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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.

We are content to share documentation photos of Agnes Scherer’s  exhibition “Three Wicked Games” that we are currently p...
03/06/2026

We are content to share documentation photos of Agnes Scherer’s exhibition “Three Wicked Games” that we are currently presenting in the Grand Hall.

In the exhibition context the “wicked” is not theatrical evil, but something recursive, charming, and hard to leave. A realism of the unreal structures that organise contemporary life. What kind of ghost is produced when the soul becomes a consumer profile?

Taking Goya’s Blind Man’s Bluff and El Pelele not as monuments but as starting points, Scherer reads their Rococo scenes of leisure as already charged with blindness, and submission. The exhibition turns these games toward our own present: a world of wellness rituals, crypto speculation, self-optimisation, luxury skincare, smartwatches and all these things that promise agency but produce submission.

Scherer’s figures are embodiments of a society caught in a loop of consuming, optimising, gambling, desiring, and displaying. The question who moves whom, who imagines themselves free, and who is held by a string they cannot see.

The exhibition is commissioned and produced by Salzburger Kunstverein and curated by

Exhibition photos by

We are excited to welcome Nnenna Onuoha as our current artist-in-residence and we are excited about the project she is d...
29/05/2026

We are excited to welcome Nnenna Onuoha as our current artist-in-residence and we are excited about the project she is developing during her stay in Salzburg! 🫶

Nnenna Onuoha is a Ghanaian-Nigerian researcher, filmmaker and visual artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her work, which explores the histories and afterlives of colonialism across Europe, West Africa and the United States, has shown at the Museum Folkwang, the Modern Art Museum Shanghai, and Johannesburg Art Gallery, as well the Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg, and the London Short Film Festival. Nnenna is currently a binational doctoral researcher in Media Anthropology at Harvard University and Global History at the University of Potsdam, as well as a research associate in the Provenance Lab at Leuphana University Lüneburg. During her time in Salzburg she has been developing two installative projects around the digitisation of colonial-era cultural heritage in Lower Saxony.

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♡ Welcome, 𝒪𝓁𝑔𝒶 Hohmann ♡ Our second writer-in-residence in collaboration with  has arrived in Salzburg, and we are very...
28/05/2026

♡ Welcome, 𝒪𝓁𝑔𝒶 Hohmann ♡


Our second writer-in-residence in collaboration with has arrived in Salzburg, and we are very happy to have her with us.

Olga Hohmann writes essays, prose miniatures and meandering texts that are intended to be read aloud. In an almost musical form, she combines more or less fictional narratives with found footage, which combine to form a rhythmic murmur.

She recently performed at Schinkel Pavillon Berlin, Fondation Beyeler, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Julia Stoschek Foundation Düsseldorf, Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster, Kunstverein München, K21 Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Roter Salon Volksbühne Berlin, Archivio Conz and was part of Mangrove Sunset at Martin Groupius Bau Berlin (2023). She also performed in the framework of Texte zur Kunst at Berlin’s Silent Green.

In 2022 The Overview Effect was released in collaboration with Textem Verlag Hamburg. In 2023 she gave her prose debut with Korbinian Verlag Berlin: In deinem rechten Auge wohnt der Teufel. In October 2024 she presented Stressed/Desserts in collaboration with Windpark Verlag Frankfurt.

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♡ Welcome, 𝒪𝓁𝑔𝒶 Hohmann ♡Our second writer-in-residence in collaboration with  has arrived in Salzburg, and we are very ...
28/05/2026

♡ Welcome, 𝒪𝓁𝑔𝒶 Hohmann ♡

Our second writer-in-residence in collaboration with has arrived in Salzburg, and we are very happy to have her with us.

Olga Hohmann writes essays, prose miniatures and meandering texts that are intended to be read aloud. In an almost musical form, she combines more or less fictional narratives with found footage, which combine to form a rhythmic murmur.

She recently performed at Schinkel Pavillon Berlin, Fondation Beyeler, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Julia Stoschek Foundation Düsseldorf, Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster, Kunstverein München, K21 Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Roter Salon Volksbühne Berlin, Archivio Conz and was part of Mangrove Sunset at Martin Groupius Bau Berlin (2023). She also performed in the framework of Texte zur Kunst at Berlin’s Silent Green.

