The Salzburger Kunstverein is pleased to announce its 2018 winter & spring exhibition program, which includes five group and solo exhibitions. A series of events complements the exhibition program. See our website for more information.
Winter 2018
All three exhibitions open on Friday, February 16, 8pm
Main Gallery:
Lucy Skaer: La Chasse
February 17-April 1, 2018
British artist Lucy Skaer (Cambridge, 1975) draws on pre-existing imagery, narrative and forms that bear relationships to mass production and global trade, making combinations within sculpture, film and print. This exhibition consists of new sculptural work, where Skaer scrutinizes conventional classifications of objects as well as production methods in a critical play with historical motifs. She draws also from her own oeuvre, reworking existing sculptures into representations of animals, referencing a medieval book of miniature illuminations depicting hunting techniques called the Livre de chasse.
Produced in collaboration with KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin.
Kabinett:
Erich Gruber: Panzergast
February 17–April 1, 2018
Salzburg-based artist Erich Gruber presents a series of wickedly-detailed, black and white drawings based on the fragments of dead insects that he finds, often in his studio. These lifeless remains are depicted by Gruber almost as in a play of attraction and repulsion, while their objectivity simultaneously renders any pathos into a quirky obscurity.
Ringgalerie:
Nikola Röthemeyer & Annika Sailer: Schwarmfänger
February 17, 2018–February 3, 2019
Working over the year, in several stages, Nikola Röthemeyer and Annika Sailer, who are sisters, will transform the Ringgalerie into several narrative spaces. So-called “contact zones” emerge in this exhibition, where the public encounters mural-like representations and architectural forms which evoke flora, fauna and other elements as both playful abstraction and figurative ambivalence.
Spring 2018
Both exhibitions open on Thursday, April 12, 8pm
Main Gallery
Katarina Zdjelar
April 13–July 8, 2018
Based in Rotterdam, Katarina Zdjelar (Belgrade, 1979) presents her first solo exhibition in Austria. Her practice consists of working with moving image and sound, performances, book projects and creating different platforms for speculation and exchange. Consisting of an installation of three videos, this exhibition will present a combination of new and previously-existing works as an early survey of her oeuvre. Zdjelar has long investigated idioms and problematics of narrative, meaning and association as they slip through different languages and cultural expressions. Her most recent work deftly tests these notions through sutures and slippages, especially between music and song.
Kabinett
Black Pages
April 13–July 8, 2018
The Viennese-based artist and publishing collective Black Pages (Nick Oberthaler, Christoph Meier and Ute Müller) will use the Kabinett as a base for publishing, workshops and presentations, as well as a series of lectures by other self-publishing artist collectives from Europe.
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.
