger Kunstverein. The focus is on contemporary art and avant-garde cinema. The programme is curated by Séamus Kealy, Erika Hock and Vanina Saracino, who curates the series “Earthly Mutations.” Introduced by the curator or director, screenings are about 90 minutes. Picnic tables and a bar are on-site. People can bring or acquire food from Café Cult. Free entry.

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 m²) 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 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