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Press Release
The Museum der Moderne Salzburg continues its successful high-caliber
exhibition program in 2015. Highlights in spring are the mid-career survey by
the much-discussed artist Andrea Fraser and the exhibition Salzburg Unbuilt
recalling ideas for buildings in Salzburg that were not implemented. In summer
a major exhibition on two floors of the Mönchsberg building will feature E.A.T.
– Experiments in Art and Technology, a unique fusion of art and technology.
Following up from last summer’s music festival, Charlotte Salomon’s drawing
cycle Life? Or Theater? will be shown at the Rupertinum across the festival’s
center. In fall a retrospective of works by Carolee Schneemann will be on show
for the first time in Austria. Two further collection shows will feature top works
from the Museum’s holdings.
Exhibitions 2015
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Expressionisms from the Collection—from Kokoschka to Anzinger
March 7 – June 21, 2015
Rupertinum
Based on her first impressions evaluating of the museum collection, Beatrice von
Bormann, the newly hired modern art curator, will put together an exhibition on
Expressionism. Featuring paintings, drawings, and sculptures it will be showing
different facets of the “expessionisms” in the twentieth-century, from early
Expressionism before World War I to Neo-Expressionism in the 1960s and 1970s,
and the socalled Neue Wilde. Expressionism describes a way of working that focuses
more on gesture and emotional expression than an exact representation of reality.
Franz Marc described this endeavor in 1912 as a “subjective transformation of
nature.” Museum der Moderne Salzburg has outstanding examples of the early
Expressionism with works by Oskar Kokoschka, Richard Gerstl, Emil Nolde, and
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and also representative Neo-Expressionist works by Markus
Lüpertz and Georg Baselitz. Artists such as Georg Eisler, Karl Stark, and Alfred
Hrdlicka represent the Austrian version of Expressive Realism.
Curators: Beatrice von Bormann, Curator, with Barbara Herzog, Curatorial Assistant,
Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Andrea Fraser
March 21 – July 5, 2015
Mönchsberg [4]
Museum der Moderne Salzburg is the first Austrian institution to organize a survey
exhibition by the American artist Andrea Fraser (born 1965 in Billings, MT, lives in
Los Angeles), who was awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize for her life’s work in 2013.
Her groundbreaking work has sparked sometimes controversial debates and made
Fraser one of the most influential artists of her generation. Over a thirty-year period
she has created a large and diverse collection of works inspired by critical feminist
theory. She invites us to question the motives of the various actors in the art world. At
the same time, she emphasizes the importance of art and its institutions as
indispensable places of critical reflection about ourselves and our society. While the
artist continues to work energetically, the exhibition contains a comprehensive review
of her works over the last three decades.
A comprehensive catalogue will be published in conjunction of the exhibition.
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Museum der Moderne – Rupertinum
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Curators: Sabine Breitwieser, Director, with Tina Teufel, Curator, Museum der
Moderne Salzburg
Salzburg Unbuilt
March 28 – July 12, 2015
Mönchsberg [3]
In spring 2015 we are reviewing at the city of Salzburg from an entirely new
perspective. We will look at discarded ideas, failed concepts, and utopias. We can
consider what the city would look like today if the cathedral design by Scamozzi and
a similarly sized project by Solari had been realized. Or what would have become of
the Salzburg Festival if Poelzig’s mystic vision of a festival house had been built in
the Schlosspark at Hellbrunn. Architectural ideas for the city including the epochal
design for a Salzburg Guggenheim Museum in the Mönchsberg by Hans Hollein and
the panoramic lift by Delugan_Meissl will be shown. The exhibition considers designs
for the city of Salzburg, with architecture as a conceptual and utopian form. It also
describes the inherent resistance—of a technical, financial, or political nature—that
led to the failure of these projects.
The exhibition is a cooperation by Museum der Moderne Salzburg with Initiative
Architektur.
Guest Curator: Roman Höllbacher, Initiative Architektur
Curatorial Assistants: Verena Österreicher, Initiative Architektur, and Andrea Lehner,
Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Collection (working title)
April 25 – October 4, 2015
and
October 17, 2015 – April 10, 2016
Mönchsberg [2]
In spring 2015 the third rotation in the cycle of collection exhibitions with works from
the Generali Foundation collection will open, once again offering new insights into
these outstanding works and post-war art. Two collection exhibitions are scheduled in
2015 on Level [2] of the Mönchsberg building. The Generali Foundation collection
acquired in 2014 will be placed in dialogue with various works from the Museum’s
collection.
