Salzburger Kunstverein

Salzburger Kunstverein Opening hours: Tue-Sun, 12:00-19:00, Entrance free The current director is Séamus Kealy. Entrance to all exhibitions and events is free.
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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 Künstlerhaus building, which is located in the city center of Salzburg. Our exhibitions range from large-scale, monographic shows to international, touring projects to thematic group exhibitions

, to projects by upcoming artists as well as by artists in residence. All forms of contemporary art are explored here: new media, film and video installations, conceptual art, public art, photography, painting, sculpture, drawing and other cross-disciplinary practices. We also delivers dynamic content in the form of artist talks, screenings, lectures, symposia, and publications, and aims to encourage interpersonal dialogue and collaborative forms of mediation with audiences. The exhibition areas of the Salzburger Kunstverein are a total of 500 m². In addition there are 21 studios for artists and art initiatives in the Künstlerhaus. Der Salzburger Kunstverein versteht sich als eine führende Institution für die Produktion und Ausstellung internationaler und nationaler zeitgenössischer Kunst. 1844 gegründet ist der Salzburger Kunstverein im historischen Künstlerhaus im Stadtzentrum von Salzburg beheimatet und wird vom Iro-Kanadier Séamus Kealy geleitet. Unsere Ausstellungsformate bewegen sich im breiten Spektrum großer, monografischer Präsentationen über internationale, tourende Projekte bis hin zu Schauen junger, aufstrebender Künstler_innen sowie Präsentationen von Artist-in-Residence Künstler_innen. Alle Formen zeitgenössischer Kunst können bei uns erfahren werden: neue Medien, Film- und Video-Installationen, Fotografie, Malerei, Skulptur, Zeichnung, Konzeptkunst, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum als auch andere multi-disziplinären Praktiken. Unser Programm vermitteln wir auf vielfältige Weise: in Form von Künstlergesprächen, Screenings, Vorträgen, Symposien oder Publikationen. Unser größtes Anliegen ist es, unser Programm partizipativ zu vermitteln und einen persönlichen Dialog mit unseren Besucher_innen herzustellen. Der Salzburger Kunstverein verfügt über insgesamt 500 m² Ausstellungsfläche, das Künstlerhaus im Besitz des Salzburger Kunstvereins beherbergt weiters 21 Ateliers, in denen Künstler_innen und Künstler_innenkollektive vor Ort arbeiten. Der Eintritt zu allen Ausstellungen und Veranstaltungen ist frei.

Still on view until 20 September: [unintelligible] by Hac Vinent Hac Vinent ‘‘In the context of the show, access intimac...
02/09/2026

Still on view until 20 September:
[unintelligible] by Hac Vinent Hac Vinent

‘‘In the context of the show, access intimacy (after Mia Mingus) names a form of recognition in which access needs do not have to be repeatedly exposed, defended, or translated into the language of deficiency. Access becomes less a individual problem to be solved than a shared practice of arranging space differently. The directional sound of the 3 channel video installation asks the visitor to participate in such a rearrangement: to turn, reposition the body, and abandon the assumption that perception begins from a universal standpoint. Orientation, in this sense, concerns how a person finds a position within a space, but also how institutions and technologies direct bodies toward some possibilities and away from others... ..the human that emerges here is therefore a contradictory and relational composite: technologically mediated, materially vulnerable and persistently more complex than the systems attempting to contain it.‘‘

Excerpt from the curatorial text by Mirela Baciak Mirela Baciak
Photo: Katharina Maria Wimmer .maria.wimmer

29/08/2026

What if one thing could contain another possible thing?

Watch the interview with Ryan Gander and hear him speak about the ideas behind his exhibition One Hundred Things Twice at Salzburger Kunstverein, developed as part of our 2026 program CAPTCHA Realism.

→ Full interview via link in bio / salzburger-kunstverein.at/ryangander_video

Ryan Gander, One Hundred Things Twice
On view at Salzburger Kunstverein through 20 September 2026.

Curated by

Reel and interview by .agency

Neue Gastronomie im Künstlerhaus gesucht! ☕️🍽️🧊Der Salzburger Kunstverein sucht ab 1. Jänner 2027 neue Pächter:innen für...
25/08/2026

Neue Gastronomie im Künstlerhaus gesucht!
☕️🍽️🧊

Der Salzburger Kunstverein sucht ab 1. Jänner 2027 neue Pächter:innen für das Café | Bistro | Restaurant im Künstlerhaus. Eine frühere Übernahme ist bereits ab 1. Oktober 2026 möglich.