In 2022 The Overview Effect was released in collaboration with Textem Verlag Hamburg. In 2023 she gave her prose debut with Korbinian Verlag Berlin: In deinem rechten Auge wohnt der Teufel. In October 2024 she presented Stressed/Desserts in collaboration with Windpark Verlag Frankfurt.

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Thank you to everyone who joined us last Friday for the opening of Agnes Scherer’s  “Three Wicked Games” and freakygreen...
25/05/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us last Friday for the opening of Agnes Scherer’s “Three Wicked Games” and freakygreenfish’s “Bot-on-Bot Crime: How to Vibe Compute in the Trenches of Memetic Warfare” at Salzburger Kunstverein. It was a truly beautiful evening.

Two exhibitions speaking very different aesthetic languages, yet meeting exactly where contemporary reality starts to glitch; between algorithm and propaganda, myth and memetic warfare.

The exhibitions are now up and running until July 12.

Come back and linger longer.

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Opening Reminder Friday 22.05.202620:00Followed by DJ Set by Mr. & Mrs. Awesome
16/05/2026

Opening Reminder



Friday 22.05.2026
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Followed by DJ Set by Mr. & Mrs. Awesome

Opening Reminder 22.05.2026 20:00Followed by DJ Set by “Mr. & Mrs. Awesome”
16/05/2026

Opening Reminder



22.05.2026 20:00

Followed by DJ Set by “Mr. & Mrs. Awesome”

🔜 freakygreenfish Bot On Bot Crime: How to Vibe Compute Reality in the Trenches of Memetic Warfare23.05.–12.07.2026Studi...
12/05/2026

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freakygreenfish
Bot On Bot Crime: How to Vibe Compute Reality in the Trenches of Memetic Warfare
23.05.–12.07.2026
Studio Space

freakygreenfish’s exhibition initially appears to the viewer as a spatial translation of the social media sphere—a walkable platform—quickly reveals itself as an environment organized by the logics of computational propagation. Bot on Bot Crime... is built on and from mechanisms of circulation and control.

The installation unfolds as a system in which short-form videos are produced and simultaneously posted on TikTok. In this sense, the work aligns with an understanding of automated agents as infrastructural forces: entities that do not replace human actors but modulate their visibility, accelerate their reach, and recalibrate the thresholds of relevance.

The exhibition acknowledges a field already saturated with automated influence, where reactionary and opportunistic actors have optimized the system for speed, repetition, and affective triggers. freakygreenfish’s proposition is to test whether it can be rerouted.

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freakygreenfishs Ausstellung erscheint den Besucher:innen zunächst als räumliche Übersetzung der Social-Media-Sphäre – als begehbare Plattform. Schnell jedoch zeigt sich die Arbeit als eine Umgebung, die von den Logiken computergestützter Verbreitung geprägt ist. Bot On Bot Crime basiert auf Mechanismen der Zirkulation und Kontrolle.

Die Installation entfaltet sich als System, in dem Kurzvideos produziert und zugleich auf TikTok veröffentlicht werden. Die Arbeit versteht automatisierte Akteur:innen dabei als infrastrukturelle Kräfte: nicht als Ersatz für menschliche Akteur:innen, sondern als Entitäten, die Sichtbarkeit modulieren und die Schwellen von Relevanz neu justieren.

Die Ausstellung reagiert auf ein Feld, das längst von automatisiertem Einfluss durchdrungen ist – ein Feld, in dem reaktionäre und opportunistische Akteur:innen die Logiken von Geschwindigkeit, Wiederholung und affektiver Aktivierung bereits für sich optimiert haben. freakygreenfishs Vorschlag besteht darin, zu erproben, ob sich diese Mechanismen umlenken lassen.

curated by

🔜 ᗩGᑎEᔕ ᔕᑕᕼEᖇEᖇ — TᕼᖇEE ᗯIᑕKEᗪ GᗩᗰEᔕAgnes Scherer’s Three Wicked Games begins with Francisco Goya and drifts sideways in...
11/05/2026

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ᗩGᑎEᔕ ᔕᑕᕼEᖇEᖇ — TᕼᖇEE ᗯIᑕKEᗪ GᗩᗰEᔕ

Agnes Scherer’s Three Wicked Games begins with Francisco Goya and drifts sideways into the present: into games, rituals, dependencies, and the strange choreographies through which society performs itself.

