Many exhibitions during the festival season in Salzburg
During the festival season there is traditionally not only musical and performing arts, but also a lot of visual arts in Salzburg. With a presentation on the gallery of the Karl-Böhm-Saal realized in cooperation with the Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, which can be seen by festival guests before the start of the performance and during the breaks, the Salzburg Festival itself is also involved this time. The following is a cursory overview of the range of exhibitions.
The fact that Dante Alighieri’s “Divina Commedia” is at the center of the program for the 2022 festival summer also inspired the Salzburg Festival for its exhibition. On view is an installation featuring a portfolio of offset lithograph facsimiles from the “Inferno” portion of Robert Rauschenberg’s (1925-2008) Dante Cycle, in which the US artist translated Dante’s poem into the visual vernacular of contemporary America . As a counterpoint, “The Flying Komarov” is juxtaposed with the projection of a video work by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, which means “a utopia of bliss, a state of eternal levitation, levitation between heaven and earth, between dream and reality” for the artists. The Kabakovs were born in what is now eastern Ukraine and emigrated to the United States in the 1980s.
The American video artist Bill Viola can be seen in the Museum der Moderne Salzburg on Mönchsberg. It is said that his personal exhibition is the first solo museum presentation in Austria, his visual worlds are immersive spaces of experience that are “convincing in their contemplative balance and overwhelming in their immediate emotionality and visual vehemence”. While new additions and a solo presentation by Richard Kriesche are also being shown on the Mönchsberg, the exhibitions on the artist group “The Ladies” and “Nervous and Evil. ‘Dirt and Trash’ from the Collection” are on display in the old town in the Rupertinum until September 4th. to see.
In addition to Marcel Duchamp and Stephan Balkenhol, gallery owner Thaddaeus Ropac Heuer is counting on the American artist Sean Scully, who was born in Dublin in 1945. His exhibition The Shadow of Figuration, which opens on Saturday (July 23) at Villa Kast, includes large-scale images from series such as Wall of Light and Landline, as well as a selection of works on paper. The monumental sculpture “Indoor Sleeper” can also be seen in the outdoor area of the gallery. Also on Saturday, an exhibition with current works by the 80-year-old Viennese painter Eduard Angeli will open in the Welz Gallery. “Melancholy as the basic mood accompanies his colorful and light-filled pastels”, advertises the gallery, which shows works by other contemporary artists and works of classical modernism on the first floor, “in his pictures one enjoys the moment of inner life.”
“The effects of early Viennese Modernism on the Viennese post-war avant-garde, especially on Viennese Actionism” will be the focus of an exhibition by the Wienerroither & Kohlbacher gallery from July 27 in the rooms of the Catholic university community in the Kollegienkirche. “In particular, the intensive examination of the human body and the physical dimensions of physical and psychological experience are the focus of the works by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Günter Brus and Franz West.” A small special show gilds the Austrian stone sculptor Karl Prantl (1923 – 2010).
Ben Willikens, the former rector of the Munich Art Academy, who was born in Leipzig in 1939 and who had a large Albertina exhibition in the spring, will be presented in the Nikolaus Ruzicska Gallery from Friday, and the painter Franziska Maderthaner will have an exhibition in the Trapp Gallery from July 30th. Galerie Frey will be celebrating its tenth anniversary from July 26 with works by all the artists who have exhibited in Salzburg over the past ten years and are represented by the gallery.
“My One and Only” is the name of the exhibition in the MAM Haus am Ignaz Rieder Kai and in the sculpture garden, curated by Stephan Stoyanov and revolving around the main theme of love in all its facets, under the title “Inspire Me” in the gallery at Residenzplatz “8 Selected Masterpieces” are shown. Entirely, namely “Masterpieces of Art”, is the name of the exhibition at the Graz Reinisch gallery, which is opening a temporary art house on July 25 at Getreidegasse 12. This also includes the Reinisch Art Club, which will open on July 29 with July “Jedermann” Lars Eidinger “as the hottest DJ in Central Europe at the coolest place in town”.
Eidinger also has an exhibition in the city of Mozart. Tomorrow, Friday, he will be opening a selection of his photographs in the Leica Gallery. “Why not give the actor, photographer and DJ Lars Eidinger a Leica M11 and see what comes out of it? We liked the result and as expected: art,” promises the announcement. The title “Black & White Thinking” alludes to the tendency to think in black and white, which “prevents us from seeing the world as it often is: complex, nuanced and full of nuances”, according to the multi-artist. “My pictures are in the tradition of the objet trouvé. That’s how I find the motifs. I don’t stage them or manipulate them. They are omnipresent, but if you close yourself off to them, they remain hidden. I’m interested in the invisible, what is brings behind the illusion, the concealed.”