Direkt an der Salzach, nur wenige Minuten von der Altstadt entfernt, bietet das Lokal einen besonderen Ort zwischen Kunst, Gastronomie und Stadtleben – mit voll ausgestatteter Küche, möbliertem Gastraum und einer großzügigen Terrasse direkt am Wasser.

Was wir suchen:
Ein kreatives und erfahrenes Team – idealerweise ein Gastronom:innenpaar – mit einer eigenständigen gastronomischen und konzeptuellen Idee, die auf den besonderen Kontext des Künstlerhauses reagiert. Wir wünschen uns einen lebendigen, offenen Treffpunkt für Künstler:innen, Besucher:innen, Nachbar:innen, Tourist:innen und die Salzburger Stadtgesellschaft.

Die wichtigsten Eckdaten:
• 110 m² Gesamtfläche
• 40 Sitzplätze innen + 40 Sitzplätze auf der Terrasse
• vollständig ausgestattete Gastronomieküche
• möbliertes Lokal mit von Architektin Elsa Prohaska gestaltetem Inventar
• Pachtzins: € 1.600 netto/Monat, zzgl. Betriebskosten und Strom
•Öffnungszeiten am Abend erwünscht

Interesse?
Für Besichtigungen und weitere Informationen:
Simona Gaisberger
[email protected]
0662 / 842294

Wir freuen uns auf aussagekräftige Bewerbungen mit einem gastronomischen und inhaltlichen Konzept für das Café | Bistro | Restaurant im Salzburger Kunstverein.

Gerne weitersagen und teilen! ✨

We are pleased to welcome our current writer-in-residence: Hana Elhaddad 🫧🫧Hana is based in Cairo and is interested in c...
24/08/2026

We are pleased to welcome our current writer-in-residence: Hana Elhaddad 🫧🫧

Hana is based in Cairo and is interested in contemporary art, which she also writes about.

The residency is organised in partnership with ArtReview

🤓

23/08/2026

An excerpt from our interview with Hac Vinent, whose exhibition [unintelligible] is currently on view at Salzburger Kunstverein | Studio.

Hac questions the idea of a supposedly complete human body, instead understanding embodiment as something produced through attachments, technologies and negotiations. Here, perception itself emerges as technologically and spatially organised: shaped by the devices, infrastructures and conditions that determine what can be perceived, by whom, and from where.

Hac Vinent. [unintelligible]
25.07.–20.09.2026
Studio Space, Salzburger Kunstverein

The interview is in Spanish with German subtitles.
Visit our website to watch the full interview and learn more about the exhibition.

Reel & interview by .agency

We are happy to share new documentation photographs of Hac Vinent’s [unintelligible], currently on view at Salzburger Ku...
19/08/2026

We are happy to share new documentation photographs of Hac Vinent’s [unintelligible], currently on view at Salzburger Kunstverein in the Studio.

Hac Vinent 👄

Working from an anti-ableist and crip-queer perspective, Vinent approaches embodiment as something produced through attachments, technologies, and negotiations rather than possessed in advance. The exhibition insists on the persistence of flesh: its vulnerability, pleasure, instability, and resistance to complete translation into information.

At the centre of the exhibition is the three-channel video installation Hard Persistence, in which the body extends into screens, signals, prostheses, and other bodies. Faces drift through glossy, fleshy environments, while sound moves directionally through the space, asking visitors to reposition themselves and abandon the assumption that perception begins from a universal standpoint.

Hac Vinent. [unintelligible]
25.07.–20.09.2026
Studio Space, Salzburger Kunstverein

Curated by Mirela Baciak.
Photos by .maria.wimmer

STELLENAUSSCHREIBUNGLeitung Technische Produktion und Ausstellungsrealisation / 30 WochenstundenWir suchen eine engagier...
17/08/2026

STELLENAUSSCHREIBUNG

Leitung Technische Produktion und Ausstellungsrealisation / 30 Wochenstunden

Wir suchen eine engagierte, lösungsorientierte und kommunikative Persönlichkeit, die die technische Planung und Realisation unserer Ausstellungen und Veranstaltungen verantwortet.

Die Position verbindet langfristige technische Produktionsplanung, die Koordination von Auf- und Abbau, die Zusammenarbeit mit Künstler:innen und externen Produktionspartner:innen sowie die praktische Umsetzung vor Ort.

