Art exhibition about war memorials – salzburg.ORF.at
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The Salzburger Kunstverein invites you to the 2022 annual exhibition. Motto: “What’s missing?” It’s also about the emptiness that arises around war memorials in people’s hearts and memories. At the opening, the new award winner Rosa Andraschek was also announced.
The show is taking place in two locations today – in the Künstlerhaus and in the Museum Pavilion of the City of Salzburg.
Large photos capture looking away
The sponsorship award of the Kunstverein, which is administered by the state of Salzburg, is endowed with 3,000 euros. Rosa Andraschek was born in Korneuburg in 1995 and lives and works in Vienna. With her landscape pictures – a series of analogue photographs taken with a medium format camera – she also deals with war memorials.
However, the artist documents the surroundings of the monuments and thus “looking away”, as the saying goes. She wanted to create awareness of the emptiness and the absence of those killed, murdered and displaced in these wars.
Also risk as a theme of art
In thematic areas, the annual exhibition is dedicated to the question of what is missing, explains curator Maximilian Lehner: “A culture of remembrance, places of longing, questions about dealing with empty spaces and experimental approaches where risk is involved, these are some of the focal points of this show.”
The annual exhibition of the Salzburger Kunstverein runs until February 5th – on view in the Künstlerhaus.