Departing from Goya’s “Blind Man’s Bluff” and “The Straw Manikin”, Scherer recognises in these folk games a structure that feels uncannily contemporary. Someone is blind, someone is thrown, someone laughs, and someone waits for their turn. Power circulates as play. Violence appears as entertainment.

In the Grand Hall, Scherer translates Goya’s compositions into a ghostly puppet-theatre, emptying the figures of their bodily fullness and replacing historical coherence with a more fragile, contemporary condition: life under late capitalism, shaped by transactions, dependencies, and rules we did not write but continue to perform.

Opening: 22.05.2026
Exhibition: 23.05.–12.07.2026
Grand Hall, Salzburger Kunstverein

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Agnes Scherers Three Wicked Games beginnt bei Francisco Goya und driftet seitwärts in die Gegenwart: in Spiele, Rituale, Abhängigkeiten und jene seltsamen Choreografien, durch die Gesellschaft sich selbst aufführt.

Ausgehend von Goyas Blind Man’s Bluff und The Straw Manikin erkennt Scherer in diesen Volksspielen eine Struktur, die unheimlich zeitgenössisch wirkt. Jemand ist blind, jemand wird geworfen, jemand lacht, und jemand wartet, bis er an der Reihe ist. Macht zirkuliert als Spiel. Gewalt erscheint als Unterhaltung.

In der Großen Halle übersetzt Scherer Goyas Kompositionen in ein geisterhaftes Puppentheater, entleert die Figuren ihrer körperlichen Fülle und ersetzt historische Kohärenz durch einen fragileren, gegenwärtigen Zustand: ein Leben im Spätkapitalismus, geprägt von Transaktionen, Abhängigkeiten und Regeln, die wir nicht geschrieben haben, aber weiterhin aufführen.

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Artist: Agnes Scherer
Curated by Mirela Baciak
Commissioned and produced by Salzburger Kunstverein.

Ahead of the opening of the Venice Biennale, our thoughts are with ᗩᒪIᑎE ᗷOᑌᐯY, who is representing Luxembourg with ᒪᗩ ᗰ...
29/04/2026

Ahead of the opening of the Venice Biennale, our thoughts are with ᗩᒪIᑎE ᗷOᑌᐯY, who is representing Luxembourg with ᒪᗩ ᗰEᖇᗪE.

We are especially proud that Aline’s new video work for the Luxembourg pavilion has been co-produced by Salzburger Kunstverein, alongside an exciting forthcoming publication, about which we will share more very soon.

Dear Aline, we are wishing you all the very best for Venice. We cannot wait to welcome you to Salzburger Kunstverein in December ❤️

A warm shout-out to all the incredible people who made the Luxembourg Pavilion possible: curator Stilbé Schroeder .s our colleagues at Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain Kultur | lx escautville, and the entire team behind this ambitious project.

Here is a small behind-the-scenes glimpse from La M***e, Aline Bouvy’s cinematographic essay, presented as an immersive audiovisual installation at the Luxembourg Pavilion from next week onwards!

Luxembourg Pavilion
La M***e


09.05–22.11.2026
Arsenale, Sale d’Armi, 1st Floor


Commissioner:
Curated by Stilbé Schroeder .s | Casino Luxembourg — Forum d’art contemporain

Film co-produced by Casino Luxembourg − Forum d’art contemporain, escautville , and Salzburger Kunstverein

In Salzburg, from 12. or 19.12.2026 🙃 in a site-specific version 😉

📸 Photo 1 Aline Bouvy © Ernest Thiesmeier, 2025
📸 Photos 3,4,5 © Hugo Boutry

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