Gesucht wird eine Person mit Erfahrung im Ausstellungsaufbau u. Ausstellungsproduktion und mit guten Kenntnissen in Video-, Audio- und Projektionstechnik.

Gehalt: mind. EUR 2.675,25 brutto/Monat bei 30 Wochenstunden gemäß Fair Pay 2026

Arbeitsort: Salzburger Kunstverein

Bewerbungsfrist: 1. Oktober 2026

Bewerbungen mit Lebenslauf und aussagekräftigen Unterlagen bitte an:
[email protected]

Die vollständige Stellenausschreibung und weitere Informationen finden Sie auf unserer Website.

Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Bewerbung & gerne auch aufs Weitersagen und Teilen.

We’re excited to share the documentation photographs of Ryan Gander’s One Hundred Things Twice, a newly commissioned exh...
16/08/2026

We’re excited to share the documentation photographs of Ryan Gander’s One Hundred Things Twice, a newly commissioned exhibition at Salzburger Kunstverein.

Ryan Gander 👯

So, are there really one hundred things?
Yes. And no. The exhibition brings together one hundred things paired with another way of seeing. A thing twice is not necessarily a copy. It might be an echo, a near-match, a front and a back, a beginning and an end.

Gander’s works often begin precisely where certainty starts to fail. One Hundred Things Twice unfolds through slight misalignments and interpretive drift. One thing happened; another almost did. One thing sits before you; another version of it begins to form in memory.

Perhaps less a collection of stable objects than a field of relations between them. Meaning does not belong to the object alone, nor to the artist, nor to the viewer. It circulates between them.

An artwork is no longer only an object placed in space. It becomes the time it takes to notice it, the expectation it interrupts, the behaviour it produces, the other works it calls to mind, and the route one takes towards it and away from it.

Ryan Gander
One Hundred Things Twice
25.07.–20.09.2026
Salzburger Kunstverein

Curated by Mirela Baciak Mirela Baciak
Commissioned and produced by Salzburger Kunstverein.

Photos by kunst-dokumentation.com

A kind reminder that tonight at 20:30 we gather for the second evening of our Lecture Performance Series “The Distributi...
12/08/2026

A kind reminder that tonight at 20:30 we gather for the second evening of our Lecture Performance Series “The Distribution of Luck” 🍀
at Salzburger Kunstverein.

12 August, 20:30
Lecture performances by Filipka Rutkowska filipka rutkowska & Urok Shirhan ᴜʀᴏᴋ • أوروك • Ωρώκ • 🧿❤️🇵🇸

Filipka Rutkowska — Gender Is Over
Drawing on her book Gender Is Over (Hela Press, 2026), Filipka delivers a performative lecture that treats queerness as a gap—a loophole through which a body slips between categories and the official ledgers of who is permitted to count.

Urok Shirhan — I Could Have Been French
A lecture performance about migration, nationality, and the obscene comedy of paperwork. Speculative national selves become a way of asking how luck is manufactured by borders, policies, timing, class, war, and the aftermath of colonialism.

The evening is part of The Distribution of Luck, bringing together four artists exploring love, class, money, and identity through the format of lecture performance.

Curated by Mirela Baciak & Denis Maksimov.
Denis Maksimov Mirela Baciak

Co-produced by Salzburger Kunstverein and the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg Summer Academy of Fine Arts

Tonight, 12 August, 20:30 — everyone is warmly welcome!

Currently in residence with us, Eythar Gubara is a Sudanese visual artist and cinematographer who uses photography and f...
09/08/2026

Currently in residence with us, Eythar Gubara is a Sudanese visual artist and cinematographer who uses photography and film to explore resistance, identity, and human rights.

the art in your eyes

In August and September, we are pleased to host Eythar Gubara. Since 2013, their work has served as a tool for social change, blending activism with striking visual storytelling. They focus on marginalized communities—particularly women and the LGBTQI+ community—challenging oppression and amplifying silenced voices in Sudan and beyond.
Eythar’s transition into cinematography in 2017 allowed them to document resilience and intimacy through both still and moving images. Collaborating with grassroots organizations, they frame art as both a weapon for justice and a sanctuary for visibility. Eythar believes in art’s power to provoke dialogue, demand change, and ignite hope.

Eythar’s artworks have been exhibited in six solo exhibitions in Hamburg and in more than seventeen group exhibitions around the world. Their short films have also been screened at numerous film festivals, including the Hamburg International Short Film Festival.

In 2021, Eythar participated in the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival in France, where they won the Madame Figaro Photography Award.

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