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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.

06/10/2026

A very warm welcome to our new resident, curator and art historian Alberta Romano Alberta Romano

Today at 6:00 PM, Alberta invites you to join her in her studio number 20 for “The Politics of Intimacy – What We Keep, What We Share” a talk exploring personal and family archives,
with special guest Benedetta Fioravanti.

Please come by—we look forward to welcoming you!

Alberta Romano is the coordinator of YCRP27 by Fondazione Sandretto Re and, since 2024, has been responsible for the public programme at Madre museum in Naples. From 2019 to 2024, she worked as a curator at Kunsthalle Lissabon in Lisbon, where she curated the exhibition and public programmes and contributed to the development of the institution’s education department. Winner of the 14th edition of the Italian Council with the project Kinship and Archive: From Private Narratives to Public Discourse Through Amateur Archives, her curatorial research focuses on artistic practices that engage with social questions through interdisciplinary approaches. Recurring interests in her research include archives, popular and mass culture, television and, more broadly, the reading of society through individual habits.

04/10/2026

Thank you so much for coming, for staying, and for making our double opening on Friday such a generous evening.

We opened HER, the 2026 Members’ Exhibition curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini, alongside Peter Schreiner’s Cabinet fluidifié—and launched our new Appendix Space downstairs.

We thank the artists Philippe Batka, Jakob Buchner, Olivia Erlanger, Renate Hausenblas, Sarah Mühlbacher, Maria Nalbantova, Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino and Julian Siffert & Peter Schreiner.

Both exhibitions are now open through 22 November 2026. Come and see them.

We also warmly congratulate Saffi Adler , winner of this year’s Art Development Award. We look forward to presenting her solo exhibition next year.

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01/10/2026

Another gentle reminder: tomorrow we are also opening Peter Schreiner. “Cabinet fluidifié”

We are very excited to welcome you to this new exhibition in our Studio. During the evening, we will also reveal the winner of this year’s Artist Development Award.

Stay tuned—and join us tomorrow, Friday, 2 October, at 8 PM!

Peter Schreiner. Cabinet fluidifié
3 October–22 November 2026
Curated by Mirela Baciak

01/10/2026

Reminder 🔔
Opening tomorrow at Salzburger Kunstverein:

HER

With works by Philippe Batka, Jakob Buchner, Olivia Erlanger, Renate Hausenblas, Sarah Mühlbacher, Maria Nalbantova, Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino and Julian Siffert.

Curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini.

8:00 PM
Opening

9:00 PM
Performance by Julian Siffert

10:00 PM
Playlist in the new Appendix

Saturday, 03 October, 7:00 PM & 9:00 PM
Guided tours during the Long Night of Museums.

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28/09/2026

𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨: 𝙥𝙝𝙤𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙤𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙎𝙖𝙡𝙯𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙜

What do we choose to keep — and what do our family archives tell about the place we live in?

People living in Salzburg are invited to open their personal archives and share photographs, home movies and documents connected to the city: everyday moments, transformations, events and memories that might tell another side of its social and cultural history.

Selected materials will become part of “The Politics of Intimacy – What We Keep, What We Share”, a public event at the Salzburg Kunstverein within Alberta Romano’s research project “Kinship and Archive: From Private Narratives to Public Discourse Through Amateur Archives” granted by DG Creatività Contemporanea MiC of the Italian Ministry of Culture - under the program (2025).

Alberta Romano

Alberta Romano is currently curator-and-researcher-in-residence at Salzburger Kunstverein.

📷 Photographs · 🎞 Home movies (digitalized) · 💌 Letters, postcards & documents
Deadline October 3, 2026
Submissions: [email protected]

Image credit: Fondazione Home Movies – National Family Film Archive, Vanda Legnami Collection. Salzburg, 1969, 8mm (HM-LEGNVAN-0023)

19/09/2026

Last day of Hac Vinent “unintelligible” 👀

“The supposedly complete, autonomous, and universally capable body has always been an exclusionary fiction. It is built around a normative subject whose modes of communication are treated as self-evident. Hard Persistence proposes embodiment as something produced through attachments and negotiations rather than possessed in advance. Vinent is deaf. Although the installation employs ambient sound, its sonic field is structured through low frequencies that they can perceive with their hearing prosthesis. Sound travels from different directions, moving between the three screens and refusing a stable point of origin. Hearing is therefore not presented as a ‘‘natural‘‘ and universal capacity, but as a technologically and spatially organised relation. “

Excerpt from a curatorial text. Mirela Baciak

18/09/2026

Reminder: Neue Gastronomie im Künstlerhaus gesucht! 👁️🙀

Der Salzburger Kunstverein sucht ab 1. Jänner 2027 (oder früher) neue Pächter:innen für das Café | Bistro im Künstlerhaus.