Charlotte Salomon
Life? Or Theater?
July 11 – October 18, 2015
Rupertinum
The cycle of works on paper entitled Life? Or Theater? by Charlotte Salomon (1917
Berlin – 1943 Auschwitz) is a unique document. It contains around eighthundred
gouaches painted in exile in France between 1940 and 1942—not long before the
26-year-old artist was deported and murdered. When she left these works in 1942
with her medical doctor she stated: “It contains my whole life.” A representative
selection of almost threehundred sheets will be shown at the Rupertinum, offering an
insight into her work, loves, and yearnings in Berlin during the 1920s and 1930s.
These works are notable not only for their special history and luminescent colors, but
also for the fusion of images, text, and music. Salomon herself called the work a
“singspiel,” because it contains repeated references to well-known pieces of music.
Last year the composer Marc-André Dalbavie was commissioned by the Salzburger
Festspiele to write an opera about Charlotte Salomon’s life and work, which was
premiered on July 28, 2014.
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In cooperation with the Joods Historisch Museum (Jewish History Museum) in
Amsterdam
Curator: Beatrice von Bormann, Curator, Museum der Moderne Salzburg
E.A.T. – Experiments in Art and Technology
July 25 – November 1, 2015
Mönchsberg [3] & [4]
In summer 2015 Museum der Moderne Salzburg is organizing a major exhibition
narrating the unique history of E.A.T., an association of scientists and artists. The
acronym stands for “Experiments in Art and Technology.” It was founded in 1966 by
Billy Klüver, an engineer at Bell Laboratories, and the artists Robert Rauschenberg
and Robert Whitman with the goal producing works of art against the background of
the rapidly developing new technologies. Scientists and artists wanted to work as
equal partners to produce works of art using the latest technologies. For the first time,
the exhibition offers a comprehensive insight into the diverse activities of E.A.T. from
the major New York event 9 evenings: theater and engineering to the pavilion at
Expo 1970 in Osaka. It not only relates the countless activities of the organization
over the last four decades but also includes individual works of art and installations,
archive material, videos, and ephemera, and also repeats of some of the main
performances.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a major publication.
Project Director: Sabine Breitwieser, Director, Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Guest Curator: Kathy Battista, New York
Curatorial Assistant: Christina Penetsdorfer, Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Otto Breicha Prize for Photographic Art 2015
October 31, 2015 – February 28, 2016
Rupertinum [1]
The Otto Breicha Prize for Photographic Art will be presented for the fifteenth time in 2015. It
is awarded every two years to an Austrian photographer or one residing in Austria. The
previous awards were given to Alfred Seiland, Otmar Thormann, Branko Lenart, Heinz
Cibulka, Manfred Willmann, Walter Berger, Paul A. Leitner, Friedl Kubelka, Seiichi Furuya,
Peter Dressler, Ferry Radax, Margherita Spiluttini, Ilse Haider, and Matthias Herrmann. The
prize stems from an initiative by the founding director of Museum der Moderne Salzburg,
Otto Breicha (1932–2003), who established the first collection of photographs and also
inaugurated the Rupertinum Photography Prize. The Otto Breicha Prize for Photographic Art
is worth 5,000 euro, generiously provided by the Breicha family.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication.
Curator: Margit Zuckriegl, Curator, Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Carolee Schneemann
Kinetic Painting
November 21, 2015 – February 28, 2016
Mönchsberg [3] & [4]
Museum der Moderne Salzburg is organizing a major retrospective exhibition of the
works of the influential artist Carolee Schneemann (born 1939 in Fox Chase, PA,
lives in New Paltz, NY). Schneemann has made a name for herself above all through
her radical performances in the 1960s and 1970s like Meat Joy or Interior Scroll. This
exhibition shows her pioneering work for the first time in a wider context, focusing in
particular on aspects such as “kinetic painting,” as the artist herself calls it, and
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experimental film. It starts with Schneemann’s early landscape painting and “painting
constructions” from the late 1950s and early 1960s. The first performances and
experimental films lead into her kinetic installations and current work. Carolee
Schneemann is an internationally acclaimed artist whose works are to be found in
major museum collections and are shown throughout the world.
A comprehensive catalogue is being prepared to accompany the exhibition.
Curators: Sabine Breitwieser, Director, with Branden Joseph, Professor, Columbia
University, New York, as Advising Curator, and Tina Teufel, Curator, Museum der
Moderne Salzburg
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