Direkt an der Salzach und nur wenige Minuten von der Altstadt entfernt. Zur Verfügung stehen eine vollständig ausgestattete Küche, ein möblierter Gastraum und eine großzügige Terrasse direkt am Wasser.

Wir suchen ein kreatives und erfahrenes Team (gerne auch ein Gastronom:innenpaar) mit einer eigenständigen gastronomischen und konzeptuellen Idee, die den besonderen Kontext des Künstlerhauses aufgreift.

Gemeinsam möchten wir einen lebendigen und offenen Treffpunkt für Künstler:innen, Besucher:innen, Nachbar:innen, Tourist:innen und die Salzburger Stadtgesellschaft schaffen.

Die wichtigsten Eckdaten:

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

Neugierig geworden?

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! 👁️🙀

18/09/2026

Only three days left to see again

𝙾𝚗𝚎 𝙷𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚃𝚠𝚒𝚌𝚎　　　

by Ryan Gander

“Classical logic tells us that everything must either be or not be. A body is here, or it is there. A statement is true, or it is false. Yet Gander’s practice has long been invested in precisely those situations in which such certainty begins to fail. His works often operate in the brief delay before meaning settles. They ask what happens when the thing refuses to be exhausted by one description.

In quantum theory, an object can technically exist in more than one state at once. Something similar happens in One Hundred Things Twice. A thing twice is not a copy. It may be an echo, a ghost, a front and a back, a left and a right, a beginning and an end. One thing happened; another almost did. One thing sits before you; another version of it begins to form in memory. The exhibition is thus less a collection of stable things than a field of relations between them.

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There is no divine position from which everything is visible at once. And perhaps this is where Gander’s exhibition becomes unexpectedly egalitarian. If every thing contains the idea of another possible thing, if every world is accompanied by the world that could have happened, then no single reality can claim absolute authority over the others. “

Excerpt from the curatorial text by Mirela Baciak

15/09/2026

Concurrently to the Annual Exhibition 2026, we present the work of Peter Schreiner, the winner of the 2025 Artist Development Award of Salzburger Kunstverein.

The more technology promises to make the world visible, measurable and knowable, the more insistently something seems to escape it. Cabinet fluidifié looks at the strange historical intimacy between technology and the spiritualist, and the strange fact that every apparatus we invent to make more of the world visible or knowable also leaves something outside its grasp.

The exhibition references two moments of radical technological change: the industrialisation of the nineteenth century and our contemporary age of artificial intelligence. In the nineteenth century, as science increasingly sought to measure, classify and explain the world, spiritists turned to the very same technologies to photograph ghosts, record invisible forces and even capture thoughts or the human soul. Today, machines again promise new ways of seeing and knowing, but AI not only records what is there: it reconfigures. Cabinet fluidifié connects these two moments to ask what happens to the invisible when technology attempts to capture it, and what continues to escape.

To capture is not an innocent verb. In the context of photography, once a phenomenon has entered an image, it can be stored, reproduced, compared, circulated, classified and owned. Photography has always promised preservation, but preservation is also a form of domestication. The ghost on the photographic plate has acquired dimensions, an inventory number, perhaps an AI-generated caption.

Curated by Mirela Baciak.
Mirela Baciak

13/09/2026

The 2026 members’ exhibition is guest-curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini, who conceived a thematic showcase selected through an open call under the title HER.

Questioning the role of technology in shaping and defining our sense of self, as well as our relationships with others, HER frames the human as an imperfect, imaginary, sensory and embodied being: both an agent and an accomplice of power and its structures.

Spike Jonze’s tech drama Her (2013) depicts a romance between a man and his operating system. Set in the near future, Her captures Obama-era techno-optimism perhaps better than any other film. It is a time capsule, preserving dreams of progress that can now appear almost naive. Situated in a utopian near-future Los Angeles, an urban landscape untouched by wildfires, harsh immigration policies or economic crisis, the film was among the first to represent AI as an intimate, charming companion. Questions of how these technologies are made, for whom, and which biases they reproduce remain largely absent.

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OPENING:
02 October, 8:00 PM
9:00 PM Performance by Julian Siffert Julian Siffert

Artists: Philippe Batka, Jakob Buchner, Olivia Erlanger, Renate Hausenblas, Sarah Mühlbacher, Maria Nalbantova, Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino, Julian Siffert

Curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini.

Adresse

Hellbrunner Str. 3
Salzburg
5020

Öffnungszeiten

Dienstag	12:00 - 19:00
Mittwoch	12:00 - 19:00
Donnerstag	12:00 - 19:00
Freitag	12:00 - 19:00
Samstag	12:00 - 19:00
Sonntag	12:00 - 19:00

Telefon

+436628422940

Website

http://www.salzburger-kunstverein.at/

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